[openstack-dev] [Fuel] Wiping node's disks on delete

Alexander Gordeev agordeev at mirantis.com
Thu Mar 24 11:13:43 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Dmitry Guryanov <dguryanov at mirantis.com>
wrote:

>
> I have no objections against clearing bios boot partition, but could
> you describe scenario, how non-efi system will boot with valid
> BIOS_grub and wiped boot code in MBR
>


I thoroughly agree that it's impossible to boot without stage1 from the
disk for non-uefi system. Besides, it doesn't mean what we shouldn't wipe
dedicated BIOS_grub partition.

But... How about network booting over PXE? I'm not quire sure if it's still
technically possible. I read that stage1 just contains of LBA48 pointer to
the stage1.5 or stage2. So, i can imagine a case when somebody has tweaked
PXE loader so it will be jumping to predefined LBA48 pointer where
stage1.5/2 resides absolutely bypassing stage1.

I knew that partitioning layout for the first 2 partitions is always the
same for all target nodes. The actual value of the partitioning boundaries
may slightly vary due to partition boundaries alignment depending on the
h/w itself. If all nodes were equipped with the identical h/w (which is
almost true for real deployments), then BIOS_grub partition resides under
the same LBA48 pointer for all nodes. So, even it may be sounded too tricky
and requires a lot of manual steps, but it's still possible. No? Did I miss
something?
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