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On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 3:25 PM Oliver Weinmann <oliver.weinmann at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I already asked this question on serverfault. But I guess here is a better
> place.
>
> I have a very ancient hardware with a MPTSAS controller. I use this for
> TripleO deployment testing. With the release of Ussuri which is running
> CentOS8, I can no longer provision my overcloud nodes as the MPTSAS driver
> has been removed in CentOS8:
>
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/CentOS/comments/d93unk/centos8_and_removal_mpt2sas_dell_sas_drivers/
>
> I managed to include the driver provided from ELrepo in the introspection
> image but It is not loaded automatically:
>
> All commands are run as user "stack".
>
> Extract the introspection image:
>
> cd ~
> mkdir imagesnew
> cd imagesnew
> tar xvf ../ironic-python-agent.tar
> mkdir ~/ipa-tmp
> cd ~/ipa-tmp
> /usr/lib/dracut/skipcpio ~/imagesnew/ironic-python-agent.initramfs | zcat
> | cpio -ivd | pax -r
>
> Extract the contents of the mptsas driver rpm:
>
> rpm2cpio ~/kmod-mptsas-3.04.20-3.el8_2.elrepo.x86_64.rpm | pax -r
>
> Put the kernel module in the right places. To figure out where the module
> has to reside I installed the rpm on a already deployed node and used find
> to locate it.
>
> xz -c ./usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/mptsas/mptsas.ko >
> ./usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/kernel/drivers/message/fusion/mptsas.ko.xz
> mkdir ./usr/lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/mptsas
> sudo ln -sf /lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/mptsas/mptsas.ko
> lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/mptsas.ko
> sudo chown root . -R
> find . 2>/dev/null | sudo cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -8  >
> ~/images/ironic-python-agent.initramfs
>
> Upload the new image
>
> cd ~/images
> openstack overcloud image upload --update-existing --image-path
> /home/stack/images/
>
> Now when I start the introspection and ssh into the host I see no disks:
>
> [root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
> [root at localhost ~]# lsmod | grep mptsas
>
> Once i manually load the driver, I can see the disks:
>
>
> [root at localhost ~]# modprobe mptsas
> [root at localhost ~]# lsmod | grep mptsas
> mptsas                 69632  0
> mptscsih               45056  1 mptsas
> mptbase                98304  2 mptsas,mptscsih
> scsi_transport_sas     45056  1 mptsas
> [root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/sda: 67.1 GiB, 71999422464 bytes, 140623872 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>
> But how can I make it so that it will automatically load on boot?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Oliver
>

I guess you could try using modules-load to load the module at boot.

> sudo ln -sf /lib/modules/4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64/extra/mptsas/mptsas.ko
lib/modules/4.18.0-193.6.3.el8_2.x86_64/weak-updates/mptsas.ko
echo "mptsas" > ./etc/modules-load.d/mptsas.conf
> sudo chown root . -R

Also I would have a look see at these docs to build an image using ipa
builder
https://docs.openstack.org/ironic-python-agent-builder/latest/
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