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hallowed-zebra-34071
03/28/2023, 4:05 AMtrying to get harvester on a node that will pxe boot 100% of the time (or can lay down a disk image). I don't think harvester supports this deployment method
right now the system is in a reboot/install loop, re-installing constantly...
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chilly-soccer-69887
03/28/2023, 4:16 AMharvester can use pxe boot for sure, can you provide more specific detail about your environment?
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hallowed-zebra-34071
03/28/2023, 4:35 AMsure, I have the node installing from pxe just fine. my problem is that after install the node will reboot (as is normal) and then pxe boot to the installer again (and again)
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my env is a openstack-ironic deploy, it's expecting to either always pxe boot or to pxe boot once and lay down an image to disk (raw disk image or qcow2)
having harvester pxe boot to it's own installer is kinda out of scope
I think the two products / tech just do not work well together 😞 I'd like to use ironic to manage nodes DC wide if I can
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chilly-soccer-69887
03/28/2023, 6:19 AMcan you check this node's boot order? maybe network card has overrided hard drive?
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hallowed-zebra-34071
03/28/2023, 2:16 PMnetwork card does take priority, I was trying to get the node booted without manual intervention (selecting pxe boot from bios)
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chilly-soccer-69887
03/29/2023, 12:47 AMI'm not very familiar with openstack though, when using seeder, which is a tool that automatically manages and provisions harvester cluster on baremetal machines, it will serve PXE boot only once, after harvester installed the nic will not boot up since the PXE server stopped serving them
Maybe you can check out how openstack-ironic manages PXE server🤔 they should not boot up with nic again if you finished installation
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hallowed-zebra-34071
03/29/2023, 1:08 AMthere are two ways that openstack ironic boots servers.
One is direct, where it will boot the 'ironic python agent (installer) and write a disk image to disk, it'll do this just once then boot from disk. I don't think this fit's harvesters model til that pull request I linked is available (provides disk images).
The other is ramdisk, this method always boots the pxe image, this half fits harvesters model. but since it's always boots the pxe image it'll constantly reinstall.
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red-king-19196
04/10/2023, 4:03 PMJust came across this thread …
If I recall correctly, Ironic will use something like
ipmitool chassis bootdev pxeh
hallowed-zebra-34071
04/10/2023, 4:24 PMya, I'm watching that pull request, can't wait to have a qcow2 file to install instead
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