To make the AARCH64 ipxe process work using bifrost, I had to
git clone https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe.git cd ipxe/src/ make bin-arm64-efi/snponly.efi ARCH=arm64 sudo cp bin-arm64-efi/snponly.efi /var/lib/tftpboot/ipxe.efi |
This works for the Ampere reference implementation servers that use a Mellanox network interface card, which supports (only) snp.
(With apologies to Bergman and Legrand)
I need to modify how the ipxe container mounts directories. Why? AARCH64 iPXE stuff. Specifically, I need to get my own version of a file into the directory that a container mounts when it is running. How do I do that? I don’t know yet, so I am going to look.
Continue readingFor the past week I worked on getting a Ironic standalone to run on an Ampere AltraMax server in our lab. As I recently was able to get a baremetal node to boot, I wanted to record the steps I went through.
Continue readingWhen PXE Booting an AARCH64 server, the above message probably means that you are fetching an x86_64 image for iPXE, not ARM64. Here’s how I debugged it.
Continue readingSometime your shell scripts get out of control. Sometimes you are proud of them. Sometimes….both.
I need to be able to re-add a bunch of nodes to an OpenStack cluster on a regular basis. Yes, I could do this with Ansible, but, well, Ansible is great for doing something via SSH, and this just needs to be done here and now. So shell is fine.
This started as a one liner, and got a bit bigger.
Continue readingAmpere Computing chips run the ARM64 instruction set. My laptop is a Dell running x86_64. In order to edit locally, but build remotely, I make use of servers in our datacenter. These are the steps I am taking.
Continue readingOne of our ironic baremetal nodes was suffering a cleaing failure. Fixing it was easy…once we knew the cause/
Continue readingSome custom jq for RegEx selection of OpenStack Ironic baremetal nodes. Our Server types show up in their names. I want to be able to build lists of only the Mt. Jade Servers, which have names that look like this:
jade09-r097
openstack baremetal node list --sort provision_state:asc -c UUID -c Name -f json | jq '.[] | select(.Name | test("jade."))' |
While I tend to think about the nodes in OpenStack term, the people that physically move the servers around are more familiar with their IPMI address. We have several nodes that are not responding to IPMI requests. Some have been put into the manageable state, some are in error.
Here’s the query I used to list them.
If an OpenStack server (Ironic or Nova) has an error, it shows up in a nested field. That field is hard to read in its normal layout, due to JSON formatting. Using jq to strip the formatting helps a bunch
The nested field is fault.details.
The -r option strips off the quotes.
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