[sles-beta] multipath SAN and PXE boot with SLES 12 beta 7

[Johnathan Wong (johnawon)]

Hi Nefi,

Thanks for confirming this issue. I just filed bugzilla 881144 for this particular SAN Boot issue.   


-john

-----Original Message-----
From: Nefi Munoz [mailto:nmunoz at suse.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 11:06 AM
To: Johnathan Wong (johnawon); sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] multipath SAN and PXE boot with SLES 12 beta 7

Hi,

I was able to install (via DVD) SLES 12 Beta 7 with a LUN as the only HD on the server and boot from it.  I enabled multipath when it prompted me to during install.

However, my first attempt failed to boot with a generic message like "something failed during installation" I believe what caused the problem is that in partitioning screen I clicked on advanced and created a new partition table (which deleted the proposed partitions) then I manually created my own partitions and for some reason the installer didn't actually create the partitions or something went wrong during creation process.

Also, I have installed Beta 7 via pxe (uefi), but not on a server connected to a SAN.

# /sbin/multipath -ll
3600a0b800039c416000002294ad3521b dm-0 IBM,1726-4xx  FAStT size=231G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 rdac' wp=rw
|-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=6 status=active
| |- 0:0:2:0 sdc 8:32 active ready running
| `- 0:0:3:0 sdd 8:48 active ready running
`-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
  |- 0:0:0:0 sda 8:0  active ghost running
  `- 0:0:1:0 sdb 8:16 active ghost running

Regards,

- Nefi M.


> Has anyone able to SAN and/or PXE boot with SLES 12 beta 7?
> 
> 
> 
> -john