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

[Nefi Munoz]

Hi Johnathan,  

You're welcome, and thank you for submitting the bug !!  You beat me to it.  I'll add myself to CC list.

Regards,

- Nefi M. 


> 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