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closedcoordination #161414: [epic] Improved salt based infrastructure management
Extend iPXE in qe/oqa.*.suse.org to also display on local console size:S
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Description
Motivation¶
While working on qamaster okurz realized that the iPXE boot menu includes boot parameters like console=ttyS1 to show content on a serial terminal which is also accessible over IPMI SoL but then a locally connected display as well as KVMViewer display does not show useful console content. iPXE should also display on local console, e.g. add console=tty0 console=ttyS1 to display also something on local screen, not just remotely
Acceptance criteria¶
- AC1: qamaster and other machines show kernel boot logs + a login prompt on both local console as well as IPMI SoL
Suggestions¶
- Compare to boot parameters we set for machines in salt, e.g. https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/blob/master/openqa/worker.sls#L10
- Extend iPXE configuration in the according code, possibly https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/tree/master/ipxe, e.g. see
https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/ipxe/menu.ipxe#L44 -
https://github.com/os-autoinst/scripts/blob/master/ipxe/menu.ipxe#L56 is already using
console=tty. Just put that everywhere else - Ensure the solution is deployed to our iPXE hosts which are probably multiple by now, e.g. qa-jump.qe.nue2.suse.org and netboot.qe.prg2.suse.org
- Semi-related: https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa/-/merge_requests/1037
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| ipxe-boot.mp4 (253 KB) ipxe-boot.mp4 | |||
| ipxe-boot.mp4 (4.48 MB) ipxe-boot.mp4 |
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