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  • Raptor Talos boot issues with Debian image

    From Simon Josefsson@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 16 13:00:02 2021
    Hi. I'm having trouble booting the Debian netinst ISO images on a Talos
    II Lite mainboard. It shows up in petitboot, but selecting 'Default
    install' results in the usual output 'SIGTERM received, booting...'
    (from petitboot?) output and then nothing happens. Both Ubuntu 20.04
    and Fedora 34 images works fine. Any ideas on how to debug this
    further?

    I'm using https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/ppc64el/iso-cd/debian-11.1.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso
    and have verified SHA256 checksum, and tested several USB sticks as well
    as OpenBMC virtual media. I have tried the 11.0 and some 10.x images
    too.

    /Simon

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  • From Simon Josefsson@21:1/5 to Simon Josefsson on Sun Oct 17 21:40:02 2021
    Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

    Hi. I'm having trouble booting the Debian netinst ISO images on a Talos
    II Lite mainboard. It shows up in petitboot, but selecting 'Default
    install' results in the usual output 'SIGTERM received, booting...'
    (from petitboot?) output and then nothing happens. Both Ubuntu 20.04
    and Fedora 34 images works fine. Any ideas on how to debug this
    further?

    Following up to myself: the issue was that the Debian netinst image only
    output things to the serial port, and not to the VGA port that I used.
    Both Ubuntu and Fedora output to VGA, so I was surprised to see
    different behaviour with Debian. Could Debian be made to output to both
    serial and VGA by default? Just an idea.

    /Simon

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  • From Anatoly Pugachev@21:1/5 to simon@josefsson.org on Mon Oct 18 10:40:02 2021
    On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 10:36 PM Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:

    Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:

    Hi. I'm having trouble booting the Debian netinst ISO images on a Talos
    II Lite mainboard. It shows up in petitboot, but selecting 'Default install' results in the usual output 'SIGTERM received, booting...'
    (from petitboot?) output and then nothing happens. Both Ubuntu 20.04
    and Fedora 34 images works fine. Any ideas on how to debug this
    further?

    Following up to myself: the issue was that the Debian netinst image only output things to the serial port, and not to the VGA port that I used.
    Both Ubuntu and Fedora output to VGA, so I was surprised to see
    different behaviour with Debian. Could Debian be made to output to both serial and VGA by default? Just an idea.

    I wonder if it is just Ubuntu patches or differences in software
    versions provided...

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  • From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Anatoly Pugachev on Mon Oct 18 10:40:03 2021
    On 10/18/21 10:34, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
    Following up to myself: the issue was that the Debian netinst image only
    output things to the serial port, and not to the VGA port that I used.
    Both Ubuntu and Fedora output to VGA, so I was surprised to see
    different behaviour with Debian. Could Debian be made to output to both
    serial and VGA by default? Just an idea.

    I wonder if it is just Ubuntu patches or differences in software
    versions provided...

    I would guess Simon is not using debian-installer on Ubuntu but their new, custom installer.

    Adrian

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  • From aliasarmor@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 30 08:10:01 2021
    Somebody on the rcs wiki was able to get Bullseye 11.1 installed, they mentioned the installer going only to serial but did not elaborate on
    the solution they used. <https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List>


    <div id="geary-body" dir="auto"><div><div>Somebody on the rcs wiki was able to get Bullseye 11.1 installed, they mentioned the installer going only to serial but did not elaborate on the solution they used.</div><div><a href="https://wiki.raptorcs.com/
    wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List">https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List</a></div></div></div>

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  • From Simon Josefsson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 6 22:00:02 2022
    ons 2021-12-29 klockan 20:50 -0500 skrev aliasarmor:
    Somebody on the rcs wiki was able to get Bullseye 11.1 installed,
    they mentioned the installer going only to serial but did not
    elaborate on the solution they used. https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List

    Hi. That was me -- I should have clarified: I used the serial port
    interface over the web interface to the BMC to install Debian. Once
    installed, Debian is shown nicely on the VGA output and works fine. It
    is just the installer that doesn't show anything on VGA.

    /Simon


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  • From lkcl@21:1/5 to Simon Josefsson on Thu Jan 6 22:40:02 2022
    On January 6, 2022 8:34:41 PM UTC, Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:

    Hi. That was me -- I should have clarified: I used the serial port
    interface over the web interface to the BMC to install Debian.

    this sounds very familiar, when i remote-booted a TALOS II, 2 years ago. i was able to upload the ppc64 netinst ISO entirely over the BMC web interface, and even managed to hand-load some of the udebs after debian-installer partly failed to proceed, by
    running an emergency shell prompt.

    it was all quite hairy but got there in the end.

    l.

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