When I deploy Rocky 8.9 image (withjout any modifications) on DL325G11 server it gets into grub timeout.
The first ephemeral boot goes fine, completeing the partitioning and image uncompress.
Second boot goes fine as well and the machine reboots after the relabeling.
Third boot the machine performs network boot, throws a bunch of messages and retrys a network boot, when this time it stuck on “Fetching Netboot Image” for a few minutes, until it timeouts to “grub>” prompt.
If I exit the prompt otr even manually reboot the machine the deploy finishes successfully.
I have the .ilo console record file to share.
The last entry in log is fetching the “bootx64.efi” file.
I suspect that chainloading local boot not working for some reason.
Please help wit this issue.
Attached timeouted grub prompt:
Is this consistent every time you try to deploy that server? Do you have issue just with this specific server type?
In general if the machine is trying to PXE even if it’s already deployed MAAS should provide a grub config that instructs the machine to boot from the disk. You can try to take a tcpdump to better understand what’s going on (or look at the rack logs)
Yes, it’s consistent with Rocky based OSes.
What should I look for in the logs?
As far as I understand this (3rd) boot the machine should boot localy ether from “rocky” UEFI entry or from local drive.
And looks like the machine failes to boot from network and instead of booting the local drive retrys the network uefi boot.
Prior the “Fetching Netboot Image” fallowed by timeout I see the following:
Can you manually instruct UEFI to boot from the disk and then you ‘ls /efi/‘? What’s the output?
In what stage?
As I mentioned, once the boot timeouts to grub I can somply exit it and the local boot continues.
Please instruct me what exacly should I do.
Just make it boot from the disk after deployment and execute ‘ls /efi’ after you login
[root@srv-33-03 ~]# ls /efi
ls: cannot access '/efi': No such file or directory
[root@srv-33-03 ~]#
And /boot/efi
[root@srv-33-03 ~]# ls /boot/efi
EFI