Instances provisioned with boot_option as 'local' doesn't boot

[Ramakrishnan G (rameshg87)]

Instances booted with boot_option as 'local' doesn't boot eventhough grub is available in the installed image. On reboot after the installation, BIOS throws the error "non system disk or disk error" and doesn't attempt to boot from hard disk.

[Ramakrishnan G (rameshg87) (rameshg87)]

This is found to be an issue in the HP Proliant system in which I was trying out a localboot. The BIOS doesn't recognise the disk as bootable unless atleast one partition is active. The solution is set make root partition as active (bootable).

[Ramakrishnan G (rameshg87) (rameshg87)]

This is reported to problem with some bios.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/80304/PL
http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/6415

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/156587

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/156587
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic/commit/?id=dedb425770a6f91a54e990159843ac201dc2f1a5
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit dedb425770a6f91a54e990159843ac201dc2f1a5
Author: Ramakrishnan G <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Feb 23 12:07:54 2015 +0000

    Root partition should be bootable for localboot

    When instance are booted with 'boot_option' as 'local', Ironic
    installs boot loader (that is present within the image) and then
    makes the machine to boot from disk. This will fail on some BIOS
    if the root partition is not marked as bootable. This commit marks
    root partition as bootable when boot_option is 'local'.

    Change-Id: Ic88b4dda2d73be54fde5046f85356aba641a0fbe
    Closes-Bug: 1422721