Support arm-storm on HP Moonshot m400

[David Lawson]

Trying to auto-enlist an m400 cartridge on maas 2.3 fails because, it appears, MaaS can't detect what architecture it is and serve the correct bootloader.

Using NIC1 device
TFTP from server 10.189.128.2; our IP address is 10.189.131.5
Filename 'pxelinux.cfg/default-arm-storm'.
Load address: 0x4000800000
Loading: *
TFTP error: '(b'UNHANDLED', 'Unknown Error [spoink:pid=20874:cmd=GetBootConfig:ask=1d0]')' (0)
Starting again

Enlisting the cartridge by hand and setting the architecture to arm64/xgene-uboot allows the node to PXE and commission.

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Hi David,

Ok, so can you please provide logs? Also, have you imported all arm images ? Is this arm64 or xgene-uboot ? Hasn't xgene-uboot been dropped already?

[David Lawson (deej)]

I've no idea frankly, it certainly still exists in the architecture dropdown of the MaaS UI. We're importing all arm64 images. Which logs would you like?

Here's the boot-source-selections list:

$ maas maas-root boot-source-selections read 1
Success.
Machine-readable output follows:
[
    {
        "arches": [
            "amd64",
            "arm64"
        ],
        "release": "xenial",
        "resource_uri": "/MAAS/api/2.0/boot-sources/1/selections/1/",
        "subarches": [
            "*"
        ],
        "id": 1,
        "labels": [
            "*"
        ],
        "os": "ubuntu",
        "boot_source_id": 1
    }
]

And the boot sources themselves:

$ maas maas-root boot-sources read
Success.
Machine-readable output follows:
[
    {
        "updated": "2016-11-29T11:23:43.309",
        "created": "2016-11-29T11:23:43.309",
        "keyring_filename": "/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-cloudimage-keyring.gpg",
        "id": 1,
        "keyring_data": "",
        "url": "http://images.maas.io/ephemeral-v3/daily/",
        "resource_uri": "/MAAS/api/2.0/boot-sources/1/"
    }
]

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

David,

As far as I understand, the architecture of this system is an arm-storm, which is not an architecture we have ever enabled or even certified (with Ubuntu).

Can you confirm whether this is standard systems that work with standard arm kernels? Does this need a special kernel? Or is this simply a rename of the hardware?

[David Lawson (deej)]

The nodes I have deployed are set up as arm64/xgene-uboot with no minimum kernel defined, they're booted with the ga-16.04 kernel, nothing special.

[David Lawson (deej)]

I'm honestly surprised they haven't been certified, I thought the Moonshots were a partnership project with HP, they certainly have documentation for Ubuntu on their website...

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

This bug has not seen any activity in the last 6 months, so it is being automatically closed.

If you are still experiencing this issue, please feel free to re-open.

MAAS Team