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  1. Bug #1852678
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1852678

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Frank Heimes (fheimes) wrote :

I checked the firmware and it looks like it's the recommended "prod" level.
Petitboot System Information:
 System type: 8001-22C
 System id: C829UAF04B10265
 Primary platform versions:
        open-power-IBM-P8DTU-V2.00.GA2.SP1-20180105-prod
        op-build-4059438
        hostboot-7fdfb37
        occ-301b535
        skiboot-5.4.2-2a21b57
        linux-4.4.24-openpower1-48c3582
        petitboot-v1.4.0-ee0f918
        p8dtu-xml-04e8a01
 BMC current side:
        Device ID: 0x20
        Device Rev: 0x1
        Firmware version: 1.27.00000
        IPMI version: 2

Since I booted manually into Petitboot anyway, I verified what's possible there to avoid PXE boot from multiple interfaces. And it looks like it can be configured / restricted.

I changed the Petitboot settings to only allow nw boot from enP2p1s0f0 and only allow DHCP on that same, single interface, too - looks now like this:

 Petitboot (v1.4.0-ee0f918) 8001-22C C829UAF04B10265
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  [Network: enP2p1s0f0 / 0c:c4:7a:89:f0:64]
    execute
    netboot enP2p1s0f0 (pxelinux.0)
  [Disk: sda2 / bdbebffe-6fa8-4783-a82b-3b470dd78440]
    Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-12-generic (recovery mode)
    Ubuntu, with Linux 5.4.0-12-generic
    Ubuntu

  System information
  System configuration
  System status log
  Language
  Rescan devices
  Retrieve config from URL
 *Exit to shell

After booting (an already existing) test Ubuntu from disk, I was able to verify that all interfaces are (still) there (as expected, just double-checked).

I then commissioned the system again and deployed it using MAAS - it all worked fine.
And afaics it only did PXE from one interface.

So it 'seems' like it is now fixed with the Petitboot re-config.

So would you be able to re-try, Jeff?

PS: I think we didn't faced such an issue before, because we usually only have one port connected to the nw, to not waste too many switch ports. But for this machine it was recently requested to have all ports connected...