Re: Problems when nuking a Proliant in UEFI mode

rafa said on Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 02:17:20PM +0100:
>When testing the image on the Blade the principal Mondo menu appears. When
>choosing nuke the server the server starts but it keeps frozen in :
>
>Trying to allocate 1043 pages for VMLINUZ
>[Linux-EFI, setup=0x1076, size=0x4127b01]

I've also had that type of issues in  some of my cases on the new version, but it's already far away, and can't really remember.
I know I didn't solve it before stopping to take care more of my health.

>I'm attaching mondoarchive log and mindi.log. Unfortunately I don't know
>how to get more info from the restore op as it gets stuck on the begining.

Some ideas to look at:

The kernel should boot with that boot line:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=188008 interactive devfs=nomount noresume selinux=0 barrier=off udevtimeout=10

However, originally you had :
ro root=UUID=7ef09a22-b2c5-4f7a-9b22-2bb6cd01bdbf rd_NO_LUKS LANG=en_US.UTF-8  KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=es rd_NO_MD SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=133M@48M rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM audit
=1 elevator=deadline

So maybe one of the parameter could be removed (barrier=off typically) or changed (try to increase ramdisk_size). Use the /etc/mindi/mindi.conf file and change MINDI_ADDITIONAL_BOOT_PARAMS or try at restore time directly modifying the boot options.

It seems to be linked to the way the kernel is booted (may also be a port redirection for display even if I didn't see anything related to that)
I can try to reproduce, but I'm still not full time on work, so it will take a bit of time, before I get to that on my TODO list sorry :-(

Best regards,
Bruno.
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