isolinux.bin file not found in image

[metal3-io]

isolinux.bin file not found in image

[etingof]

This might only happen if you do BIOS boot as opposed to UEFI.

Perhaps default/isolinux_bin ironic option can be used to point ironic to proper isolinux.bin location.

[yrobla]

In my case, the installer host is UEFI and also the target node has boot mode as UEFI.

[elfosardo]

As far as I can tell we never installed the syslinux package explicitly.
I also don't see it being installed as dependency from other packages, at least looking at some of the history of the builds.
If this is a new requirement for vmedia boot we definitely need to install it.
Either softlink or change of ironic option should work fine afterwards.

[etingof]

This might only happen if you do BIOS boot as opposed to UEFI.

Perhaps default/isolinux_bin ironic option can be used to point ironic to proper isolinux.bin location.

This seems surprising to me because of this condition. I can't find any other path leading to isolinux.bin use.

Could you share some logs to see where it ultimately went?

[etingof]

As far as I can tell we never installed the syslinux package explicitly.
I also don't see it being installed as dependency from other packages, at least looking at some of the history of the builds.

May be this is up to the package (e.g. rpm) to take care of a non-Pythonic dependency? We do install it in devstack, though.

If this is a new requirement for vmedia boot we definitely need to install it.
Either softlink or change of ironic option should work fine afterwards.

Prior to redfish virtual media, I think ilo driver might have used isolinux similarly.

Also, it should be a kind of conditional dependency - UEFI boot should work just fine without isolinux.

[yrobla]

This is happening just with virtualmedia i'd say, because it needs to compose the iso for the system to use it. So this fails on the process of iso creation

[stbenjam]

/kind bug

[stbenjam]

@elfosardo Could you take a look at this? Do we need to add this package to ironic-image for virtual media?

[yrobla]

I got rid of this failure on master nodes , using latest code. If the box is uefi, that file should not be used. However i am starting to see the same failures on worker nodes now, with a box booting from uefi.

[juliakreger]

using latest code from where? metal3-io/ironic-image, openshift/ironic-image, ironic itself?

[yrobla]

Latest code from openshift/installer... it sets capabilities/boot_mode to uefi by default . With that flag, the isolinux.bin codepath is not reached, and i do not get the missing file problem.

[juliakreger]

@yrobla In that case, it seems like we could close this item?

[yrobla]

Closing that, as boot_mode:uefi capability fixes the issue