This testcase is to be carried out on an IBM POWER system (POWER 8 or higher, but cannot be executed on a PowerVM DLPAR).
Scope of this testcase is to verify that the system can be installed using a live server image and netbooting from the Petitboot firmware prompt.
Proceed in your native language if you wish. Instructions will remain in English.
- Boot up a system using IPMI, monitor the (sol) console, until the Petitboot menu shows up and select 'Exit to shell'.
- It takes takes a while to boot the OPAL firmware aka embedded Linux up to the Petitboot menu.
- Select 'Exit to shell' in Petitboot promptly before the system times out and proceeds with booting from the default device.
- Download the ISO image, usually the one mentioned here in the QA tracker that was requested to be tested, using wget (a proxy server might need to be specified).
- wget http://path/to/image.iso # proxy might be needed: '-e use_proxy=yes -e http_proxy=squid.internal:3128'
- Loop-back mount the ISO image:
- mkdir iso
- mount -t iso9660 -o loop image.iso iso
- Start The installer using kexec
- kexec -l ./iso/casper/vmlinux --initrd=./iso/casper/initrd.gz --append="ip=dhcp url=http://path/to/image.iso --- quiet"
- kexec -e
- The subiquity UI will pop-up after some time, choose your desired language, or confirm the default 'English'.
- At the network configuration screen, just select 'Done' (it should be pre-selected).
- At the filesystem setup screen, select "Use An Entire Disk" (should be pre-selected).
- Choose a disk to install to.
- At the file system summary screen select Done (should be selected by default).
- At the confirmation dialog, select "Continue" (should not be selected by default).
- Fill out the user information dialog, ideally making sure to import your SSH keys from git or launchpad.
- Wait until the installation is completed.
- Reboot the system, and monitor the progress via the (sol) console.
- Ensure that it's possible to login to the system.
- Ensure that you can run commands with sudo.
- Check that the correct SSH keys have been imported by SSHing into the machine or looking in ~/.ssh./
If all actions produce the expected results listed, please submit a 'passed' result.
If an action fails, or produces an unexpected result, please submit a 'failed' result and file a bug. Please be sure to include the bug number when you submit your result.
