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Installing CentOS Stream 9 through ipxe on an Equinix Metal aarch64 mtjade hypervisor fails #1484

Closed stratakis closed 1 week ago

stratakis commented 1 month ago

On Equinix Metal, after choosing custom_ipxe and using https://boot.netboot.xyz/ I'm able to boot to the menu to choose an OS.

However on selecting either the graphical or the text based network installer for CentOS Stream 9 I receive this error:

Checking Media Presence...... Media Present...... Downloading NBP file...

NBP file downloaded successfully. iPXE initialising devices...ok

iPXE 1.21.1+ (g0cc8) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- https://ipxe.org Features: DNS HTTP HTTPS NFS TFTP VLAN EFI Menu Welcome to Neverland! Booting from net0...

(Ethernet) [open] [Link:down, TX:0 TXE:1 RX:0 RXE:0] [Link status: Unknown (https://ipxe.org/1a086194)] [TXE: 1 x "Network unreachable (https://ipxe.org/28086090)"] Configuring ()... ok net0: gw net0: gw net1: (inaccessible) net2: (inaccessible) Next server: 147.28.152.140 Filename: nonexistent tftp://147.28.152.140/nonexistent... No such file or directory (https://ipxe.org/2d12608e) Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint A0 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint A0 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint 92 Checkpoint A0 Checkpoint A0 Checkpoint DA ERROR: Boot option failed I've also tried to used the developer endpoints through the utilities menu to no avail.
stratakis commented 1 month ago

Same happening for AlmaLinux 9

antonym commented 1 week ago

I tried CentOS 9 Stream and Almalinux (text) with a c3.large.arm64 on Equinix Metal and it booted up without any issues. I was able to get all the way to the text mode install prompts.

stratakis commented 5 days ago

The issue was the APEI setting in the BIOS. After disabling it it was possible to proceed with the installation.