linux:linux_ppc_install
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CentOS PPC64le
Introduction
ATTENTION IBM Power P8 or later to install Linux Little Endian
CentOS for PowerPC Little Endian starting with version 7 (before not availble) can be downloaded from:
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/ppc64le/
To mount the ISO file, use for example a virtual CDROM on the VIOS.
Then start the Linux partition on the Power and go in the SMS menu using the virtual console.
Choose to boot on the CDROM.
Création des partition
Select LVM as base partitioning for the CentOS disk.
Important : If the partition doesn't boot anymore, check the partition table, and recreate it if neededS (probably a bug).
For ppc64le you can see a specific partition :
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000a2c9b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 10239 4096 41 PPC PReP Boot /dev/sda2 10240 1034239 512000 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1034240 41943039 20454400 8e Linux LVM
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# vgs Found duplicate PV qfCwP1Qc3KUIzscr1WKr04kBBbPFdUDd: using /dev/sda3 not /dev/sde3 Using duplicate PV /dev/sda3 without holders, ignoring /dev/sde3 VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree rhlnx01-vg 1 5 0 wz--n- 29.75g 6.38g [root@rhlnx01 ~]# lvs Found duplicate PV qfCwP1Qc3KUIzscr1WKr04kBBbPFdUDd: using /dev/sda3 not /dev/sde3 Using duplicate PV /dev/sda3 without holders, ignoring /dev/sde3 LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert big_lv rhlnx01-vg -wi-a----- 15.00g root_lv rhlnx01-vg -wi-ao---- 952.00m swap_lv rhlnx01-vg -wi-ao---- 1.86g usr_lv rhlnx01-vg -wi-ao---- 3.72g var_lv rhlnx01-vg -wi-ao---- 1.86g
La partition par defaut /boot, proposé lors de l'installation est de type ext2. Il faut changer ce type en “boot powerPC”
Post Install:
NMCLI to update network parameters:
[root@localhost ~]# nmcli general hostname localhost [root@localhost ~]# nmcli general hostname rhlnx01 [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli device status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION eth0 ethernet disconnected -- lo loopback unmanaged -- [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli con show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE eth0 3d89591d-bc03-4299-80cf-645b97ce1812 802-3-ethernet -- [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli con mod eth0 ipv4.addresses 172.1.1.2/24 ipv4.gateway 172.1.1.253 [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli con mod eth0 connection.autoconnect yes [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli con mod eth0 ipv4.dns 172.1.1.23,172.1.1.24 ipv4.dns-search "mydom.com" [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli con mod eth0 ipv4.method manual [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli con up eth0 ifname eth0 [root@rhlnx01 ~]# nmcli -p con show eth0 =============================================================================== Connection profile details (eth0) =============================================================================== connection.id: eth0 connection.uuid: 0fd0c630-a54e-4f01-a9fc-4d1c3c42921e connection.interface-name: eth0 connection.type: 802-3-ethernet connection.autoconnect: yes connection.autoconnect-priority: 0 connection.timestamp: 1464786900 connection.read-only: no .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ipv4.method: manual ipv4.dns: ipv4.dns-search: ipv4.addresses: 172.1.1.2/24 ipv4.gateway: 172.1.1.254 ipv4.routes: ....
Add entry in /etc/hosts:
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 172.1.1.2 rhlnx01
Disable the firewall and SELINUX:
systemctl stop firewalld systemctl disable firewalld
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# cat /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=disabled SELINUXTYPE=targeted [root@rhlnx01 ~]# reboot
Creation repository d'installation local
Creation d'un repository de type CDROM
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
[root@rhlnx01 yum.repos.d]# cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/cdrom.repo << EOF [cdrom] name=CDROM Repo baseurl=file:/mnt/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release EOF [root@rhlabh1 yum.repos.d]# mv /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.old [root@rhlabh1 yum.repos.d]# yum update
Installation des packages
Methode via repository local
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# mkdir -p /repo
Puis copie depuis NIM server:
[root@nimsrv]/export/softs/linux/centos_ppc64le# scp -rp base rsct update rhlnx01:/repo
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# yum -y install createrepo [root@rhlnx01 ~]# createrepo /repo/base [root@rhlnx01 ~]# createrepo /repo/rsct [root@rhlnx01 ~]# createrepo /repo/update
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d [root@rhlnx01 yum.repos.d]# cat > centos_base.repo << EOF [centos_base] name=centos_base baseurl=file:/repo/base/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release EOF [root@rhlnx01 yum.repos.d]# cat > centos_update.repo << EOF [centos_update] name=centos_update baseurl=file:/repo/update/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release EOF [root@rhlnx01 yum.repos.d]# cat > ibm_base.repo << EOF [ibm_base] name=ibm_base baseurl=file:/repo/rsct/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release EOF
Manual method
If available you can use the install through proxy: export http_proxy=“http://172.1.1.253:8080”
yum -y install ksh yum -y install nfs-utils yum -y install lshw yum -y install psmisc yum -y install chrony #replacement for ntpd yum -y install telnet #(client only useful to debug) yum -y install net-tools #(ifconfig, arp, netstat) yum -y install lsof yum -y install mlocate #(locate) yum -y install bind-utils #(host, nslookup) yum -y install open-vm-tools #(only if virtualization: VMware Tools) yum -y install sg3_utils #(scsi-rescan, alias for rescan-scsi-bus.sh) yum -y install cpulimit #(limit CPU usage per process) yum -y install nmap-ncat # nc command yum -y install system-storage-manager #ssm list yum -y install dosfstools # to mount USB keys in vfat, extfat
Also for NTFS USB keys you can download and install ntfs-3g package from EPEL
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/Packages/n/
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Additionnal IBM packages: RSCT allows DLPAR
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/ RSCT's Resource Monitoring and Control subsystem (RMC)
http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/server/POWER/Linux/yum/OSS/RHEL/7/ppc64le/
yum -y install src yum -y install rsct.core rsct.core.utils yum -y install devices.chrp.base.ServiceRM DynamicRM yum -y install nmon
Or
mount nimsrv:/export/softs /mnt cd /mnt/linux/centos_ppc64le/rsct rpm -Uhv src-3.2.1.0-15300.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uhv rsct.core-3.2.1.0-15300.ppc64le.rpm rsct.core.utils-3.2.1.0-15300.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uhv devices.chrp.base.ServiceRM-2.5.1.1-15300.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uhv DynamicRM-2.0.1-1.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uhv nmon-14i-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm rpm -Uhv ppc64-diag-2.6.10-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm lsvpd-1.7.6-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm libvpd-2.2.5-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
Check des process rsct:
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# lssrc -a Subsystem Group PID Status ctrmc rsct 11499 active IBM.DRM rsct_rm 11575 active IBM.HostRM rsct_rm 11628 active IBM.ServiceRM rsct_rm 11668 active IBM.MgmtDomainRM rsct_rm 11689 active ctcas rsct inoperative IBM.ERRM rsct_rm inoperative IBM.AuditRM rsct_rm inoperative IBM.SensorRM rsct_rm inoperative
Boot on both path
Find out the physical disk name. The boot disks are the disk where you installed the OS
root@unash1:~# multipath -ll
root@unash1:~# # Set bootlist root@unash1:~# bootlist -m normal sda sde
root@unash1:~# # Check bootlist root@unash1:~# bootlist -m normal -o sda sde
Time zone
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Luxembourg [root@rhlnx01 ~]# timedatectl Local time: mar. 2015-10-27 14:12:13 CET Universal time: mar. 2015-10-27 13:12:13 UTC RTC time: mar. 2015-10-27 13:12:14 Time zone: Europe/Luxembourg (CET, +0100) NTP enabled: yes NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local TZ: no DST active: no Last DST change: DST ended at dim. 2015-10-25 02:59:59 CEST dim. 2015-10-25 02:00:00 CET Next DST change: DST begins (the clock jumps one hour forward) at dim. 2016-03-27 01:59:59 CET dim. 2016-03-27 03:00:00 CEST
NTP config
Configure Chrony:
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# cat /etc/chrony.conf .... server timeserver1 server timeserver2
Enable/Start Chrony service:
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# systemctl enable chronyd [root@rhlnx01 ~]# systemctl start chronyd [root@rhlnx01 ~]# systemctl status chronyd
Check Chrony status:
[root@rhlnx01 ~]# chronyc sourcestats 210 Number of sources = 1 Name/IP Address NP NR Span Frequency Freq Skew Offset Std Dev ============================================================================== timeserver1.mydom.com 4 4 194 +0.000 4.901 +0ns 18us [root@rhlnx01 ~]# chronyc sources 210 Number of sources = 1 MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample =============================================================================== ^* timeserver1.mydom.com 5 6 17 21 +1080ns[+6000ns] +/- 41ms
Create a new FS
Exemple :
vgs lvcreate -L 15 G -n big_lv rhlnx01-vg mkfs.ext4 /dev/rhlnx01-vg/big_lv mount /dev/rhlnx01-vg/big_lv /bigfs
These packages are exclusive to ppc64le/ppc64
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