[Bug 1437024] Re: Failure to PXE-boot from secondary NIC

[Alec Duroy]

Hi,
I was also affected by this issue - to PXE boot at UEFI for add-on adapter i350 1Gb interface. Upgrading the MAAS server version to 18.04 bionic release did not solve the symptom. But I was able to find a workaround by booting first the IPv6 before IPv4 - the same workaround mentioned by Rod Smith about his comment #21 on reported Bug #1437024. The detail of this was filed under Bug #1787637. Thanks

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Title:
  Failure to PXE-boot from secondary NIC

Status in MAAS:
  Invalid
Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in grub2 source package in Trusty:
  Triaged
Status in grub2 source package in Xenial:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On a Lenovo x3550 M5 with the standard 4-port 1Gbps NICs and a
  secondary (plug-in) 2-port 10Gbps NIC, an attempt to PXE-boot from the
  secondary NIC in UEFI mode causes a boot failure with a "grub>" prompt
  on the display.

  This server arrived for certification with both NICs enabled. I
  suspect, but am not positive, that which NIC is chosen for booting is
  semi-random, although it favors the secondary NIC. The system PXE-
  boots fine from the built-in ports (generally the first one, eth0),
  and when booting from eth0 is forced via the UEFI boot menu,
  enlistment, commissioning, deployment, and post-deployment booting all
  work fine.

  When the system PXE-boots from the secondary NIC, though, the normal
  UEFI PXE-boot messages appear on the screen, followed by the
  aforementioned "grub>" prompt. This obviously prevents normal
  operation of the server with MAAS. It appears from the logs (attached)
  that when using the failed NIC, the MAAS server doesn't receive
  follow-on requests from GRUB.

  As a workaround, the secondary NICs can be configured to not support
  PXE-booting in the firmware setup utility; this enables normal
  deployment via MAAS.

  MAAS version information:

  $ dpkg -l '*maas*'|cat
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                                                  Version                                             Architecture Description
  +++-=====================================================-===================================================-============-===============================================================================
  ii  maas                                                  1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS server all-in-one metapackage
  ii  maas-cli                                              1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS command line API tool
  ii  maas-cluster-controller                               1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS server cluster controller
  ii  maas-common                                           1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS server common files
  ii  maas-dhcp                                             1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS DHCP server
  ii  maas-dns                                              1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS DNS server
  ii  maas-proxy                                            1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS Caching Proxy
  ii  maas-region-controller                                1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS server complete region controller
  ii  maas-region-controller-min                            1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS Server minimum region controller
  ii  python-django-maas                                    1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS server Django web framework
  ii  python-maas-client                                    1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS python API client
  ii  python-maas-provisioningserver                        1.7.2+bzr3355-0ubuntu1~trusty1                      all          MAAS server provisioning libraries

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