Where's the docs?

[Michal Suchánek]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 02:33:06PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 13:45:52 +1100
> Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam at mendozajonas.com> wrote:

> > 
> > >   
> > > >   
> > > > > 
> > > > > So what it actually does it that it scans any devices it finds
> > > > > for any bootloader configuration it understands. Then it picks
> > > > > by some undefined algorithm a default system to boot and
> > > > > timeout.    
> > > > 
> > > > Petitboot picks what to boot based on a) the device priority you
> > > > have selected and b) the default option specified by the
> > > > bootloader configuration. Do you know which version of Petitboot
> > > > (or the IBM firmware) you are running? You should see that the
> > > > device boot order is configurable in the "System Configuration"
> > > > screen.  
> > > 
> > > Options set on the CUI screens don't persist across reboots so the
> > > order is effectively whatever petitboot picks by default. Since the
> > > default order is not documented it's effectively random from user's
> > > point of view.
> > > 
> > > Petitboot (dev.20150921)  
> > 
> > Something definitely isn't right with your system then, configuration
> > changes should persist without any issue. I see you're running a
> > relatively older version, as a first step try updating to the latest
> > firmware release. If you're on an FSP-based machine that's FW860, or
> > OP810/OP820 if you're on an OpenPOWER machine.
> 
> That's one thing I tried so far. Getting the administrative details
> sorted to get access to the firmware updates is .. in progress.
So now I am running v1.4.4-e1658ec.

Apart from it not booting at all I see no difference. Probably the grub
menu became so complex after some system upgrade that it cannot parse it
anymore.

> 
> > 
> > If that doesn't make a difference open an issue on
> > https://github.com/open-power/petitboot, post
> > 	/var/log/petitboot/pb-discover.log
> > 	/var/log/messages
> > 	/sys/firmware/opal/msglog
> > and we'll track down what's going on there.
> 
> That's something that *could* be in the manual.
And also how to get these out of petitboot.

Thanks

Michal
> 
> Or where the settings are stored and how to access them outside of
> petitboot. Surely there are not so many backends that listing them is
> out of question.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michal
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