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| author | Lin Tan <lin.tan@intel.com> | 2015-04-01 11:47:16 +0800 |
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| committer | Lin Tan <lin.tan@intel.com> | 2015-04-13 11:18:48 +0800 |
| commit | fe1e2b08c25ebdf0f82689d8651c34f2aafe9212 (patch) | |
| tree | 727e582e2e1ebffa163c79c39457b5a28680e95c | |
| parent | 49a5692c9dc328209a5dc9f3db3777ec8f4f3079 (diff) | |
| download | ironic-fe1e2b08c25ebdf0f82689d8651c34f2aafe9212.tar.gz | |
Improve AMT driver doc
It is recommended that users should deploy AMT nodes with local boot.
Co-Authored-By: Chris Krelle <nobodycam@gmail.com>
Close-Bug: #1436824
Change-Id: I536c587008bb68950ec7acfcf16c8ae28f9560bc
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/drivers/amt.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/drivers/amt.rst b/doc/source/drivers/amt.rst index 33e9701ac..ef6701a83 100644 --- a/doc/source/drivers/amt.rst +++ b/doc/source/drivers/amt.rst @@ -76,3 +76,14 @@ A detailed reference is available here, and a short guide follows below: ``amt_address``, and ``amt_username`` * Boot an instance + +.. note:: + It is recommended that nodes using the pxe_amt driver be deployed with the + `local boot`_ option. This is because the AMT firmware currently has no + support for setting a persistent boot device. Nodes deployed without the + `local boot`_ option could fail to boot if they are restarted outside of + Ironic's control (I.E. rebooted by a local user) because the node will + not attempt to PXE / network boot the kernel, using `local boot`_ solves this + known issue. + +.. _`local boot`: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic/deploy/install-guide.html#local-boot-with-partition-images |