[08:16] <elox> Hello. Is there a good guide as how to manually install a  juju-controller for a maas cloud without having to perform a "juju bootstrap" process from the API. E.g. I have a node already installed and just want to connect it to a maas.
[13:49] <zin> hello
[13:49] <CR> howdy, I am starting up trying to use MAAS and I have a node that has trunked ports connected to it, I am able to get it to PXE boot by setting the VLAN in the NIC's PXE options and starts loading the OS but it does not get a DHCP address in the OS.  I have the VLAN ID in the VLAN config in MAAS and also tried just passing vlan=vlan830 in the kernel boot options.
[13:50] <CR> Am I missing something?
[13:51] <roaksoax> CR: pxe boot process doens't use tagged interfaces
[13:52] <roaksoax> CR: so if your PXE is happening on a VLAN, there should be switch port configured with that vlan so the interface doens't have to be tagged (e.g. eth0.830)
[13:52] <roaksoax> CR: dunno if that's what you were asking
[13:53] <CR> so it gets the PXE image, it's getting that far and gets the initrd images, it's once it hits hte "IP-Config" part
[13:56] <roaksoax> right, so the image itself doens't get dhcp ?
[13:56] <roaksoax> CR: maybe the hardware you are using is a hardware for which the drivers are not available
[13:57] <CR> It's a Dell R910 w/ Broadcom NICs
[13:59] <CR> roaksoax: I see IP-Config: eno1 hardware address 78:2b:cb:xx:xx:xx mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
[13:59] <CR> and then times out
[13:59] <roaksoax> CR: i would suggest you grub console logs
[13:59] <roaksoax> s/grub/grab
[14:07] <CR> roaksoax: is that an option in maas or somewhere else?
[14:17] <roaksoax> CR: no, i mean the console logs from the server's serial console
[14:37] <CR> roaksoax: it appears I need to do something similar to the fix described in here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1382054  Is there a way to pass a VLAN to the initramfs with the standard MaaS setup?
[14:52] <roaksoax> CR: that is a feature request in the initrd it seems
[14:54] <CR> roaksoax: it would be very useful, our use case is we have a bunch of former VMware ESXi we would like to try out MaaS on and their ports are all configured as trunk ports and it would be a lot easier to boot them and pass the VLAN tag to them then have to get our network team to reconfigure the switchports just to do a POC.
[18:16] <roaksoax> cnf: agreed, but that seems that something ubuntu would have to support more generally
[18:17] <cnf> hmm?
[18:20] <roaksoax> cnf: so, how does the "firmware" deal with the fact you are pxe booting over a VLAN ?
[18:21] <cnf> idno
[18:22] <roaksoax> err cnf sorry, wrong person :)
[18:22]  * roaksoax fail
[18:23] <cnf> :P