.. _local-boot-partition-images:

Local boot with partition images
--------------------------------

Starting with the Kilo release, Bare Metal service supports local boot with
partition images, meaning that after the deployment the node's subsequent
reboots won't happen via PXE or Virtual Media. Instead, it will boot from a
local boot loader installed on the disk.

It's important to note that in order for this to work the image being
deployed with Bare Metal service **must** contain ``grub2`` installed within it.

Enabling the local boot is different when Bare Metal service is used with
Compute service and without it.
The following sections will describe both methods.

.. note::
   The local boot feature is dependent upon a updated deploy ramdisk built
   with diskimage-builder_ **version >= 0.1.42** or ironic-python-agent_
   in the kilo-era.

.. _diskimage-builder: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/diskimage-builder/
.. _ironic-python-agent: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic-python-agent/


Enabling local boot with Compute service
========================================

To enable local boot we need to set a capability on the bare metal node,
for example::

    ironic node-update <node-uuid> add properties/capabilities="boot_option:local"


Nodes having ``boot_option`` set to ``local`` may be requested by adding
an ``extra_spec`` to the Compute service flavor, for example::

    nova flavor-key baremetal set capabilities:boot_option="local"


.. note::
    If the node is configured to use ``UEFI``, Bare Metal service will create
    an ``EFI partition`` on the disk and switch the partition table format to
    ``gpt``. The ``EFI partition`` will be used later by the boot loader
    (which is installed from the deploy ramdisk).

.. _local-boot-without-compute:

Enabling local boot without Compute
===================================

Since adding ``capabilities`` to the node's properties is only used by
the nova scheduler to perform more advanced scheduling of instances,
we need a way to enable local boot when Compute is not present. To do that
we can simply specify the capability via the ``instance_info`` attribute
of the node, for example::

    ironic node-update <node-uuid> add instance_info/capabilities='{"boot_option": "local"}'