Re: [Qemu-ppc] Unable to install CentOS7 ppc64le due to checksum mismatches

[Brian Groose]

That's great, thanks!!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 3:26 PM Mark Cave-Ayland
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 10/07/2019 22:27, Brian Groose wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install CentOS 7 ppc64le using qemu-system-ppc64.  The
> > installer starts up but it always complains that the checksums on the
> > rpm repository files are wrong (for example,
> > /run/install/repo/repodata/34ce....a76b-primary.xml.gz)
> >
> > Normally, I'd say this was a bad download, but if I switch to a
> > terminal in the qemu VM, I can run sha256sum on the same file on disk
> > and I get the correct hash (in the example above, the hash is embedded
> > in the file name).  Almost like the installer is somehow getting it
> > wrong.  I tried several version of the CentOS 7 ISO with the same
> > results, as well as a netinstall.
> >
> > I was able to successfully install SuSE 12 SP0, but SuSE 12 SP1 and
> > beyond complain about checksum mismatches the same as CentOS 7, and I
> > can successfully verify the files in the VM have the correct checksum
> > with sha256sum as well.
> >
> > Any suggestions for what I can try here?
> >
> > I've tried this on Windows (3.1.50) and OS X (4.0.0) with the same results.
> >
> > I'm starting the VM like this:
> > qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom CentOS-7-ppc64le-Minimal-1810.iso -m 4g
> > -drive file=disk0.qcow2 -cpu power8
>
> This is a know bug with 4.0: see 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715017
> for some discussion and background.
>
> The patches to fix this have been merged into git master and so will appear 
> in the
> upcoming 4.1 release, and have also been queued in the 4.0 stable branch 
> ready for
> 4.0.1.
>
>
> ATB,
>
> Mark.