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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

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.