Are you using UEFI or Legacy BIOS? netboot=pxe or netboot=xnba?
Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Mar 2021, at 20:42, Calvin Dodge <caldo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We are trying to deploy C6420 nodes with a diskfull image. The > deployment hangs about about 9.5 seconds after the kernel recognizes > the network and USB devices. > > Installment details: Head node was deployed using the live server ISO > ubuntu-18.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso. > The xcat-go install process created the /install/OS folder using that > ISO. But we could not nodeset a node with that osimage name until we > ran copycds manually with the regular server ISO > ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso. > > We've seen other strangenesses, like xCAT looking for a folder named > "ubuntu-" when we tried to run genimage to create a diskless image > > Meanwhile, the nodes are using PERC controllers for storage, which > uses the megaraid_sas kernel module. When we unpack the initrd used > in the initial PXE load, we don't find the kernel module there. Could > that be the source of our deployment hang? We see instructions on > adding modules, but they don't appear to be relevant, because (1) Dell > doesn't seem to provide a driver disk for the initial kernel > (5.4.0-22), and (2) the "use RPM" approach is unlikely to work with a > distribution that doesn't use RPMs. > > We CAN install Ubuntu on the node using the server ISO, so the > necessary drivers are present there, at least. So it seems to be an > xCAT issue. > > Has anyone else encountered this issue? If not, how can we diagnose > it, beyond adding (an as yet unfound) megaraid_sas kernel module to > the initial PXE initrd? > > Calvin Dodge > <cat_node_install_hung[33146].PNG> > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
