Re: [VCL 2.2.1] [Power7] Problem with image reservation

2011-06-08 Thread Josh Thompson
Sunil, I don't recall seeing any documentation on those parts. I had to poke around looking at parts of xCAT to see how it worked. It's been a few years since I did that; so, I don't remember much about the process. My recommendation would be to start looking at things in the rootimg.gz

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, no i do not have the 'os' filed set to 'image' in the nodetype table. also i do not have the 'arch' field set to 'x86', instead i have it set to 'x86_64'. this probably explains why it is not progressing. just so i understand this correctly, this has been my approach, can you confirm

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, kindly bare with other inline questions before i try out your suggestions - 'vcl_rhel_node_template' then i need to have the following file under $installroot/image/$arch/ vcl_rhel_node_template.img vcl_rhel_node_template.gz vcl_rhel_node_template-parta1.gz The above code

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Josh Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday June 08, 2011, Prem Kumar wrote: hi Josh, kindly bare with other inline questions before i try out your suggestions - 'vcl_rhel_node_template' then i need to have the following file under $installroot/image/$arch/

Re: VCL xCAT2.x BladeCenter

2011-06-08 Thread Prem Kumar
hi Josh, made some progress with 'os' and 'arch' in nodetype set to 'image' and 'x86', yet i am missing something. kindly could you confirm where i went wrong from below in reference to xcat and partimage setup: - successfully installed a compute node with pxe boot and 'ks' template located