Your suggestion was exactly what I needed. Thanks.

I added stunnel and nextdestiny to the image and it worked perfectly.
The only change I had to make was to change "xcatd" to "XCAT" where
stunnel was looking at /proc/cmdline.


On 07/28/2011 10:29 AM, Garrick Staples wrote:
> Heh, I got it to work by hacking a "next" command into the port 3002
> installmonitor and using "updateflag.awk $XCAT 3002 next". It's not the
> right way to do it, but it allowed me to move forward and get all of the
> pieces together.
>
> I'll try again using stunnel.
>
> On 07/28/2011 01:46 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote:
>> You should make the 'nextdestiny' was run to change the chain list in
>> the chain table. You can tabdump chain table to see whether it has
>> happened to move the 'install' into the currstate. The nextdestiny
>> cannot work without the help of stunnel, refer to the
>> /etc/init.d/S11stunnel in the nbfs.gz
>>
>> The important thing is after running of configure, the biossetup
>> system should reboot so that system can do the next destiny.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Best Regards
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋)
>> IBM China System Technology Laboratory
>> Tel: 86-10-82453455
>> Email: [email protected]
>> Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road,
>> Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193
>>
>> Inactive hide details for Garrick Staples ---2011-07-28
>> 04:09:07---What's the proper way to chain through a netboot osimage?
>> I'Garrick Staples ---2011-07-28 04:09:07---What's the proper way to
>> chain through a netboot osimage? I've created an image (genimage/packimage
>>
>> From: Garrick Staples <[email protected]>
>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Date: 2011-07-28 04:09
>> Subject: [xcat-user] chain through a stateless netboot osimage?
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> What's the proper way to chain through a netboot osimage? I've created
>> an image (genimage/packimage) that does BIOS updates and configs and it
>> works great. I just can't seem to chain out of it. I copied the
>> "nextdestiny" scripts into my new netboot image and they seem to run
>> without error.
>>
>> Upon discovery, I want xCAT to do nodediscover, bmcsetup, boot to my
>> biossetup profile, and then do a full disk install of centos.
>>
>> I have a group entry in the chain table:
>> "metal",,,"runcmd=bmcsetup,osimage=centos5.6-x86_64-netboot-biossetup,install=centos5-x86_64-metal","nodediscover",,
>>
>>
>> All of the individual parts work. I can nodeset it to runcmd=bmcsetup
>> and it does chain through to biossetup, but then it gets stuck. xcatd
>> never changes the boot state again. What's the magic to get xcatd to
>> nodeset to install=centos5-x86_64-metal?


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