Seems that It was me following the guide here and configuring the console.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start#Declare_use_of_SOL

Turning that off and I get machines installing. I guess I have bad
serial hardware, its not nessicary for these devices so I am happy.



On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Ben De Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
> I should add that I can install the OS from the install dvd with out
> any problems.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ben De Luca <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>         Im new to xcat2, I am attempting to deploy fedora14 to a load
>> of machines here. To get my head around xcat I orignally installed a
>> set of virtual machines from our cluster (as though they were
>> workstation, controlling the power myself). I can install perfectly to
>> the vms but I cant seem to get xcat to install to real hardware. On
>> the two types of machines I have tried to far the boot process gets to
>> freeing unused kernel memory and then the machine kernel panics.
>>
>>         I am some what at a lost of what to do next. I suspected it
>> maybe that the network driver was not installed so I used genimage to
>> install the tg3 driver in the image through the following commands.
>>
>> genimage -i eth0 -n igb,e1000e,e1000,bnx2,tg3 -o fedora14
>> packimage  -p compute -o fedora14
>>
>>
>>        Has any one experianced any thing like this or could offer a pointer
>>
>> -bd
>>
>

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