Hello,

Problem found with rnetboot and the way it creates booline for ppc boot on
a P7   lpar.


The line

what works is at open firmware prompt is:

boot 
/vdevice/l-lan@30000002:speed=auto,duplex=auto,192.168.14.115,,192.168.14.16,000.000.000.000,5,5,255.255.255.0,512


what doesn't  is

boot 
/vdevice/l-lan@30000002:speed=auto,duplex=auto,bootp,192.168.14.115,,192.168.14.16,192.168.14.254


I have eliminated it down to by changing

lpar_netboot.expect

to use

<                 set net_device(0) "$full_path_name:speed=$speed,duplex=
$duplex,bootp,$server_ip,,$client_ip,$gateway_ip"
---
>                 set net_device(0) "$full_path_name:speed=$speed,duplex=
$duplex,bootp,$server_ip,,$client_ip,$gateway_ip,,,$netmask,"

this works every time.

seems there are some "extra_args" options as in

 set net_device(0) "$full_path_name:speed=$speed,duplex=
$duplex,bootp,$server_ip,,$client_ip,$gateway_ip $extra_args"

but I can't figure out how to set them.

Am i missing something in the tables that would set this field?


rnetboot -V
Version 2.6.2 (svn r10179, built Thu Jul 28 02:53:32 EDT 2011)

xCAT-2.6.1-snap201106162318
xCAT-rmc-2.6-snap201104261130
xCAT-server-2.6.2-snap201107280255
xCAT-IBMhpc-2.5.2-snap201103110418
perl-xCAT-2.6.2-snap201107280253
xCAT-client-2.6.2-snap201107192314


Regards, Dale............

"If you think you can or you think you can't, you're probably right!  -
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