On 5/10/12 2:11 PM, Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
On 5/9/12 5:46 PM, Christian Caruthers wrote:
It's pretty straightforward, but there are some gotchas, particularly
in the differences between RHEL5 & 6 kickstart templates.
Thanks for all the pointers. I've successfully loaded RHEL 6 and
created a working kickstart template. Unfortunately the post-install
seems to have problems and I'm stuck trying to figure out exactly
why. After the linux installation completes the server reboots as
expected and the post-install process begins. But the system hangs
during the subsequent bootup with the last message displayed being:
./otherpkgs: no extra rpms to install
So as a test I removed otherpkgs from the xcatdefaults entry in the
postscripts table and performed a re-install. It still hangs during
the bootup sequence for some reason. If I hook up a console to the
test node I can reboot it no problem and start it up in single user
mode. I see the xcatinstallpost script is still set up in
/etc/init.d, but in trying to walk through it I can't figure out what
might be hanging. Any suggestions?
FYI, I'm using the most recent xCAT snapshot
(xCAT-2.7.2-snap201205082311).
-Bruce
So as a followup I've managed to track it down to the updateflag.awk
script hanging because after the kickstart reboots the network
apparently isn't coming up for some reason. We have 10gb Mellanox NIC's
(IBM branded) in the iDataPlex nodes, and we don't use the built-in 1gb
NIC's at all.
If I reboot the node in single user mode and start the network manually
it sees the 1gb interfaces but not the 10gb ones for some reason. Odd
that the kickstart has no problem with the 10gb ones but the installed
OS does have a problem with them...
-Bruce
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