I suspect Christian Caruthers is correct, but on the off chance he's not
- it might also have something to do with eth order - check in
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for the correct name, and set
that up in both mac and noderes tables.
On 11/05//2012 00:19, Christian Caruthers wrote:
You might be running into an issue where the 10Gb interface simply
isn't up or the driver isn't loaded when updateflag tries to run. I
haven't used 10Gb interfaces as a primary interface before, but
perhaps it's necessary to make sure the module(s) is/are included in
the initrd? I'm guessing RHEL5 doesn't have this problem? Is there
anything in the RHEL5 templates or xCAT tables spelling out initrd
modules to be included?
Regards,
*Christian D. Caruthers*
Senior Consultant - System x Linux HPC
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From: Bruce Pennypacker <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>,
Date: 05/10/2012 03:12 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] juggling rhel5 and rhel6 installs
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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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