Marianne, > Hello xcat-user list, > Statefull install of CentOS6.2 or Fedora14 will not work on the HS20 blades, > when using xCAT 2.7.1 > > I have used genimage to create a stateless image of CentOS6.2 from the > managment node, and a stateless image of Fedora14 from a compute node. > > The stateless netboot will work okay on one blade, but not on other blades. What are the issues that you are getting on the blades. Do you have any error messages > > > To get the stateless netboot of CentOS6.2 to work on some blades I did the > following; > After setting the nodetype with # nodeset gouda6 > netboot=<osver>-<arch>-<profile> > Edit the file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/<node> and add the kernal boot time > options "usb-handoff acpi=off noapic" so it look something like > #netboot fedora14-x86_64-compute > DEFAULT xCAT > LABEL xCAT > KERNEL xcat/netboot/fedora14/x86_64/compute/kernel > APPEND initrd=xcat/netboot/fedora14/x86_64/compute/initrd-stateless.gz > boot_delay=50 usb-handoff acpi=off noapic > imgurl=http://gouda-san//install/netboot/fedora14/x86_64/compute/rootimg.gz > XCAT=gouda-san:3001 ifname=eth0:00:14:5e:36:46:aa|00:14:5e:36:46:ab!*NOIP* > netdev=eth0 console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8r > IPAPPEND 2 > > This fix did not work for Fedora14 or for any Statefull installs. > > Is there any better way to do this in xCAT, and is there any other xCAT > commands or options for doing a statefull install? > Yes there is, you do the following, and xCAT will automatically add the relevant boot time options
tabch node=compute bootparams.addkcmdline="usb-handoff acpi=off noapic" for all the nodes in the cluster, or for individually for nodes, you can run the following command nodech gouda6 bootparams.addkcmdline="usb-handoff acpi=off noapic" With nodeset, you don't need to set this in the command lne; and can easily be set in the xCAT tables. You only need to populate the nodetype table, with the relvent options, and them run nodeset gouda6 netboot i.e. tabch node=compute nodetype.os=centos6.2 nodetype.arch=x86_64 nodetype.provmethod=stateless or nodech gouda6 nodetype.os=centos6.2 nodetype.arch=x86_64 nodetype.provmethod=stateless I hope that helps regards, Arif ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
