Hi Josh,
Thanks for your reply. I am also using IBM BladeCenter hardware using HS20 and
HS21 blades, so your solution should work well.
I have run through your instructions for "Adding support for partimage and
partimage-ng to xCAT 2.x (unofficial)"
Two other things I did were;
1. restart xcatd using the 'service xcatd stop' and 'service xcatd start'
commands
2. copied the default.tmpl to createimage.x86.tmpl in the
$XCATROOT/share/xcat/install/ directory
Now the following error messages are shown
[root@gouda-san x86]# nodeset gouda6 install
Error: No image file found for compute in /install/image/x86
Error: Some nodes failed to set up install resources, aborting
I tried putting a img file in the /install/image/x86 directory (a copy of your
initrd.img), and that allowed the nodeset <> install to function but on
rebooting the node the image capture process did not working.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Marianne.
PS some of the settings for the blade center that may be relevent
[root@gouda-san x86]# tabdump nodetype
#node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable
"gouda6","image","x86","compute","install",,"osi",,
"gouda1","centos6.2","x86_64","compute","netboot",,"osi",,
[root@gouda-san x86]# lsdef gouda6
Object name: gouda6
addkcmdline=boot_delay=50 usb-handoff acpi=off noapic
arch=x86
cons=blade
currchain=boot
currstate=boot
groups=all,hs20,blade,compute
id=6
initrd=xcat/image/x86/initrd.img
installnic=mac
kcmdline=imgurl=http://gouda-san//install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz
image=/install/image/x86/compute.img blocks=512 action=restore installnic=mac
reboot console=ttyS1,19200n8r noipv6
kernel=xcat/image/x86/vmlinuz
mac=00:XX:XX:XX:XX:aa|00:XX:XX:XX:XX:ab!*NOIP*
mgt=blade
mpa=gouda-amm1
mtm=884325M
netboot=pxe
nfsserver=gouda-san
nodetype=osi
os=image
postbootscripts=otherpkgs
postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp,configeth
primarynic=mac
profile=compute
provmethod=install
serial=99GKR59
serialflow=hard
serialport=1
serialspeed=19200
status=booting
statustime=05-22-2012 10:46:13
xcatmaster=gouda-san
[root@gouda-san x86]# tabdump site
#key,value,comments,disable
"blademaxp","64",,
"fsptimeout","0",,
"installdir","/install",,
"ipmimaxp","64",,
"ipmiretries","3",,
"ipmitimeout","2",,
"consoleondemand","no",,
"master","192.168.XXX.1",,
"nameservers","192.168.XXX.1",,
"maxssh","8",,
"ppcmaxp","64",,
"ppcretry","3",,
"ppctimeout","0",,
"powerinterval","0",,
"syspowerinterval","0",,
"sharedtftp","1",,
"SNsyncfiledir","/var/xcat/syncfiles",,
"tftpdir","/tftpboot",,
"xcatdport","3001",,
"xcatiport","3002",,
"xcatconfdir","/etc/xcat",,
"timezone","Australia/Adelaide",,
"useNmapfromMN","no",,
"enableASMI","no",,
"db2installloc","/mntdb2",,
"databaseloc","/var/lib",,
"sshbetweennodes","ALLGROUPS",,
"dnshandler","ddns",,
"vsftp","n",,
"cleanupxcatpost","no",,
"domain","cluster.net",,
"dhcpinterfaces","gouda-san|eth0",,
"ntpservers","gouda-san",,
"forwarders","192.168.XXX.99",,
"IMAGELIBSERVER","192.168.XXX.1",,
"IMAGELIBINSTALLDIR","/install/image/x86/installer_files",,
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From: Josh Thompson [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, 16 July 2012 11:03 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Diskful image-based installs
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Marianne,
Wow - that was pretty amazing timing. I did the partimage support described
on the apache.org link you included. The Apache VCL project just graduated
out of Apache's incubator to its own top level project. As part of that, our
subversion repository got migrated to a different URL, resulting in the links
to partimageng.pm and listener.py being broken. That just happened yesterday;
so, you just missed the good links.
I just updated the page to point to the correct places.
I labeled the page as "unofficial" because it is not something I can devote a
lot of time to supporting, but I do what I can to help people get it working
when I do have time. Also, we only have IBM BladeCenter hardware to work
with; so, I couldn't test the stateless image with other hardware to make sure
it works okay.
The Apache VCL project uses xCAT to do our bare metal provisioning, including
imaging of windows and linux installs. We started with xCAT 1.x which
included partimage. When we moved to xCAT 2.x, we needed partimage to be able
to continue deploying all of our images. Egan Ford gave me some guidance on
how to make it work, which led to what I explained on our wiki page.
Josh Thompson
Apache VCL developer
On Monday, July 16, 2012 7:19:17 AM Marianne Rieckmann wrote:
> Hi xcat users,
> I would like to use either of the following solutions for diskful images,
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Partimage
> or
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Image_Provisionin
> g What do you suggest?
>
> If the Partimage solution is the best, the links on the instruction page are
> broken
> https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng-
> to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Is there a current link to the partimageng.pm and
> listener.py available?
>
> Regards,
> Marianne
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