Re: [xcat-user] xnba, uefi boot and installation issue

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:13:49 -0700

I presume you meant stp

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Gilad Berman --- Re: [xcat-user] xnba, uefi boot and installation issue ---

From:"Gilad Berman" <gil...@il.ibm.com>
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Date:Sun, Aug 5, 2012 12:50 PM
SubjectRe: [xcat-user] xnba, uefi boot and installation issue

For item #2, seems like STG protocol was enabled and cause those issues. thx!

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From:        Jarrod B Johnson <jbjoh...@us.ibm.com>
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Date:        02/08/2012 21:19
Subject:        Re: [xcat-user] xnba, uefi boot and installation issue



1. That is a question I wanted to take to list. Once upon a time, systems management was so inconsistent and unreliable in the industry, always PXE-first was the only robust strategy. In UEFI, installers tend to modify boot order. Now we can change postscripts to try to save and restore boot order, reconciling the changes the OS actually *needs* to make with putting PXE first. Or we can just rely upon 'rsetboot <nodes> net' as a prelude to 'rpower <nodes> boot' during the install process. I've taken a liking to the latter as of late, as it means nominal boot in diskful case is that much faster.

2. I've not seen a failure like that, any chance to capture the screen of ctrl-alt2, crtl-alt-f3, etc?

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From: Gilad Berman <gil...@il.ibm.com>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Date: 08/02/2012 08:49 AM
Subject: [xcat-user] xnba, uefi boot and installation issue



Hello,

We're installing a M4 machine using xCAT 2.7.3 (upgraded from 2.6.9) and xnba. OS is RH 6.2 we are facing two issues -

1. after successful installation OS uefi boot option added as the first in the boot sequence (before the pxe). after that the node will not boot to PXE and there is no option to re-install the node or actually do anything that require network boot. node will always boot to the OS.

2. When installing a node we sometimes get the following error -
mounting /tmp as tmprunning install...
running /sbin/loader
detecting hardware...
waiting for hardware to initialize...
detecting hardware...
waiting for hardware to initialize...
Waiting for NetworkManager to configure eth0.
There was an error configuring your network interface.
This cannot be corrected in cmdline mode.
Halting.
Loader exited unexpectedly! Backtrace:
/sbin/loader[0x409c73]
/lib64/libc.so.6(exit+0xe2)[0x7f7d45fffdb2]
/sbin/loader[0x42028b]
/sbin/loader[0x420975]
/sbin/loader[0x41ba7f]
/sbin/loader[0x413e4b]
/sbin/loader[0x40d013]
/lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f7d45fe8cdd]
/sbin/loader[0x4079c9]
install exited abnormally [1/1]
The system will be rebooted when you press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Alt-Delete.



Sometime is in bold because sometimes it does work (on the same node) and the node successfully installed. strange.

Any ideas?

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