I would suggest you use the official xCAT documentation. All our documents are at this location. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_Documentation
The two IDataplex doc - the quick start and the Advance might tell you what is wrong with your setup and would be a good place to start. I am not sure the document you used has kept up with our changes. It is not maintained by xCAT. http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Advanced_Setup Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Matthias Marx <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 08/13/2012 06:01 PM Subject: [xcat-user] Error: Install image not found in /install/centos6.2/x86_64 Hi, I'm currently trying to use xCAT to install a small cluster of four systems. Those systems are controlled via IPMI interfaces. I currently only defined one node so far because I can't even get this to work. The idea is to install the os to the nodes disks and use xCAT to switch easily between different OS on the 4 machines, so I want to use diskful installs of CentOS, SLES, Debian and Ubuntu and switch between them with xCAT. I used http://sumavi.com/chapters/linux-kickstart-installation to setup the basic xcat installation and test CentOS-6.2 as the first os. The rpower command ist working and I can enable the node "atlas" to boot into the rescue shell system via xnba. --------------------- [root@cat ~]# nodeset atlas shell atlas: shell [root@cat ~]# rpower atlas on atlas: on --------------------- ... works fine ... As a next step I tried to use the "[root@cat ~]# copycds CentOS-6.2-x86_64-minimal.iso" to extract a CentOS6.2 image to the /install folder. That's working so far that I now have the extracted installation files in: --------------------- [root@cat ~]# ls -l /install/centos6.2/x86_64 total 84 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 Dec 16 2011 CentOS_BuildTag drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:23 EFI -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 212 Dec 15 2011 EULA -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18009 Dec 15 2011 GPL drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:23 images drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:23 isolinux drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 16384 Aug 13 20:23 Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1354 Dec 9 2011 RELEASE-NOTES-en-US.html drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 20:23 repodata -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1706 Dec 9 2011 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1730 Dec 9 2011 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Debug-6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1730 Dec 9 2011 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Security-6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1734 Dec 9 2011 RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-Testing-6 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3380 Dec 16 2011 TRANS.TBL --------------------- Next I checked that I have all the predefined osimage definitions. They were created by copycds, so far so good. --------------------- [root@cat ~]# lsdef -t osimage centos6.2-x86_64-install-all (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-install-compute (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-install-iscsi (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-install-kvm (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-install-storage (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-install-xen (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-netboot-compute (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-netboot-kvm (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-netboot-xen (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-statelite-compute (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-statelite-kvm (osimage) centos6.2-x86_64-statelite-xen (osimage) --------------------- And the one I would like to use first in more detail: --------------------- [root@cat ~]# lsdef -t osimage -o centos6.2-x86_64-install-compute Object name: centos6.2-x86_64-install-compute imagetype=linux osarch=x86_64 osname=Linux osvers=centos6.2 otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/centos6.2/x86_64 pkgdir=/install/centos6.2/x86_64 pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos6.pkglist profile=compute provmethod=install template=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos6.tmpl --------------------- But when I now try to set the boot state of a node the following error occurs and I don't know how to fix it. --------------------- [root@cat ~]# nodeset atlas install Error: Install image not found in /install/centos6.2/x86_64 Error: Some nodes failed to set up install resources, aborting --------------------- Some configuration details: --------------------- xCAT: 2.7.3 mgmt node(cat) os: CentOS6 --------------------- [root@cat ~]# lsdef atlas Object name: atlas appstatustime=08-13-2012 20:03:51 arch=x86_64 bmc=atlas-ipmi bmcpassword=ADMIN bmcport=null bmcusername=ADMIN currstate=shell groups=ipmi,hwcluster hostnames=atlas initrd=xcat/genesis.fs.x86_64.lzma installnic=eth0 ip=10.0.5.1 kcmdline=quiet xcatd=10.0.0.2:3001 destiny=shell kernel=xcat/genesis.kernel.x86_64 mac=00:25:90:65:38:D8 mgt=ipmi netboot=xnba nfsserver=cat os=centos6.2 postbootscripts=otherpkgs postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles primarynic=eth0 profile=compute provmethod=install status=powering-off statustime=08-13-2012 21:31:35 tftpserver=cat --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump nodetype #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable "atlas","centos6.2","x86_64","install","install",,,, --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump noderes #node,servicenode,netboot,tftpserver,tftpdir,nfsserver,monserver,nfsdir,installnic,primarynic,discoverynics,cmdinterface,xcatmaster,current_osimage,next_osimage,nimserver,routenames,comments,disable "atlas",,"xnba","cat",,"cat",,,"eth0","eth0",,,,,,,,, --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump nodelist #node,groups,status,statustime,appstatus,appstatustime,primarysn,hidden,comments,disable "atlas","ipmi,hwcluster","powering-off","08-13-2012 21:31:35",,"08-13-2012 20:03:51",,,, --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump networks #netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,comments,disable "10_0_0_0-255_255_240_0","10.0.0.0","255.255.240.0","eth0","10.0.0.1",,"10.0.0.2","10.0.0.1",,,"10.0.1.1-10.0.1.254",,,,,, --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump mac #node,interface,mac,comments,disable "atlas",,"00:25:90:65:38:D8",, --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump nodehm #node,power,mgt,cons,termserver,termport,conserver,serialport,serialspeed,serialflow,getmac,comments,disable "atlas",,"ipmi",,,,,,,,,, --------------------- [root@cat ~]# tabdump ipmi #node,bmc,bmcport,taggedvlan,bmcid,username,password,comments,disable "atlas","atlas-ipmi","null",,,"ADMIN","ADMIN","null", --------------------- Kind Regards Matthias Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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