#0 - Yes, xcatconfig is trying to restart the nfs service for the first installing to export the /install directory. But the problem is that could you run 'service nfs restart' successfully without touch of 'rpcbind' service? If no, is it an issue of SL6?
#1 - The rcons worked in pxe phase was because the console was control by firmware. Could you check the parameter for the console was set correctly. And what's it help if not add the console parameter to the kernel parameter? #2 - Could you try the netboot=xnba? And it's possible that the pxe booting does not work for some old type of machine. #3 - Yes #4 - Stopping loop install does NOT depend on any postscript. Thanks Best Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: [email protected] Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 From: Jonathan Barber <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 2012/09/20 20:37 Subject: [xcat-user] Various xCAT issues and questions I have been testing xCat (installed from RPM xCAT-2.7.4-snap201208232244.x86_64) with a master on SL6 and installing SL6 onto an old IBM eserver xSeries 336. From this, I have discovered a couple of issues which I wanted to report. 0) When I install xCAT ("yum install xCAT"), the xcatconfig hung starting the nfs server. I think this is because the rpcbind service wasn't running. Probably a call to "service rpcbind start" and "chkconfig rpcbind on" should be added to xcatconfig. 1) The kickstart install doesn't seem to work with the kernel options "cmdline console=...". I don't know whether this is a problem with the SL6 anaconda, the the "cmdline" or the "console" options, or with the SOL (although rcons works pre-PXE). From reading the XCAT_plugin::Anaconda module, these arguments appear to be added when the serial console is configured for the host. Is a way to have the serial console configured but not add them to the install command line options? 2) After the install, "nodeset test32 stat" reports "boot". And the pxelinux.cfg file for the node is: #boot DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT LOCALBOOT 0 the machine gets the pxelinux config file, and displays the message: Booting from local disk... PXE-MOF: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM. and then goes through the PXE cycle again. I solved this by copying the file chain.c32, memdisk, and menu.c32 from the installed version of syslinux to /tftpboot/ and modifying the pxelinux.cfg file to read: #boot DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT kernel chain.c32 append hd0 >From what I've read about syslinux, this is probably more robust that using "localboot 0" (although I am not an expert). 3) Is the pre script /share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh required? 4) What's the minimal post script required to stop xcat from going into an endless install loop? This is slightly silly, but I don't want to install all of the xcat files on every server, and I'm using puppet to manage the configuration post-install. Thanks for developing xCAT and I hope these comments are useful. Regards -- Jonathan Barber <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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