Rather the kickstart line should be:
. . .
url --url
http://#TABLE:noderes:$NODE:nfsserver#/install/#TABLE:nodetype:$NODE:os#/x86_64
. . .
From: Pocina, Goran
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 4:24 PM
To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list'
Subject: RE: xCAT 2.7.4 on CentOS 6 doing CentOS 5 installs.
The nodetype.os variable is what's needed.
. . .
http://#TABLE:noderes:$NODE:nfsserver#/install/#TABLE:nodetype:$NODE:os#/x86_64
. . .
Works now.
From: Pocina, Goran
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:13 PM
To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list'
Subject: RE: xCAT 2.7.4 on CentOS 6 doing CentOS 5 installs.
Looks like the problem here is that unlike CentOS 6, CentOS 5 does not appear
able to determine the repo to use from the kernel command line:
. . . repo=http://149.77.53.252/install/centos5.8/x86_64/ . . .
The install works if the base repo is defined in the kickstart file using
something like:
. . .
url --url http://149.77.53.252/install/centos5.8/x86_64
. . .
But hardcoding the above in the kickstart file would kill the ability to select
the OS to use via xCAT. To be more flexible it would be good to pull the url
from the xCAT tables.
We can pull the http server IP address from the noderes table:
. . .
http://#TABLE:noderes:$NODE:nfsserver#/install/centos5.8/x86_64
. . .
But that still leaves the install directory. There's the linuximage.pkgdir
variable, but I'm not sure how to access that from the Kickstart file, as its
not a node variable. Has anyone done this?
Thanks,
Goran
From: Pocina, Goran
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:36 PM
To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list'
Subject: xCAT 2.7.4 on CentOS 6 doing CentOS 5 installs.
Anaconda hangs just after downloading the Kickstart file, during a CentOS 5
install from xCAT 2.7.4 on CentOS 6 MN. (CentOS 6 installs work on the same
node.)
SYSLOG displays the following message:
<from Syslog <alt>F3 :>
. . .
INFO : setting up kickstart
INFO : setting language to en_US.UTF-8
WARNING : requested keymap us is not valid, asking
Here are the kernel parameters the kernel was reporting when the "quiet" option
was dropped:
Kernel command line: initrd=xcat/centos5.8/x86_64/initrd.img
repo=http://149.77.53.252/install/centos5.8/x86_64/
ks=http://149.77.53.252/install/autoinst/develkv8 ksdevice=eth0 cmdline
console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200n8r BOOT_IMAGE=xcat/centos5.8/x86_64/vmlinuz
BOOTIF=01-00-25-90-49-34-e8
If the "cmdline" kernel arg is replaced with "text", then anaconda prompts for
the installation media, suggesting a problem with our Kickstart file, and
perhaps the "%pre" code pulled in from "pre.rh".
Could this have something to do with the pre.rh code? Is pre.rh backwards
compatible with CentOS 5?
Can a CentOS 6 MN be used to do CentOS 5 & 6 installs?
Thanks,
Goran
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