Is this dx360 or dx360 M2/3/4?


From:   "Crane, Benjamin" <[email protected]>
To:     "[email protected]"
            <[email protected]>
Date:   03/26/2013 12:39 PM
Subject:        [xcat-user] sda boot fail & rcons not displaying hardware /
            bios F1     options



Hello all,

Relatively new to xcat and  have a two part issue/question.  We are moving
from an xcat stateless RH5 OS to a RH6 statefull image for our ibm dx360
blades, we’ve re-imaged 4 nodes so far all with same kick start file,
source repo, HW and firmware versions without issue, they boot up fine.
Now on the 5th server for some reason we have issues, we initiate the
install from the xcat server and via rcons can see it display everything
normal as per the install, including the disk (sda) formatting, RH package
install, and even runs the post scripts, then when it auto-reboots it’s
never able to boot off its internal disk, and just loops through the rest
of the boot options failing, ie attempts pxe boot, and so on. We’ve tried
setting legacy only as first boot option, as well as removing the uefi boot
partition from the kick start file with no success (suggested by redhat),
it just doesn’t seem to either detect or want to boot off the RH6 boot
partition.

The 2nd issue;  in attempting to troubleshoot the above issue, RH
recommended resetting the bios, which also didn’t help. After doing so
though, the rcons via the xcat server now does not show any of the hardware
F1 /bios/diag options as it powers up.  Meaning after a reboot we see it
unmounts the file systems on the console, but nothing else past that , or
as it boots up like we use to.  The big issue is we can no longer get into
diag unless someone is onsite with a crash cart. Does anyone know of any
settings within the bios/uefi set up that allows that hardware info to be
passed through to the rcons with the xcat server?  Thanks in advance for
any ideas.

xcatconfig -v
Version 2.6.11

UEFI TME152C 11/23/2012 (version 1.1.9 according to CE)


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