Hi Antoine, I had a similar problem when I migrate from RHEL5 to RHEL6. Maybe your are in the same issue ... not sure
In my case, with rhel6, anaconda was confuse to sort the different interface. anaconda (rhel6) use networkmanager to discover the interface and sort the interface in same order that the uefi anaconda (rhel5) put eth0 as the interface discover by the pxe boot. you can check my changing conf with ksdevice=bootif and add network information just after the kickstart location (another line) network --bootproto=dhcp The final fix was to change the installnic in the noderes table. Cheers Fabrice Cantos Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:09:17 +0200 From: Antoine Tabary<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.8.1 To: xCAT Users Mailing list<[email protected]> Message-ID: <of1b7399e3.512521ea-onc1257b58.005e14b2-c1257b58.005e3...@fr.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I have commented out the domain-search lines and restarted dhcpd, I could then run makedhcpd -a, it did change the content of /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases, but did not solve the problem. I have removed atftpd and installed tftp-server so that xcatd could start properly. I localy tested tftp to make sure tftpd was running properly. I tested it from a compute node as well. The node does properly do a PXE boot, but it does not go all the way. BootOrder is : Legacy Only CD/DVD Rom Floppy Disk PXE Network Hard Disk 0 hpc1A620c# ./asu64 show BootOrder IBM Advanced Settings Utility version 3.70.72L Licensed Materials - Property of IBM (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2007-2011 All Rights Reserved Successfully discovered the IMM via SLP. Discovered IMM at IP address 169.254.95.118 Connected to IMM at IP address 169.254.95.118 BootOrder.BootOrder=Legacy Only=CD/DVD Rom=Floppy Disk=PXE Network=Hard Disk 0 BootOrder.WolBootOrder=PXE Network=Floppy Disk=CD/DVD Rom=Hard Disk 0 hpc1A620c# I now have an extra message when tftp retrieves the file but still no install and blank screen once the dhcpd server receives the DHCPACK for the installation address. Note, the mask on the admin network is 255.255.252.0 so the xCAT server 10.252.7.204 is in the same VLAN as the compute node I am trying to add 10.252.5.20. Apr 25 17:56:57 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:56:57 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.252.5.20 to 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.252.5.20 (10.252.7.204) from 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.252.5.20 to 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a in.tftpd[24175]: RRQ from 10.252.5.20 filename xcat/xnba.kpxe Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a in.tftpd[24175]: tftp: client does not accept options Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a in.tftpd[24176]: RRQ from 10.252.5.20 filename xcat/xnba.kpxe Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.252.5.20 to 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.252.5.20 (10.252.7.204) from 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 Apr 25 17:57:01 hpc1A004a dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.252.5.20 to 5c:f3:fc:49:2e:f0 via eth4 With my bootorder rsetboot is not needed. If I use it the pxe boot is not Legacy anymore, any way it does not install either but does not go to disk either, it remains hung. Where can I look ? How can I increase verbosity ? Thank you for your help. Best regards, Antoine Tabary 17 Avenue De L'europe Certified HPC I/T Specialist Bois Colombes Cedex, 92275 6520AA France ITS -- Please consider the environment before printing this email. NIWA is the trading name of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
