Hmm... you could try 'makedhcp <node> -s 'filename \"\";'' I think as a workaround. This will cause DHCP to offer up no filename at all, and eventually fall through to boot.
Basically, in BIOS there is a lot of uncertainty as to whether you can chain, or exit, or whatever reliably. If you want it to be fast, sometimes exit is best, sometimes int13, dev 80 is best. Try noderes.netboot=pxe, noderes.netboot=xnba. It could also be that your boot nic is hooking int19, which can cause all sorts of problems. I rate this as highly unlikely as I thought it was mainly IBM firmware that got subjected to non-BBS behavior even when we support it for various reasons. UEFI *so far* seems to be less fickle on this front. From: John Griffin-Wiesner <[email protected]> To: xCAT User List <[email protected]> Date: 05/14/2013 03:23 PM Subject: [xcat-user] PXE boot from disk failing I'm installing CentOS 6.3 onto four HP SL250s via xcat. This xcat server (2.6.10) is working to install several other nodes. On these HPs however, when they PXE boot, and get xcat's direction to just boot from disk, they fail in one of two different methods shown below. When the nodes boot directly from hdd, they boot fine, through grub as expected. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Here's the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg file the nodes get when in "nodeset <node> boot" state: #boot DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT LOCALBOOT 0 PXE boot from disk halts at one of these spots: 1) MXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. 2) Illegal OpCode EAX=0000693B EBX=00000001 ECX=0000009D EDX=00005B84 EBP=0000FBDC ESI=00000000 EDI=0000FFFF DS=0000 ES=0000 FS=0000 GS=0000 CS:EIP=0000:00000007 SS:ESP=F09A:0000F096 EFLAGS=00000002 Thanks for any help. -- John Griffin-Wiesner HPC Systems Administrator Minnesota Supercomputing Institute http://www.msi.umn.edu [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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