Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for pxe and xnba. But not for
esxi4.1, it will fail to send result to xcatd. I comment reboot in auto
install script, to see what happen on esxi host.
Here is the /tmp/foo.log:
connect: network is unreachable
connect: errno=22
When i try to ping that node, cannot ping.
>From esxcfg-vmnic -l result, there has no IP present for vmnic1 which is
connect to network. However, when installation start before, I can ssh into
that esxi host.
When I tried to use netboot as pxe, when in pxe boot stage, it will be
prompt message like: xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32: not a COM32R
image.
In a word, for xnba, xcat cannot be retrieved signal from node, something
is wrong for network configuration; for pxe, will be failed at pxe boot.
Any idea to help solve those issue?
Thanks,
yixuan
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Yixuan Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> When I change netboot to pxe, i can boot esxi5.1 successfully. But I still
> have two questions:
> 1) what reason when I used xnba, it will loop infinite to install?
> 2) when installation has been successfully, if definition update in
> lsdef, as below information from that environment, status still get at
> installing. is it working as design?
>
> lsdef esxi5host:
> Object name: esxi5host
>
> arch=x86_64
> bmc=9.115.235.135
> bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
> bmcport=1
> bmcusername=USERID
> cons=ipmi
> currchain=boot
> currstate=boot
> groups=all
> installnic=vmnic1
> ip=192.168.1.5
> kcmdline=-c xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/boot.cfg.install ks=
> http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host
> kernel=xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/mboot.c32
>
> mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
> mgt=ipmi
> netboot=pxe
> nfsserver=192.168.1.2
> nodetype=osi
> os=esxi5.1
> postbootscripts=otherpkgs
> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
> primarynic=vmnic1
> profile=hypervisor
> provmethod=install
> status=installing
> statustime=06-11-2013 15:20:14
> xcatmaster=master
>
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM
> Subject: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Hello,
> When I tried to install esxi4.1 and 5.1 with xcat 2.8.1. I met following
> issue.
> It can be booted and successfully installed, and reboot, but pxe will
> install esxi server again...
> lsdef esxihost (which esxihost is my esxi node information):
> Object name: esxihost
> arch=x86_64
> bmc=9.115.235.135
> bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
> bmcport=1
> bmcusername=USERID
> cons=ipmi
> currchain=boot
> currstate=install esxi4.1-x86_64-base
> groups=all
> installnic=eth1
> ip=192.168.1.4
> kcmdline=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkboot.gz quiet repo=
> http://192.168.1.2:8
> 0/install/esxi4.1/x86_64 ks=
> http://192.168.1.2:80/install/autoinst/esxihostksde
> vice=vmnic1 --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkernel.gz ---
> xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/bas
> e/sys.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/cim.vgz ---
> xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/ienv
> iron.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/install.vgz ---
> xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/m
> od.tgz
> kernel=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32
> mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
> mgt=ipmi
> netboot=xnba
> nfsserver=192.168.1.2
> os=esxi4.1
> postbootscripts=otherpkgs
> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
> primarynic=eth1
> profile=base
> provmethod=install
> status=installing
> statustime=06-09-2013 17:32:39
> xcatmaster=master
>
> Any idea to solve that issue? And how to debug if there has such issue,
> when I enable SOL, it cannot work for esxi installation, no output to SOL
> session.
>
> Another question is, when I used esxi5.1 to install, it still use legacy
> CSM PXE, not the UEFI pxe.
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
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