So given this and the discovery discussion elsewhere, I've decided to
upload the genesis builder rpm.  It's not particularly documented, so
here's a stab at how to make a new genesis out of some CentOS6 (or
obviously similar):
-Install rpm onto some 'donor' system.
-Run:
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/builder/buildrpm
-Guess what rpms might be missing when it fails, try again.  glibc.i686 is
one biggie.  If something is posted to list I'll probably recognize it.

You'll see something to the effect of:
Wrote: 
/home/jbjohnso/rpmbuild/SRPMS/xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64-2.8-snap201401221702.src.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/jbjohnso/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64-2.8-snap201401221702.noarch.rpm

The list will notice that enic will now be
included.  /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/builder/installkernel is
the list of drivers that get pulled in, for reference).

URL at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/xcat/xcat-genesis-builder/xCAT-genesis-builder-2.8.4-snap201401221658.noarch.rpm/download

I figured I'd at least enable people to build new genesis images for
themselves.  We should do CentOS 6.5 soon, but it won't look any different
than what you'd build for yourself with that package.


From:   Dan Kulinski <[email protected]>
To:     "[email protected]"
            <[email protected]>
Date:   01/22/2014 04:53 PM
Subject:        [xcat-user] Genesis kernel on Haswell



We are deploying a small cluster and when using sequential discovery the
boot to the genesis kernel fails with an unsupport CPU and a kernel panic.
It looks like the genesis kernel is from CentOS 6.3, is there a way to
force it to 6.4 or 6.5?

Thanks,

Daniel Kulinski
Director, HPC at Global Geophysical
Office: 720-279-3600 x102
Mobile: 303-726-2783

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