I'd omit ksdevice entirely, see if that brings you the ability to manually select the interface.
From: David D Johnson <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 02/28/2014 04:01 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Interactive install OK, I found the file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/cache001 (which is the hostname). I stripped out the ks= and change the ksdevice= to the mac address (I had previously had eth2, which didn't work at all). Here is the lsdef: [root@mgt1 tftpboot]# lsdef cache001 Object name: cache001 arch=x86_64 bmc=cache001-bmc bmcport=0 currchain=boot currstate=install centos6.5-x86_64-storage2 groups=cache,sm-bmc,cachenodes,chs initrd=xcat/osimage/centos6.5-x86_64-install-storage2/initrd.img installnic=mac ip=172.20.6.1 kcmdline=quiet repo=http://172.20.0.2:80/install/centos6.5/x86_64 ks= http://172.20.0.2:80/install/autoinst/cache001 ksdevice=eth2 cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200 kernel=xcat/osimage/centos6.5-x86_64-install-storage2/vmlinuz mac=00:25:90:8c:21:18 mgt=ipmi netboot=pxe nfsserver=172.20.0.2 os=centos6.5 postbootscripts=otherpkgs postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp,ipoib,sitespecific power=ipmi primarynic=mac profile=storage2 provmethod=centos6.5-x86_64-install-storage2 serialport=1 serialspeed=115200 status=installing statustime=02-28-2014 15:32:46 tftpserver=172.20.0.2 [root@mgt1 tftpboot]# At this point it is sitting for many minutes at "waiting for hardware to initialize..." Any ideas why things would get stuck here, any way to enable more debugging messages? The serial console seems to be working OK up to this point, but the node is not pingable. Thanks, -- ddj On Feb 28, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: After the nodeset, edit /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/<nodename>.* and remove the bits where it points to a kickstart file or whatever. Then it will be interactive and manual when it pxe boots. <graycol.gif>David Johnson ---02/28/2014 02:55:04 PM---We've provisioned a lot of diskless nodes and a few disked installs, but right now I have a one-off From: David Johnson <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" < [email protected]> Date: 02/28/2014 02:55 PM Subject: [xcat-user] Interactive install We've provisioned a lot of diskless nodes and a few disked installs, but right now I have a one-off install on a machine with no DVD drive. It needs software raid for the boot disk and other details that don't make a normal nodeset osimage install seem practical. Any suggestions how to simply boot install media with pxe and manually control the install? Thanks, -- ddj Dave Johnson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk_______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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