Interesting, what distro and profile? Do you have a custom profile or custom partitioning?
The need for /boot/efi should be autodetected and put into the automatic partition plan by one of the following snippets of code (depending on distro/profile): # grep '/boot/efi' /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.* /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh: echo 'part /boot/efi --size 50 --ondisk '$instdisk' --fstype $EFIFSTYPE' >> /tmp/partitioning /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.rh.rhel7: echo 'part /boot/efi --size 50 --ondisk '$instdisk' --fstype '$EFIFSTYPE >> /tmp/partitioning /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/pre.sles: sed -e 's!<device>XCATPARTITIONHOOK</device>!<device>'$instdisk'</device><partitions config:type="list"><partition><filesystem config:type="symbol">vfat</filesystem><mount>/boot/efi</mount><size>128mb</size></partition><partition><mount>swap</mount><size>auto</size></partition><partition><mount>/</mount><size>auto</size></partition></partitions>!' /tmp/profile/autoinst.xml > /tmp/profile/modified.xml [root@odin scripts]# -----Original Message----- From: Rich Sudlow [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 9:03 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba I'm new to using uefi so this is a naive question. I'm using xcat version 2.8.3 trying to install a Dell R920 using uefi as I'd like to install using a singe > 5 TB RAID virtual disk - I'm using xnba which seems to work fine until I hit You have not created a /boot/efi partition - Is this something I should be doing manually prior to install? Any help would be appreciated. Rich Here are more details. ***************************** waiting for hardware to initialize... Retrieving http://10.32.64.2:80/install/autoinst/daccssfe... Waiting for NetworkManager to configure p9p1. Retrieving http://10.32.64.2/install/rhels6.6/x86_64/images/updates.img... Retrieving http://10.32.64.2/install/rhels6.6/x86_64/images/product.img... Retrieving http://10.32.64.2/install/rhels6.6/x86_64/images/install.img... Running anaconda 13.21.229, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux system installer - please wait. Examining storage devices In progress The following errors occurred with your partitioning: You have not created a /boot/efi partition. This can happen if there is not enough space on your hard drive(s) for the installation. Press 'OK' to exit the installer. The system will now reboot. terminating anaconda...done sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /dev/pts done /selinux done waiting for mdraid sets to become clean... rebooting system *************************** -- Rich Sudlow University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing - Union Station 506 W. South St South Bend, In 46601 (574) 631-7258 (office) (574) 807-1046 (cell) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
