Progress! Between getdestiny and destiny.pm, the advanced idataplex wiki
(and lots of grepping) I found that setting chain to
"runcmd=bmcsetup,osimage=cps-netboot-compute:reboot4deploy" proves to work.
The node does bmcsetup, configures /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/, and reboots.

I'm now wondering if I can make changes in the genesis image to fix
bmcsetup and perhaps improve the speed of the process?

Thanks!

--David

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Pullman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Right, found the "retry in a bit" in
> /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/x86_64/fs/bin/doxcat. Seems like it
> may not like the chain value ($dest) of "netboot=cps-netboot-compute". So
> I'm now trying to come up with a sensible value to put in chain. I've tried
> netboot, reboot, "runcmd=bmcsetup,netboot". The bmcsetup seems to work, at
> least partially (these are Supermicro processing nodes). Not sure about
> getting it to just do the bmcsetup and do a reboot to the correct stateless
> image.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --David
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 11:03 AM, David Pullman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm working with xCAT 2.10 and RHEL 6.7. I have a Cisco 3560 configured
>> for switch discovery.
>>
>> When a node boots up, it gets a temporary IP and goes into Beginning node
>> discovery process. On the mgmt node logs it seems to get configured as its
>> assigned the correct IP address for that switchport it's plugged into.
>>
>> However, the node prints a message on the console "Received request to
>> retry in a bit, will call xCAT back in ... seconds.
>>
>> That times out and repeats. If I reboot the node it comes up correctly
>> configured. Even before the reboot the node has the assigned IP since I can
>> ping it.
>>
>> I'm not sure if I don't have something configured in tabs correctly, or
>> I'm missing something in the images, or....
>>
>> Any suggestions would be very welcome!
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --David
>>
>
>
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