Aha! mknb! --David
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:43 PM, David Pullman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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