Hi Jesus,
That's very useful information. Thank you for that! I'm going to update my
osimage definition and try a few more deploys and see how far I get with
it. I think I'll still end up having to update xCAT in any case, but I'll
see if I can get it working with the current install first, while making
manual edits as needed for testing.
Thanks,
Josh
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Jesus R. Camou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Josh,
>
> centos7.1 provisioning works smoothly for me on 2.9.1 with the following
> definition and templates:
>
> [jcamou@xcat ~]$ lsxcatd -v
> Version 2.9.1 (git commit 7f6043fffd62d482931b17b60f9488eb5754fdc1, built
> Thu Mar 19 03:25:35 EDT 2015)
>
> [jcamou@xcat ~]$ lsdef -t osimage centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute
> Object name: centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute
> addkcmdline=net.ifnames=0 biodevname=0
> imagetype=linux
> osarch=x86_64
> osdistroname=centos7.1-x86_64
> osname=Linux
> osvers=centos7.1
> otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/centos7.1/x86_64
> pkgdir=/install/centos7.1/x86_64
> pkglist=/install/custom/install/centos7/compute.centos7.pkglist
> profile=compute
> provmethod=install
> template=/install/custom/install/centos7/compute.centos7.tmpl
>
> Notice the addkcmdline attribute has "net.ifnames=0 biodevname=0" to
> disable consistent network device naming which forces the kernel to use and
> stick to the ethX interface naming convention:
>
> [jcamou@xcat ~]$ lsdef -t osimage -o centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute -i
> addkcmdline
> Object name: centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute
> addkcmdline=net.ifnames=0 biodevname=0
>
> You may set this by:
>
> [jcamou@xcat ~]$ tabch imagename=centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute
> linuximage.addkcmdline="net.ifnames=0 biodevname=0"
>
>
> And the following templates (ignoring commented and empty lines for
> shortening purposes):
>
> [jcamou@xcat ~]$ grep -Ev '^#|^$'
> /install/custom/install/centos7/compute.centos7.tmpl
> lang en_US
> %include /tmp/repos
> keyboard "us"
> zerombr
> clearpart --all --initlabel
> %include /tmp/partitioning
> bootloader
> install
> text
> firewall --disabled
> timezone --utc "#TABLE:site:key=timezone:value#"
> skipx
> rootpw --iscrypted #CRYPT:passwd:key=system,username=root:password#
> auth --useshadow --enablemd5
> selinux --disabled
> reboot
> %packages
> %end
> %pre
> %end
> %post
> %end
>
>
> ... and pkglist:
>
> [jcamou@xcat ~]$ cat
> /install/custom/install/centos7/compute.centos7.pkglist
> #Please make sure there is a space between @ and group name
> wget
> ntp
> nfs-utils
> net-snmp
> rsync
> yp-tools
> openssh-server
> util-linux
> net-tools
> mailx
> vim-enhanced
>
>
>
>
> - j
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Josh Nielsen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> And did you ever figure out your problem Nathan?
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Josh Nielsen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I was going to post a new thread about Centos 7 but thought I might
>>> piggy back on this one since it is a similar topic. I have xCAT 2.8.3
>>> currently and it sounds like from the thread here that upgrading to 2.10 is
>>> part of the solution for deploying Centos 7.1. Currently the issue I'm
>>> having is that during a PXE boot it fetches the correct centos 7.1 image
>>> and begins trying to deploy but after it shows "Mounted Configuration File
>>> System" and "Started Show Plymouth Boot Screen" I get a message like this:
>>> "dracut-initqueue: Warning: Could not boot" and hangs there.
>>>
>>> This isn't a very explicit error, as to what caused it, and I didn't
>>> learn much from removing "quiet" from the PXE kernel boot parameters. I
>>> also can't get the ctrl+alt+F keys to work, at least in a VM, for showing
>>> different terminals like you could in Centos 6 (which was very helpful for
>>> debugging).
>>>
>>> Is this most likely because the kickstart file itself is not formatted
>>> correctly (I'm reusing my Centos 6.4 kickstart - until I figure out how
>>> Centos 7.1 differs), or perhaps that the kickstart is not being properly
>>> fetched from the gpxe configuration in /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes? Currently
>>> the gpxe boot configuration for the node I'm trying to deploy Centos7.1 to
>>> looks like this:
>>>
>>> #!gpxe
>>> #install centos7.1-x86_64-compute
>>> imgfetch -n kernel http://
>>> ${next-server}/tftpboot/xcat/osimage/centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute/vmlinuz
>>> imgload kernel
>>> imgargs kernel repo=http://10.20.0.101:80/install/centos7.1/x86_64 ks=
>>> http://10.20.0.101:80/install/autoinst/node0067c ksdevice=bootif
>>> cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8r BOOTIF=01-${netX/machyp}
>>> imgfetch http://
>>> ${next-server}/tftpboot/xcat/osimage/centos7.1-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img
>>> imgexec kernel
>>>
>>> I manually changed ksdevice to "bootif" just to make sure it was using
>>> the right interface (it was set to eth0 but Centos 7.1 got rid of "eth" for
>>> "em" didn't it?). Nonetheless, I think my kickstart is being sucessfully
>>> fetched, because I changed the disk formatting commands in the kickstart
>>> and when I removed "quiet" from the boot I saw errors related to disk
>>> formatting/partitioning. So I'm partial to thinking that the old Centos 6.4
>>> kickstart configuration is not 100% compatible with Centos 7.1, but I want
>>> to double check to see what xCAT 2.10 bring to the table that might be
>>> necessary for Centos 7.1 deployment. Comments or thoughts?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Russell Auld <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks like xcatdsklspost does get called even for stateful installs.
>>>> Look at the script header.
>>>> Usually in cases like this, the issue is that the node being imaged
>>>> can't resolve the name of the master node. Make sure your dns is working
>>>> properly.
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 23, 2015 12:52 PM, "Heald, Nathan T." <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > To follow up:
>>>> >
>>>> > I have resolved the pxe problem by upgrading further to xcat 2.10.
>>>> Now it sets kickstart parameters that centos7 responds to.
>>>> >
>>>> > However I have a new problem, the rinstall is now looping. I’ve
>>>> gotten as far as seeing that "/xcatpost” is never created on my stateful
>>>> install. The xcat debugging page suggests networking problems as the first
>>>> thing to check. So far I’ve not found anything on that front. I can’t find
>>>> what specifically creates /xcatpost during the install. I see that
>>>> /opt/xcat was created which contains the scripts xcatdsklspost
>>>> and xcatinstallpost. Only the script xcatdsklspost has the line “mkdir
>>>> /$xcatpost”, I would not expect this script to be executed since this is
>>>> not a diskless install. “xcatinstallpost” starts trying to download stuff
>>>> to /xcatpost but there’s nothing in this script that creates this
>>>> directory.
>>>> >
>>>> > Suggestions?
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > -Nathan
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > From: Nathan Heald <[email protected]>
>>>> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>> > Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 5:30 PM
>>>> > To: "[email protected]" <
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>> > Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7
>>>> >
>>>> > Greetings,
>>>> >
>>>> > I’m trying to get a working statefull install of centos7 on generic
>>>> hardware. This management node started out with xCAT 2.8.4, I have upgraded
>>>> it to 2.9.1 to try to get this working. Of course the parameters of the
>>>> RH/centos 7 kickstart have changed necessitating the upgrade. I found this
>>>> url indicating that as of 2.9 xcat should know know how to handle
>>>> RH/centos7:
>>>> > http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/4318/
>>>> >
>>>> > However, I’m not able to trick xcat into setting up my pxe file
>>>> correctly when I run the nodeset for the host I want to install. I get this
>>>> in my /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/host01 file:
>>>> > …
>>>> > APPEND initrd=xcat/osimage/centos7-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img
>>>> quiet repo=http://192.168.0.1:80/install/centos7/x86_64 ks=
>>>> http://192.168.0.1:80/install/autoinst/host01
>>>> ksdevice=2C:44:FD:00:00:00
>>>> > …
>>>> >
>>>> > But I’m expecting something more like this which should be supported
>>>> by centos7:
>>>> > …
>>>> > APPEND initrd=xcat/osimage/centos7-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img
>>>> quiet inst.repo=http://192.168.0.1:80/install/centos7/x86_64 ks=
>>>> http://192.168.0.1:80/install/autoinst/host01
>>>> ksdevice=2C:44:FD:00:00:00
>>>> > …
>>>> >
>>>> > It looks like the updated xCAT code is trying to match “7.0" in $os
>>>> for the host definition. It appears that $os was set to “centos7” at some
>>>> point when I either ran copycds or ran a nodeset. I’ve tried a few
>>>> different iterations to see if I can tickle this into working to no avail.
>>>> >
>>>> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > -Nathan
>>>> >
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