Incidentally, I don’t see why one should set installnic and primarynic to ‘mac’
except for PPC. In x86, we carry forward whatever mac address that happened to
PXE by default, if not set to anything.
From: Er Tao Zhao [mailto:erta...@cn.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 11:08 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] pxe booting older hardware with newer xcat
Hi, David
Will you pls set installnic and primarynic to 'mac', and then run rinstall to
redeploy OS for the node?
Pls let us know if there is more issues.
Thx!
Best Regards,
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From: "David D. Johnson"
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Subject: [xcat-user] pxe booting older hardware with newer xcat
Date: Tue, May 9, 2017 4:28 AM
I’m needing to reinstall / update a dozen IBM x3650-M2 servers from 2009.
These Nehalem nodes get up to the point where they should be doing PXE dhcp
request, etc, but
I am only seeing blank screen. No DHCP events logged. It seems xcat would not
be to blame, but
I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered a situation like this. Tried
set BootOrder.BootOrder "Legacy Only=PXE Network"
[root@mgt5 rh]# lsdef storage005 --osimage
Object name: storage005
arch=x86_64
bmc=storage005-bmc
bmcport=0
currchain=boot
currstate=install rhels7.2-x86_64-storage
groups=storage,ipmi,storagenodes,chs,ext
initrd=xcat/osimage/rhels7.2-x86_64-install-storage/initrd.img
installnic=eno0
ip=172.20.1.5
kcmdline=quiet inst.repo=http://172.20.0.6:80/install/rhels7.2/x86_64
inst.ks=http://172.20.0.6:80/install/autoinst/storage005 ip=eno0:dhcp
inst.cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
kernel=xcat/osimage/rhels7.2-x86_64-install-storage/vmlinuz
mac=00:1A:64:E5:BA:56
mgt=ipmi
netboot=pxe
nfsserver=172.20.0.6
os=rhels7.2
postbootscripts=otherpkgs
postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp,ipoib,sitespecific
power=ipmi
primarynic=eno0
profile=storage
provmethod=rhels7.2-x86_64-install-storage
serialport=0
serialspeed=115200
status=powering-on
statustime=05-08-2017 15:46:33
tftpserver=172.20.0.6
profile=storage
osvers=rhels7.2
osarch=x86_64
osname=Linux
objtype=osimage
provmethod=install
imagetype=linux
osdistroname=rhels7.2-x86_64
I notice there is no pkglist — I tried cloning rhels7.2-x86_64-install-service
and probably missed a step.
Thanks for any insight,
— ddj
Dave Johnson
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