Good catch, Casandra. Unfortunately, after fixing it, no change.
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Casandra H Qiu <cxh...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> netboot=xbna <---------- should be netboot=xnba
>
> after run nodeset, makesure xnba files are in the /tftpboot/xcat/xnba
> .........
>
>
> Thanks,
> Casandra Qiu
>
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> Casandra Hong Qiu
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> AM---Hi, I'm trying to set up a new cluster with stateless nodes,]Kevin
> Keane ---10/31/2017 11:25:42 AM---Hi, I'm trying to set up a new cluster
> with stateless nodes, but whatever I do,
>
> From: Kevin Keane <kke...@sandiego.edu>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: 10/31/2017 11:25 AM
> Subject: [xcat-user] Stateless node - can't get it to boot image
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a new cluster with stateless nodes, but whatever I
> do, I can only seem to get it to boot to the genesis image.
>
> I set up my node manually (no discovery); the node does not have IPMI, BMC
> - just plain PXE. The node does get the correct IP from the DHCP server.
>
> My hunch is that my problem is related to the node's chain attribute, but
> I am not sure what to set there. Most people seem to set
> "runcmd=bmcsetup,shell" but since I don't have a BMC, that's probably not
> the correct setting for me.
>
> Or maybe my problem is somewhere different?
>
>
> Here is my node definition:
>
> Object name: hpccn-001
> arch=x86_64
> groups=compute,all
> initrd=xcat/osimage/hpccn-netboot-image/initrd-stateless.gz
> installnic=mac
> ip=192.168.101.3
> kernel=xcat/osimage/hpccn-netboot-image/kernel
> mac=52:54:00:f2:e6:39
> netboot=xbna
> nichostnamesuffixes.eth0=-compute
> nichostnamesuffixes.eth2=-imm
> nicips.eth0=192.168.100.3
> nicips.eth2=192.168.101.3
> os=rhels7.4
> postbootscripts=otherpkgs,confignics
> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
> primarynic=mac
> profile=hpccn
> provmethod=hpccn-netboot-image
> serialport=0
> serialspeed=115200
> status=shell
> statustime=10-30-2017 08:37:51
>
> And the osimage definition:
>
> Object name: hpccn-netboot-image
> exlist=/install/custom/netboot/rh/hpccn.rhels7.4.x86_64.exlist
> imagetype=linux
> osarch=x86_64
> osdistroname=rhels7.4-x86_64
> osname=Linux
> osvers=rhels7.4
> otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/rhels7.4/x86_64
> otherpkglist=/install/custom/netboot/rh/hpccn.rhels7.4.x86_
> 64.otherpkgs.pkglist
> partitionfile=/install/custom/netboot/rh/hpccn.rhels7.4.x86_
> 64.cfglocaldisk
> permission=755
> pkgdir=/install/rhels7.4/x86_64
> pkglist=/install/custom/netboot/rh/hpccn.rhels7.4.x86_64.pkglist
> postinstall=/install/custom/netboot/rh/hpccn.rhels7.4.x86_
> 64.postinstall
> profile=hpccn
> provmethod=netboot
> rootimgdir=/install/netboot/rhels7.4/x86_64/hpccn
> synclists=/install/custom/netboot/rh/hpccn.rhels7.4.x86_64.synclist
>
> The node gets the correct IP address from DHCP, and xnba booting works,
> but then goes to the genesis kernel (which either stops booting, or goes to
> the shell if I add chain=shell), as the Apache log file shows:
>
> 192.168.101.3 - - [30/Oct/2017:08:34:55 -0700] "GET
> /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/192.168.101.0_24 HTTP/1.1" 200 245 "-"
> "iPXE/1.0.3-131028 (d603e)"
> 192.168.101.3 - - [30/Oct/2017:08:34:55 -0700] "GET
> /tftpboot/xcat/genesis.kernel.x86_64 HTTP/1.1" 200 4152336 "-"
> "iPXE/1.0.3-131028 (d603e)"
> 192.168.101.3 - - [30/Oct/2017:08:34:55 -0700] "GET
> /tftpboot/xcat/genesis.fs.x86_64.gz HTTP/1.1" 200 36402928 "-"
> "iPXE/1.0.3-131028 (d603e)"
>
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