The vendor's firmware is acting fine, there's nothing it could do to
get the boot to progress as is. If you did xnba style booting legacy,
a similara thing would occurr. The issue is we started doing xnba as a
way to reduce tftp compared to pxelinux, and when UEFI came along we
were already quite attached to http-booting so we only did an xnba-
style UEFI.
So the difference is between xnba-style and pxelinux-style rather than
UEFI and Legacy. xnba does require the more convoluted dhcp
configuration, but we were mostly thinking of xCAT auto-configured dhcp
servers so it wasn't seen as much of a downside at the time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carmelo Ponti (CSCS) <cpo...@cscs.ch>
Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] UEFI installation problem
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 11:55:25 +0200
Jarrod,
In the meantime I ask the vendor the new firmware and now I'm still
getting the same error via UEFI but I can install the server in legacy
mode.
If you have any suggestions to try via UEFI I will try them otherwise I
will keep the server in legacy mode.
Thank you,
Carmelo
On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 10:18 +0200, Carmelo Ponti (CSCS) wrote:
> Jarrod,
>
> on our xCAT server (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5) I'm
> using the official redhat DHCP server (dhcp-4.2.5-68.el7_5.1.x86_64).
> The only customization is that I don't use the xCAT
> /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file but I created an other directory call
> /etc/dhcp.cscs in order to server all our dhcp client (also the ones
> not controlled by xCAT). Following an example of our configuration:
>
> # cat /etc/dhcp.cscs/dhcpd.conf
> #
> ddns-update-style none;
>
> option domain-name "cscs.ch";
> option domain-name-servers 148.187.x.x, 148.187.x.x;
>
> default-lease-time 14400; # 4 hours
> max-lease-time 86400; # 1 day
>
> log-facility local7;
>
> ##########################
> # EFI
> ##########################
> option space PXE;
> option PXE.mtftp-ip code 1 = ip-address;
> option PXE.mtftp-cport code 2 = unsigned integer 16;
> option PXE.mtftp-sport code 3 = unsigned integer 16;
> option PXE.mtftp-tmout code 4 = unsigned integer 8;
> option PXE.mtftp-delay code 5 = unsigned integer 8;
> option arch code 93 = unsigned integer 16; # RFC4578
> ##########################
> # END EFI
> ##########################
>
> subnet 148.187.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> option routers 148.187.1.2;
> option domain-name-servers 148.187.x.x, 148.187.x.x;
> }
>
> subnet 148.187.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.128 {
> option routers 148.187.2.2;
> option domain-name-servers 148.187.x.x, 148.187.x.x;
> }
>
> ....
>
> include "/etc/dhcp.cscs/dhcp-conf-dir/cluster1.conf";
> include "/etc/dhcp.cscs/dhcp-conf-dir/cluster2.conf";
> include ...
>
> where /etc/dhcp.cscs/dhcp-conf-dir/cluster1.conf
>
> host server01.cscs.ch {
> hardware ethernet 90:E2:BA:A1:56:F4; # 10G ETH0 NIC
> fixed-address 148.187.x.x;
> filename "xcat/xnba.efi";
> next-server 148.187.x.x;
> }
>
> or /etc/dhcp.cscs/dhcp-conf-dir/cluster2.conf
>
> host servername01.cscs.ch {
> hardware ethernet 08:94:EF:5F:E0:CC;
> fixed-address 148.187.x.x;
> next-server 148.187.x.x;
> filename "pxelinux.0";
> }
>
> and so on.
>
> Unfortunately the server01 has this strange behavior.
>
> Carmelo
>
> On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 16:54 +0000, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> > Is the external DHCP server ISC or other?
> >
> > Can you share how you tried to do the adaptive DHCPOFFER with
> > different filenames depending on the request?
> >
> > In the future, I hope to provide ProxyDHCP which would allow direct
> > DHCP OFFER control for PXE filename without imposing on addressing,
> > but for now...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carmelo Ponti (CSCS) <cpo...@cscs.ch>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 12:09 PM
> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] UEFI installation problem
> >
> > Jarrod,
> >
> > On Thu, 2018-06-07 at 15:00 +0000, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
> > > Is that preceeded by a lot of the same output over and over?
> >
> > Yes, I'm seeing the same message many times
> >
> > > I see xnba downloading xnba, which should not be
> > > happening…. Dhcp
> > > should be doing a different offer…
> >
> > We are using a centralized DHCP at CSCS (not the one offered by
> > xCAT).
> > I tried to configure it to respect the xCAT rules but maybe I'm
> > doing
> > something wrong. Any advice?
> >
> > Carmelo
> >
> > >
> > > From: Carmelo Ponti (CSCS) <cpo...@cscs.ch>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 10:21 AM
> > > To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [External] [xcat-user] UEFI installation problem
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I would like to install a intel server board S2600WT (BIOS
> > > version
> > > SE5C610.86B.01.01.0011 08/10/2015) using xcat with UEFI but I got
> > > the
> > > following error at the console:
> > >
> > > xCAT Network Boot Agent
> > > iPXE 1.0.3-131028 (d603e) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmare --
> > > http
> > > ://ipxe.org
> > > Features: HTTP HTTPS iSCSI DNS TFTP EFI
> > > net1: 90:e2:ba:a1:56:f4 using <NULL> on EFI SNP (open) [Link:up,
> > > TX:0
> > > TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0] DHCP (net1 90:e2:ba:a1:56:f4) ...... ok Next
> > > server:
> > > 148.187.xxx.xxx
> > > Filename: xcat/xnba.efi
> > > tftp://148.187.xxx.xxx/xcat/xnba.efi ... ok Could not boot
> > > image:
> > > Error 0x7f38e002 (http:/ipxe/org/7f38e002) No more network
> > > devices
> > > Could not boot image: Error 0x7f048002 (http:/ipxe/org/7f048002)
> > > No
> > > more network devices
> > >
> > > Currently I'm using xCAT 2.13 and following the server
> > > configuration:
> > >
> > > Object name: server01
> > > arch=x86_64
> > > bmc=148.187.xxx.xxx
> > > bmcpassword=xxxxxx
> > > bmcusername=root
> > > cons=kvm
> > > currchain=boot
> > > currstate=install rhels7.4-x86_64-cscs_storage
> > > groups=all,cscs
> > > hostnames=server01.cscs.ch
> > > interface=eno1
> > > ip=148.187.xxx.xxx
> > > mac=90:e2:ba:a1:56:f4
> > > mgt=ipmi
> > > netboot=xnba
> > > nfsserver=148.187.xxx.xxx
> > > nodetype=osi
> > > os=rhels7.4
> > > postbootscripts=otherpkgs
> > > postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles
> > > power=ipmi
> > > primarynic=eno1
> > > profile=cscs_storage
> > > provmethod=rhels7.4-x86_64-install-cscs_storage
> > > status=powering-on
> > > statustime=06-07-2018 15:49:19
> > > tftpdir=/tftpboot
> > > tftpserver=148.187.xxx.xxx
> > >
> > > dhcp is configured as following:
> > >
> > > host server01.cscs.ch {
> > > hardware ethernet 90:E2:BA:A1:56:F4; # 10G ETH0 NIC
> > > fixed-address 148.187.xxx.xxx;
> > > filename "xcat/xnba.efi";
> > > next-server 148.187.xxx.xxx;
> > > }
> > >
> > > When I ran "nodeset server01 osimage=rhels7.4-x86_64-install-
> > > cscs_storage"
> > >
> > > The following 3 files are created in /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes :
> > >
> > > server01
> > > server01.elilo
> > > server01.uefi
> > >
> > > I'm suspecting a problem with the BIOS version but I'm not sure.
> > >
> > > Thank you for any advice,
> > >
> > > Carmelo Ponti
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
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