I don't know if this is your issue, but I had similar symptoms recently
while testing RHEL/CentOS 7 images on our cluster that has worked for
years just fine with CentOS 6.x. I found that my problem had something
to do with console redirection. For some reason systemd was hanging
while trying to send console messages to the SOL. If I disabled that
redirection by deleting the nodehm.cons attribute for the node that I
was testing then the node booted fine. If you can do that and find that
it works then you'll know what is wrong and you can probably find out
from somebody at Lenovo how that is supposed to be configured. The
hardware where I'm having this problem is from SuperMicro so I'm on my
own for figuring out how it is supposed to work.
Mike
On 7/3/18 2:26 PM, Sam Davis wrote:
I have left it trying to boot overnight with no success. I did find
earlier I was getting an NTP error during the boot cycle. I configure
ntpd on the management node and the client node reports syncing early
in the boot process now.
*From:* david_john...@brown.edu <david_john...@brown.edu>
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 03, 2018 4:01 PM
*To:* xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
*Subject:* Re: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.
So a quick question is how long is never? I had a similar situation
today and the setupntp script was taking a really long time but
finally gave up. The problem for me was that chronyd was not
configured on the management node to respond on any network
interfaces. Chronyd has replaced ntpd on redhat 7.
-- ddj
Dave Johnson
On Jul 3, 2018, at 2:55 PM, Sam Davis <aractha...@gmail.com
<mailto:aractha...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to setup a new HPC cluster using XCAT (2.14). I
have installed the management node and created the boot image
(RHEL 7.5). The node has been discover and PXE boots, downloading
the image file. But the boot process stalls and never finishes.
I have even copied over a working RHEL 7.3 image from our other
cluster to see if that is the issue. I’ve tried disabling and
enabling hyperthreading in the client machine. I’ve also updated
the firmware on the client machine. Does anyone have any ideas of
what I might try next?
Node Hardware
IBM x3850 X5
256 GB RAM
Machine Type 7143 AC1
4 x Intell Xeon E7 4820
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