Re: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.

[Song BJ Yang]

hi Sam, 

 

the status is "netbooting",  means the provision process has stepped over the initrd boot phase and in the root image boot up process.   If only console is lost, the following boot up steps can still continue, what happens if you try to ssh the node?

 

and what is the last entries you see in the /var/log/httpd/access_log on MN when the provision hang? 

 

 

thanks

 

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----- Original message -----
From: "Sam Davis" <aractha...@gmail.com>
To: "'xCAT Users Mailing list'" <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.
Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2018 2:42 AM
 

~]# lsdef node01 -i status

Object name: node01

    status=netbooting

 

Also,  when we try to use rcons on the machine we get the following error:
~]# rcons node01

[Enter `^Ec?' for help]

Acquiring startup lock...done

Info: SOL payload already de-activated

Info: SOL payload disabled

 

I have tried removing the cons setting, to no avail.  The console settings are “115200”.

Group entry from the nodehm table: “"ipmi","ipmi","ipmi",,,,,"0","115200","hard",,,,,,”

Thank you all,

 

  Sam

 

 

 

From: Song BJ Yang <yang...@cn.ibm.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 11:35 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.

 

hi Sam,

 

is the screenshot captured during the rootimg boot up? or during initrd boot up before rootimage tarball is download? please check the status of the node by `lsdef <XX> -i status`

 

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YANG Song (杨嵩)
IBM China System Technology Laboratory
Tel: 86-10-82452903
Email: yang...@cn.ibm.com
Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park,
No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC

北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼
邮编: 100193

 

 

----- Original message -----
From: "Sam Davis" <aractha...@gmail.com>
To: <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
Subject: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.
Date: Wed, Jul 4, 2018 2:56 AM
 

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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