as a test, you might want to see if adding quiet to the arguments changes anything.
Without flow control, I'm not seeing why it should slow things down, but it will be something too try. A general slowness in booting is very peculiar. On March 14, 2019 3:44:43 PM Angelo Cavalcanti <angelo.cavalca...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Jarrod, I'm using netboot via PXE: # cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/gn001 #netboot centos7.6-x86_64-gpu-compute DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/osimage/centos7.6-x86_64-netboot-gpu-compute/kernel APPEND initrd=xcat/osimage/centos7.6-x86_64-netboot-gpu-compute/initrd-stateless.gz imgurl=http://10.1.0.254:80//install/netboot/centos7.6/x86_64/gpu-compute/rootimg.cpio.gz XCAT=10.1.0.254:3001<http://10.1.0.254:3001> NODE=n001 FC=0 XCATHTTPPORT=80 console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200 IPAPPEND 2 Regards, -- Angelo Cavalcanti br.linkedin.com/in/angelocr<http://br.linkedin.com/in/angelocr> Em qua, 13 de mar de 2019 às 18:15, Jarrod Johnson <jjohns...@lenovo.com<mailto:jjohns...@lenovo.com>> escreveu: What does the boot kernel get command line wise (e.g. /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/<nodename>) From: Angelo Cavalcanti <angelo.cavalca...@gmail.com<mailto:angelo.cavalca...@gmail.com>> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:23 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [External] [xcat-user] Netboot process stuck Hi everyone, I've setup various nodes to netboot image but one of them stuck in boot process, below: [ 485.127448] systemd[1]: Reached target Sockets. [ 515.134248] systemd[1]: Started Journal Service. [ 635.252091] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. [ 635.258163] RPC: Registered udp transport module. [ 635.263004] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. [ 635.267847] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. [ 845.308189] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered [ 845.313333] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giome...@linux.it<mailto:giome...@linux.it>> [ 845.325629] PTP clock support registered [ 845.332035] dca service started, version 1.12.1 [ 845.343852] mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX core driver v4.0-0 [ 845.349585] mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:04:00.0 [ 845.364042] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver - version 5.4.0-k [ 845.368351] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 6 ports 6 Gbps 0x3f impl SATA mode [ 845.368355] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf pm led clo pio slum part ems apst [ 845.380249] scsi host0: ahci [ 845.380938] scsi host1: ahci [ 845.382757] scsi host2: ahci [ 845.383161] scsi host3: ahci [ 845.386805] scsi host4: ahci [ 845.387739] scsi host5: ahci [ 845.387852] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xde100000 port 0xde100100 irq 39 [ 845.387855] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xde100000 port 0xde100180 irq 39 [ 845.387857] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xde100000 port 0xde100200 irq 39 [ 845.387860] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xde100000 port 0xde100280 irq 39 [ 845.387862] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xde100000 port 0xde100300 irq 39 [ 845.387865] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xde100000 port 0xde100380 irq 39 [ 845.451810] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation. [ 845.511186] igb 0000:81:00.0: added PHC on eth0 [ 845.515869] igb 0000:81:00.0: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Connection [ 845.522896] igb 0000:81:00.0: eth0: (PCIe:5.0Gb/s:Width x4) 00:25:90:6c:a8:a2 [ 845.530236] igb 0000:81:00.0: eth0: PBA No: 104900-000 [ 845.535510] igb 0000:81:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 8 rx queue(s), 8 tx queue(s) [ 845.598681] igb 0000:81:00.1: added PHC on eth1 [ 845.603379] igb 0000:81:00.1: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Connection [ 845.610404] igb 0000:81:00.1: eth1: (PCIe:5.0Gb/s:Width x4) 00:25:90:6c:a8:a3 [ 845.617768] igb 0000:81:00.1: eth1: PBA No: 104900-000 [ 845.623050] igb 0000:81:00.1: Using MSI-X interrupts. 8 rx queue(s), 8 tx queue(s) [ 845.694180] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 845.699730] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 845.705276] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 845.710813] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) [ 845.717162] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 845.722738] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) [ 845.728523] ata1.00: ATA-8: ST91000640NS, SN03, max UDMA/133 [ 845.734330] ata1.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) [ 845.742162] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 845.746833] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST91000640NS SN03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 845.791663] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 845.799600] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 845.804545] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 845.820557] sda: sda1 sda2 [ 845.823892] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 851.888095] mlx4_core 0000:04:00.0: Old device ETS support detected [ 851.894490] mlx4_core 0000:04:00.0: Consider upgrading device FW. [ 852.632012] mlx4_core 0000:04:00.0: PCIe link speed is 8.0GT/s, device supports 8.0GT/s [ 852.640265] mlx4_core 0000:04:00.0: PCIe link width is x8, device supports x8 [ 852.787509] mlx4_en: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver v4.0-0 [ 945.585085] igb 0000:81:00.0: changing MTU from 1500 to 2044 [ 949.821377] igb 0000:81:00.0 enp129s0f0: igb: enp129s0f0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX [ 950.903525] random: crng init done Notice that the boot process is slow. The machine has the following configuration: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2670 256GB RAM Motherboard Supermicro X9DRG-HF HDD 1TB Mellanox Infiniband ConnectX-3 card (MT27500) GPGPU nVidia Tesla M2075 I removed all off-board cards and HDD. The boot process stays stuck in the same stage. I installed CentOS 7 minimal ISO on HDD and the problem did not occur. 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