Hello, We have some issues deploying compute nodes on a CentOS 8.1 cluster with xCAT 2.16.
First, OS installation takes a lot of time, in the xcat.log file there are a lot of « updateflag.awk : retrying flag update » messages after the confignetwork postscript execution. They last for about 17 minutes. Then, there are also issues when attempting to deploy an osimage to the compute nodes. Some attempts fail to happen, the node will just boot from hard drive without reason. When installing multiple nodes at once, a lot of them will fail to boot the installer environment, and will instead boot to emergency mode. This issue is resolved by rebooting the faulty nodes until the installation is successful. Does anyone know what could be the cause for these issues ? It looks like there is a network problem here but I’m not sure where to look at... By the way, the compute nodes are configured to have bonded interfaces on the main internal network that is also used for OS deployment. Are there any considerations or special configuration to be done in that case ? The bonding is successfully configured and fonctional at boot. Best regards, Antoine Huette HPC engineer Bechtle _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
