Could you unset nodehm.serialport for that node and see what output shows? -----Original Message----- From: Thomas HUMMEL <thomas.hum...@pasteur.fr> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 8:35 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [External] [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16 / CentOS 8.2 stateful install PXE issues
Hello, Using xCAT 2.16 on CentOS 8.2 x86_64 I did successfully update my stateless osimages from CentOS 8.1 to CentOS 8.2. For my UEFI booting nodes to successfully boot, I installed the following patches to workaround the elilo 8MB kernel limit : - https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/blob/master/elilo/elilo-xcat-3.14-5.noarch.rpm - https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6772/commits/76a57eaae28b651560ea2da5fa55298a3a38c581 I'm tried to do the same with stateful nodes : - on a physical node, the PXE install did at first fail after the fetching of the initrd (stalled at the switch root step - then host did reboot). I then reverted to a 8.1 osimage to make sure nothing was broken : it worked I then retried a 8.2 osimage (changing nothing) and it did succeed. Now I'm trying the same with a centos-8.2 stateful image install but on a VMWare VM (which pxe boots in bios mode) : a similar (but without any message) issue occurs : process is stalled after the initrd fetch - see attached screenshot) I know Centos-8.2 is not listed as an officially supported OS but do you have any clue of what I could try to fix this PXE issue ? (booting the VM in UEFI mode did not solve anything) ? Thansks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
