I don't recall having any issues with R7525s and CentOS 8.2. We are on latest stable xcat release.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 7:59 AM David Baker <d.j.ba...@soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Hello, > > We are using xcat 2.13 to install RH 7.9 on a new Dell AMD Poweredge > machine. > > First, I should mention that we have been able to do a diskless install on > the node. That was very smooth, and the node was up and able to run the > postscripts after a couple of minutes. That was just a sanity test to see > if we could bring up the IB, the GPFS, etc on the node. > > We would prefer to do a diskfull installation on this node since it is a > login node. Attempting to do a diskfull installation has been painful. We > don't even get to the point where the disk partitions are created -- the > process stalled as the services are being started in the installation > environment. For the moment we have switched to Dell's LIfecycle controller > and that may be our best way forward. > > I do wonder, however, if anyone has managed to use xcat to complete a > diskfull installation one of these Poweredge machines. If we can do all the > installation work in xcat then that would be best. Please let us know if > you have any experience or advice to share with us in this respect. > > Best regards, > David > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >
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