On 23/09/2021 15:12, Mark Gurevich wrote:
Thomas, have you tried using iPXE version 2.21.1 as suggested by kcgthb
in https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7036
Hello,
I tried the rpm you provided in the above issue :
# md5sum xnba-undi-1.21.1-1.noarch.rpm
88cfc461e92d67a0a7347345d8c64adb xnba-undi-1.21.1-1.noarch.rpm
it indeed works for:
physical netboot
physical discover (genesis)
but I still have the following strange behavior with a stateful VMWare
VM (UEFI boot):
starting a freshly created VM I:
1)
- configure boot order : network first, disk second
- nodeset <node> osimage=<osimage>
- boot the VM
-> I can see tftp of xNBA in MN logs
-> tcpdump shows the expected boot file name (xnba.efi) in the DHCPOFFER
response
- installation starts
- machine ends up, as expected with boot order inverted (disk first,
network second)
2) I then just change again boot order in UEFI firmware (network first,
disk second)
- reboot the machine
-> console shows Attempting to start up from EFI network...
-> no tftp in MN logs
-> tcp dump shows 'boot file name not given' in the several DHCPOFFER
responses
- firwmare eventually ends up booting on the second target (disk) after
some timeout I guess
After 1) as I always experienced, only the file without the .uefi
extension gets changed *to run only 'exit' in order for the stateful
machine to just pass on to the next target I guess) in
/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/<node> : the <node>.uefi file still contains
the iPXE script instructing to fetch osimage...which seesm dangerous to
me for stateful install in the event the latter would get http fetched,
but I guess this is another topic.
Note:
logs complain about duplicate lease
2021-09-30T17:28:06.893678+02:00 maestro-xcat dhcpd[1966303]: uid lease
192.168.145.126 for client 00:50:56
:b5:ac:de is duplicate on eth0
but from what I see in the leases file, 2 entries match the mac: the
'static' one (matching the xCAT node's mac attribute and associated to
the node expected ip address, i.e. coming from makedhcp <node>, and one
in the pool of dynamic range ip addresses but with an expired end date.
Can you help me figuring out what's going on ?
And thanks again for the new xNBA which fixes most of the previous issues.
--
Thomas HUMMEL
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