Re: [CentOS] cannot kickstart centos 6 on Dell Blade error cannot find c0t0

2014-04-17 Thread m . roth
Dan Hyatt wrote:
 I have an intermittent problem with my Dell blades, out of 80 blades 69
 of them kickstarted Centos 6 fine using PXE
 The other 11, I get a   c0t0 not found error  (indicating it is not
 finding the local disk on the blade).
snip
 Since the kickstart file defines the disk as sda1  I am supposing that
 it is really a hardware problem.
snip
Nahhh... First, I suspect that those 11 blades are a slightly different 
model - newer, or whatever. When we first got some Dell R720s was when we
ran into CentOS calling the NIC em1 instead of eth0, while *other*
R-series servers we got the same time were still eth0.

I'm afraid you're going to have to put conditionals into the ks, or maybe,
the way we do, write a CGI that creates one on the fly, to tell it to look
for those drives under those names. *shrug* We did just that in our CGI,
and chose CentOS 6, 64 bit, R720 for them.

mark

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Re: [CentOS] cannot kickstart centos 6 on Dell Blade error cannot find c0t0

2014-04-17 Thread Steven Tardy
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Dan Hyatt dhy...@dsgmail.wustl.edu wrote:

 I have an intermittent problem with my Dell blades, out of 80 blades 69
 of them kickstarted Centos 6 fine using PXE
 The other 11, I get a   c0t0 not found error  (indicating it is not
 finding the local disk on the blade).

 I can remote mount the iso image and do a basic install of centos on
 these blades, but when I go to do a pxe boot it gives me that error again.

 I have googled the issue and come up empty handed. Dell told us to
 install centos 6 minimal ISO  then pxe install the server. This has been
 unsuccessful. I get the local ISO to install but the pxe fails again.

 Since the kickstart file defines the disk as sda1  I am supposing that
 it is really a hardware problem.
 But I am told by coworkers who handed it off to me that it is a known
 issue with centos and Dell blades.

 These are two internal disks on the blade.

 Any suggestions?



install working blade from .iso
install non-working blade from .iso
diff anaconda-ks.cfg.working ananconda-ks.cfg.non-working
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