Re: [xcat-user] chdef broken in 2.6.11

2012-09-25 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Several comments: 1. -w is used to specify the selection string to filter nodes, in your case, the -w is not right. You should use this: chdef -m -t node -o p7n14-c postbootscripts= 2. otherpkgs is in the xcat default postbootscripts, you can not remove the otherpkgs through chdef , yo

[xcat-user] chdef broken in 2.6.11

2012-09-25 Thread François Bissey
Hi, Looking at some other problem I discovered that my chdef function was broken. The install was initially xcat 2.6.2 and then upgraded to 2.6.11. The problem is as follow: #chdef -m -t node -o p7n14-c -w postbootscript=otherpkgs Error: No type was provided for object 'p7n14-c'. Error: Skipping

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-09-25 Thread François Bissey
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:06:20 Lissa Valletta wrote: > It is best not to put files under /install/postscripts except > postscripts, because that is going to be copied to the nodes, everytime > you run updatenode .Do you see all those files under /xcatpost and are > you sure those 1000 files a

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-09-25 Thread François Bissey
Ended up being extremely busy the last 2 days. On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:06:20 Lissa Valletta wrote: > It is best not to put files under /install/postscripts except > postscripts, because that is going to be copied to the nodes, everytime > you run updatenode .Do you see all those files under

Re: [xcat-user] Node installation documentation added to Wiki; expert attention requested!

2012-09-25 Thread Lissa Valletta
I am confused by the statement "In fact, not a single page on the Wiki explains how xCAT knows what to install on a node." Did you look at the xCAT IDataplex Advanced Setup, it is all about defining, and creating images in the database and installing nodes. The QuickStart was suppose to giv

Re: [xcat-user] Node installation documentation added to Wiki; expert attention requested!

2012-09-25 Thread Craig Finch
Lissa, I agree that information from the Node Install HOWTO should be added to the official xCAT documents. Despite the name, this document is not really a HOWTO. It is a reference document about how xCAT communicates with a new node and how xCAT determines what to install on that node. This info

Re: [xcat-user] Node installation documentation added to Wiki; expert attention requested!

2012-09-25 Thread Lissa Valletta
The document you updated is still a document not supported by the xCAT team. I would prefer you to request the information added to one of the official xCAT docs, that will be maintained and updated by the development team. You can do that by selecting the discussion button while in the docu

[xcat-user] Fw: stateless not getting "Kernel panic - not syncing"

2012-09-25 Thread Nazeer
Hi All, Iam trying to install a stateless node (diskless),  its booting from the kernel & initrd-stateless.gz files and extracting  rootimg.gz   after this iam getting the below error Setting up RAM-root tmpfs tmpfs: Bad value '100*1024*1024' for mount option 'size' mount: Mounting rootfs o

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi 5.1 with xCAT

2012-09-25 Thread Hans-Joachim Ehlers
Could it be a firewall issue on the ESX host ? Can you execute something like "esxcfg-firewall --allowOutgoing" within your kickstart file ? Cheers Hajo -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will co