Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline and network drivers during initrd time

2016-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Supporting_driver_update_disk_for_Linux/ does not support Ubuntu. ThanksBest Regards--Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋)IBM China System Technology LaboratoryTel: 86-10-82453455Email: w...@cn.ibm.comAddress: 28,

Re: [xcat-user] issue when installing node

2016-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
From symptom looks like your eth0 booted from dhcp and it faild to get ip from dhcpd. You may find dhcp failed log when this issue happens. ThanksBest Regards--Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋)IBM China System Technology LaboratoryTel: 86-10-824

Re: [xcat-user] issue when installing node

2016-01-12 Thread Damir Krstic
Yes all deployed from single management using commands like: nodeadd gpu[1-6] same thing for makehosts and makedns. That's why it's so weird and confusing that only one mode is having this issue. Before I left work today I redeployed this mode using our compute stateless image and that worked ok.

Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline and network drivers during initrd time

2016-01-12 Thread Russell Jones
This is already supported: http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Supporting_driver_update_disk_for_Linux/ On 1/12/2016 4:43 PM, Russell Auld wrote: Could this approach be used to get vendor-supplied network drivers into the PXE sequence? Or the RH Anaconda installation kernel? *From:*Russell

Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline and network drivers during initrd time

2016-01-12 Thread Russell Auld
Could this approach be used to get vendor-supplied network drivers into the PXE sequence? Or the RH Anaconda installation kernel? From: Russell Jones [mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 6:33 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline a

Re: [xcat-user] issue when installing node

2016-01-12 Thread Casandra H Qiu
are all the 6 nodes defined on the same MN? check if the failed node defined in the /etc/hosts. make sure you ran makedns and makedhcp and compare node definition use lsdef command. Thanks, Casandra ... Casandra Hong Qiu Phone: (8

[xcat-user] issue when installing node

2016-01-12 Thread Damir Krstic
Hi, When installing new batch of GPU nodes via xCAT I've ran into an issue I have not seen before. Out of 6 NextScale nx360m4 nodes with k80 GPUs all installed OK (nodeset osimage=gpu6.6) except one. Symptoms of the issue: node installs OK (watching it via rcons/wcons) but on the reboot eth0 doe

Re: [xcat-user] nextscale nx360m4 GPU not booting from hard drive after installation

2016-01-12 Thread Damir Krstic
they are using pxe - i have traced the issue down to upgrade of kernel. initial install was redhat 6.6 kernel 504. after updating kernel to 504.16 node would not boot. i have to hook up the console to the node to see what it is doing - remote console does not show much information. i've reinstalled

Re: [xcat-user] nextscale nx360m4 GPU not booting from hard drive after installation

2016-01-12 Thread Rich Sudlow
On 01/11/2016 07:11 PM, Damir Krstic wrote: > Hi, > > Installing 6 new GPU NextScale nodes...installation went fine but on the > reboot > nodes get stuck after going through POST. Nothing on the console as far as I > can > tell. Tried changing boot order to hard disk first and also changing from

Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline and network drivers during initrd time

2016-01-12 Thread Russell Jones
Ubuntu 14.04.2 on xCAT 2.10. It's pretty obvious the issue, if you look at the init script that xCAT creates for the initrd, it does a blind "insmod" without ever checking if there's extra parameters in the cmdline. On 11.01.2016 20:41, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: > Which OS were you deploying?

Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu preseed gpt partitioning

2016-01-12 Thread John Keenleyside
Eli,   Sort of. I found that if LVM wasn't installed on the disk then the overwrite happened automatically. I didn't dig further since I didn't need LVM for the root disk.   John Keenleyside      - Original message -From: Eli Barb To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.netCc:Subject: Re: [xcat-use