Hello Nate, Yes, strange thing is that redhat installation works out-of-box.
To verify your suspect I checked sles12.3 network (standart) installation and
ran into the same problem as for sles12.{4, 5} The xNBA is loaded, the networks
gets configured, but the additional DHCP request fails and therefore the
installation. (I attached the console output below. I also set the
debuglevel=2, but I couldn’t find anything useful in computes.log).
As the SLES installer is running into this a problem with the installer program
or does the nXBA didn’ t prepare the install environment correctly? The NIC is
newer card (QLogic 2x1GE+2x10GE QL41264HMCU CNA) is there something to be
configured to work with xnba?
I can install sles12.{3,4,5} to older HW and VMs without problems.
For the patching I was actually a bit lazy and tried
https://github.com/xcat2/xNBA/issues/2#issuecomment-720693322 the files in
comment of chonx. Theses binaries didn’t help.
Does the procedure on this page:
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6567 is the one to use to create the
patched xnba?
Cheers,
-Frank
From: Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com>
Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2021 14:25
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hi Frank,
If you are able to provision the nodes with both diskless and diskfull images
of RHEL 7.{7,8}, you probably do not need the xNBA patches.
The newest version of SLES 12 that is officially supported by xCAT is SLES
12.3, so it is possible that changes between SLES 12.3 and 12.{4,5} might be
involved.
Are you able to successfully install the nodes with SLES 12.3?
You might also be able to get some more detailed debug information by enabling
xcatdebugmode in the site table and then watching the node boot process with
xcatprobe osdeploy -n NODENAME.
# Set xcatdebugmode to 1 using tabedit
tabedit site
tabdump site | grep xcatdebugmode
"xcatdebugmode","1",,
# Start the node install using rinstall or rpower, then watch the install
process using:
xcatprobe osdeploy -n NODENAME
Nate
"Heckes, Frank" ---02/03/2021 05:20:14 PM---Hello Nate, I replace the xnba
files with the one provided here:
From: "Heckes, Frank" <hec...@mps.mpg.de <mailto:hec...@mps.mpg.de> >
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Date: 02/03/2021 05:20 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
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Hello Nate,
I replace the xnba files with the one provided here:
https://www.xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xNBA/
both bios and uefi boot failed again in the same scenario.
I also recreated an ipxe.efi binary as described here
(https://github.com/Hoeze/ipxe), but I guess it’s the same binary
as for the link above. Here the efi boot failed, too.
I’m currently using xCAT version 2.15.
Does the latest version contain the patches or even newer supporting the latest
generation of dell r640?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
-Frank
From: Heckes, Frank <hec...@mps.mpg.de <mailto:hec...@mps.mpg.de> >
Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:59
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<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> >
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hello Nate,
Many thanks for your quick reply.
No the nodes affected are all new HW. Interestingly it works with a RHEL7.{7,8}
install and netboot (ramfs).
An older bare-metal node and VMs are still working with a sles12.{4,5}. Many
thanks for the pointer, I forgot to query the github. I’ll check the patches.
Cheers,
-Frank
From: Nathan A Besaw <bes...@us.ibm.com <mailto:bes...@us.ibm.com> >
Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:48
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hi Frank,
Have you successfully installed these nodes using xCAT previously or is this is
a new cluster?
If these are newer x86 servers, you may need the patches discussed here:
<https://github.com/xcat2/xNBA/issues/2#issuecomment-720693322>
https://github.com/xcat2/xNBA/issues/2#issuecomment-720693322
Nate
"Heckes, Frank" ---02/03/2021 02:39:13 PM---Hi all, I’ve a problem installing
sles12.4 or 12.5 on our compute nodes (Dell PowerEdge R640). The i
From: "Heckes, Frank" < <mailto:hec...@mps.mpg.de> hec...@mps.mpg.de>
To: " <mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net"
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Date: 02/03/2021 02:39 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
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Hi all,
I’ve a problem installing sles12.4 or 12.5 on our compute nodes (Dell PowerEdge
R640). The installation breaks after successfully downloading the initrd,
kernel (via http) and xnba.kpxe file (via tftp).
The installation stops with the linuxrc – tui, immediately after querying for
an IP Address via dhcp. It is possible to start a shell and verify that the
network is up and running (see below).
I don’t see any logfile in the mounted initrd file,and no hint raising the xCAT
debug level to 2.
Does anyone ran into this problem before and has a workaround or at least an
idea how-to enable logging to find the root cause.
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
-Frank Heckes
Expert Mode -> show config
. . .
network interface states: ▒││ │
│ ││ lo: up ▒││ │
│ ││ eth0: setup-in-progress ▒││ │
│ ││ eth1: device-unconfigured ▒││ │
│ ││ eth2: device-unconfigured ▒││ │
│ ││ eth3: device-unconfigured
Expert Mode -> start shell
Tail of var/log/boot.msg
<6>[ 94.467797] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth0
<5>[ 94.508878] [qede_link_update:2409(eth0)]Link is up
<6>[ 94.508923] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Interface is up and can ping xCAT mgmt. node:
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group
default qlen 1000
link/ether 34:80:0d:c1:93:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 134.XX.XXX.XXX/21 brd 134.XX.XXX.XXX scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::3680:dff:fec1:9300/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
ping 134.XX.XXX.244
PING 134.XXX.XXX.XXX (134.XX.XXX.244) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 134.XX.XXX.244: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.147 ms
64 bytes from 134.xx.XXX.244: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.246 ms
64 bytes from 134.XX.XXX.244: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.200 ms
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