to be overloaded.
On 1/21/2014 10:24 AM, Russell Jones
wrote:
Sorry, forgot to also mention that it takes a while for them all
to leave the Genesis DHCP message "Acquired IPv4 address"
before they actually run the script. When they d
xNBA is a customized gpxe image that xCAT uses.
NBFS is the older maintenance image that was used for if you set your
node to boot to shell, or booted a runimage script. NBFS is deprecated,
and Genesis replaced NBFS as the maintenance image for these tasks.
In a standard 2.8 install, there shou
It *should* work with xNBA and Genesis - xNBA is the PXE image that
loads Genesis. :-)
Genesis is the utility image that handles shell commands, runimages, etc.
Don't confuse NBFS with xNBA - NBFS is deprecated via Genesis. xNBA is
the gpxe image that loads Genesis or your normal OS image depen
xNBA comes from xnba-undi-1.0.3-131028.noarch
Genesis comes from xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64-2.8-snap201308090229.noarch
and xCAT-genesis-scripts-x86_64-2.8.3-snap201311122318.noarch
On 1/22/2014 7:30 AM, Jonathan Mills wrote:
> I still don't know! Because if using the chain-loading, I don't see
I can answer that point from a personal viewpoint - it's just a pain. A
real bad pain, especially when you do not have homogenous switch
models/vendors in the environment. By the time you've finally gotten it
to work you could have just went node to node and hand-written down the
MAC's and popu
Something else that should of course be a given, the /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow files should be synced to your compute nodes that users are
accessing. I do this via the standard xCAT syncfiles method. Whenever a
new user is added I just add them to the MN, then run "updatenode
compute -F" to p
Hi all,
Is it possible to have site.consoleondemand=yes for most nodes, but for
a few have the console permanently connected? I like the idea of having
some of the consoles be connected all of the time due to the console
logging in /var/log/consoles. I don't want to have to have a screen
sessi
Hi all,
Does xCAT support making custom DHCP options available within certain
ranges, and keeping them "sticky" through "makedhcp -n"?
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security in
Just to clarify, this means I could assign some nodes to the "logged"
group, and then run "nodegroupconfig logged console.logging=full", while
nodes that aren't a part of this group can be "nodegroupconfig
non-logged console.logging=interactive"?
On 1/30/2014 7:22 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
http://xcat.sourceforge.net/man5/networks.5.html
**mgtifname**
The interface name of the management/service node facing this
network. !remote! indicates a non-local network for relay DHCP.
"!remote!" is what you want to use be able to define networks that are
not local to the node.
Strange, that's all I use to define remote network blocks and it works
fine. The subnet {} definition gets created, but is not tied into a real
shared-network {} block. A commented out shared-network block is created
like so for remote networks, I'm assuming for internal xcat use:
#shared-networ
Hi all,
I am trying to get some extra network drivers injected into a CentOS 5.4
osimage's initrd.img. I am following the documentation for utilizing
driverupdatesrc to supposedly inject drivers into the initrd.img,
however this is not happening at all with a stateful installation.
During geni
rs injected into a CentOS 5.4From: Russell Jones To: xCAT Users Mailing list , Date: 2014/02/11 04:26Subject: [xcat-user] geninitd not rebuilding initrd, not injecting drivers for stateful osimage
Hi all, I am trying to get some extra network drivers injected into a CentOS 5.4 osimage's
Hi all,
This is kind of a shot in the dark, but I thought I would
send a message and see if there's any ideas on the weird behavior we are
experiencing.
We have a large cluster that consists of a single
master, and 3 service nodes. Each cluster is configured to utilize 1
service node (no ser
ta
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Russell Jones
---02/18/2014 01:32:47 PM--- Hi all,
From: Russell Jones
To: ,
Date: 02/18/2014 01:32 PM
Hi all,
We are noticing that with a service node that is responsible for around
5000 nodes, restarting xcatd takes over an hour and a half due to how
long it takes to generate the dhcp.leases file. This appears to be tied
to how slow omapi is. In xCAT 2.3, it only took about 20 minutes to
res
Hi all,
I have a strange issue with a CentOS 5 compute node that is in a
reinstall loop. I've checked the usual things, such as DNS forward and
reverse resolution, network configuration, etc, and the node should have
no problem talking to it's servicenode/xcatmaster.
I've forced the node to bo
Sorry, just for clarification that's /var/log/messages on the node
showing those messages, not xcat.log.
On 2/25/2014 10:20 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a strange issue with a CentOS 5 compute node that is in a
> reinstall loop. I've checked the usu
ATUS above that file that sets it to 0, and I am not seeing
anywhere else where NODESTATUS could have the potential to be set to
anything but 0.
Thoughts?
On 2/25/2014 10:27 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
> Sorry, just for clarification that's /var/log/messages on the node
> showin
I've figured out what it is. site.nodestatus got set to 0 in our
configuration. This seems to have a side effect of making diskfull nodes
enter an install loop.
Is this expected behavior?
On 2/25/2014 11:08 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
> So I put some breadcrumbs in the autoinst fil
ing about cases where xCAT curated dhcp is inconvenient,
but these cases could be sped up as well.
Russell Jones
---02/25/2014 12:13:15 AM---Hi all, We are noticing that with
a service node that is responsible for around
We do exactly this using runimage's first. We just chain it so that
the nodes configure their controller and partitions how we need it,
reboot, then either install / download the OS
On 28.02.2014 10:45,
Jonathan Mills wrote:
> I've briefly looked into this.
>
> You can't
do it within a kick
Hi all,
We are seeing pretty consistently that when 50+ diskless nodes are
booted against the same single service node, before showing their login
console they all hang for around 5-10 minutes after postscripts run
while the service node is chugging away at using a constant 100% of a
single co
ftware Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West
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Russell Jones
---2014/03/02 13:18:43---Hi all, We are seeing pretty
consistently that when 50+ diskless nodes are
From: Russell Jones
cli
runme.sh
2424 -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 2469692 Mar 3 12:28 cli
./runme.sh: line 2: ./cli: not found
Used version of xCat:
lsxcatd -v
Version 2.7 (svn r11882, built Fri Mar 16 06:32:39 EDT 2012)
Thanks in advance
André
*From:*Russell Jones [mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me]
Hi all,
What is the purpose behind having the service nodes regenerate their
dhcp.leases file on startup of the xcatd service? Is there an option for
disabling this feature? Our leases are already generated for the nodes,
so each time the xcatd process is restarted it causes a 1+ hour outage
f
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Russell Jones
---03/10/2014 05:25:55 PM---Hi Wang, As a followup to this, is
there any additional performance tips or
From: Russell Jones
To: xcat-user@lists.
some time exploring
(promising preliminary results that could bring this sort of
activity down to under 5 seconds instead of minutes).
Russell Jones
---02/26/2014 11:05:19 AM---How would that work for diskless
nodes that use xCAT's DHCP for booti
You can easily add files to the Genesis image, we've added quite a bit,
especially the LVM commands that were missing.
Drop them into /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis in the right
filesystem path, then re-run mknb.
On 4/3/2014 8:49 AM, Engdahl, Rod wrote:
Does that mean that until 2.8
Hi all,
Every time a cluster is redeployed with a diskfull osimage, it takes a
very, very long time due to it rebuilding the initrd for every single
node to include our custom drivers. Example:
[root@master ~]# ps aux | grep cpio
root 22435 0.0 0.0 11296 1288 ?S11:07 0:0
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---2014/04/17 00:22:2
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03:38:06---Unfortu
Hi all,
bmcsetup seems to have a bug where it will pull multiple
userid's if the username contains the same name. Example:
[xCAT
Genesis running on node1 /bin]# ipmitool -d 0 user list 1
ID Name Callin
Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit
1 true false true ADMINISTRATOR
2
ADMIN false false
Thanks Jarrod. Would you mind letting me know what the other mistake
is so I can fix the issue in my copy?
Thanks!
On 25.04.2014 12:27,
Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
> Thanks. I pushed that change. Also noticed
another mistake while I was in there and fixed that.
>
> Russell Jones
Hi all,
Didn't get a response on my last post for this, so thought I would reach
out again. We have a customer that is interested in utilizing xCAT to
deploy and run jobs in a cloud provider of some sort. Does xCAT support
deployment into any cloud provider's infrastructure?
Thanks!
-
f "deployment into any
cloud provider's infrastructure" ?
Thanks,
Ling
From: Russell Jones
To: xCAT Users Mailing list ,
Date: 05/05/2014 02:56 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Cloud bursting
Hi all,
Didn't get a
/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Using_xCAT_in_OpenStack_Baremetal_Node_Deployment
In addition to this, xCAT also has the support to setup OpenStack
cloud.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Deploying_OpenStack
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Ling
From: Russell Jones
To
hat but you get the gist. :-)
The VMWare how-to in xCAT is close to what I am trying to achieve.
On 5/5/2014 4:36 PM, John van Ommen wrote:
What about RackSpace? They're OpenStack.
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Russell Jones
mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me>> wrote:
Tha
Hi Ling,
No, I am talking about the ability to deploy additional compute nodes
into "a cloud" from xCAT (like the Rocks EC2 roll is designed to do).
On 5/6/2014 8:11 AM, Ling Gao wrote:
So are you talking about deploying infrastructure node into an
existing cloud? Meaning xCAT deploys a st
Hi Linda,
Exactly! I think VMs would be an easier way of "dynamically" growing the
compute cluster than physical nodes due to the inherent "more are always
instantly available" nature, but of course that depends heavily on the
workload one is looking to place on the cloud nodes and if VMs are
Hi all,
We have some customer sites that are using xCAT 2.5 that cannot be
updated at this time. We are beginning to run into hardware drivers that
need a kernel newer than 2.6.18-164 to work under nbfs. Are there newer
nbkernel versions available? I've downloaded the latest dependency
tarball
Lissa,
The Dynamic DNS documentation wording is a bit confusing given that it
still uses Bind9 as the underlying DNS service. This is probably why he
is mentioning Bind.
On 5/14/2014 12:01 PM, Lissa Valletta wrote:
The DNS master slave support in xCAT makedns is only for management
node a
Hi all,
Is there a "supported" way of adding additional DNS records to the
cluster zone file that are not necessarily related to the cluster
itself? For example, we need to add an NS record to point a specific A
record to a different DNS server, but I am unable to find a way of doing
this asid
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all, Is there a "supported" way of adding additional DNS reRussell
Jones ---2014/08/19 03:25
Thanks Lisa.
I know how to add extra A records. The problem I am facing is adding an
"NS" record. How do I add an "NS" record to the zone file that will
stick and not be removed when "makedns -n" is ran?
On 8/21/2014 5:53 AM, Lissa Valletta wrote:
Setting up the hosts table and using makeh
Just wanted to bump this back up. Is there support for "NS" records to
be managed by the management server, or do I need to have an external
DNS server for this ability?
On 8/21/2014 9:20 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
Thanks Lisa.
I know how to add extra A records. The problem I am
You can configure this by chdef -t osimage $OSIMAGE
pkglist=/install/custom.. This will update the necessary table for
you. For Linux images it'll be the linuximage table.
You can see a full list of all configurable options for osimage with
"chdef -h -t osimage"
On 9/8/2014 2:27 PM, Ma
Zoie,
I've been able to successfully get bmcsetup to support several various
hardware platforms with a little bit of tweaking in the bmcsetup script.
If you look in the script you will see where it looks for model / vendor
id and performs different functions based on those ID's. Figure out wha
I use postscripts for this, specifically the pre-provided setupscratch
postscript edited to use ext4. Postscripts can be considered "clean" as
long as you implement them properly :-)
On 10/6/2014 11:28 AM, Dennis Zheleznyak wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know what is the best or the proper way to
This is a good start. It's a little bit old and does some things in a
different way than I would, but the overall information in it is great:
http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guide
On 10/16/2014 2:35 PM, John Hosie wrote:
I'm working on a government contract to support an HPC enviro
Unless I am misunderstanding the question, the IPMI interface itself has
little to do with if the node can PXE boot aside from making remote
management easier.
If, when you are booting the nodes into "runcmd=bmcsetup" it is failing,
then boot the node to shell (nodeset $node shell), login over
Hi all,
I ran into an issue with the Genesis kernel not containing seemingly any
network drivers that KVM uses (I tried every nic type). I added the
Virtio drivers to the Genesis kernel utilizing Jarrod's instructions on
how to use the Genesis Builder script, and that seemed to work fine.
My q
xCAT 2.9
Hi all,
I have a centos 6.6 image with the following
contents in the synclist file for the osimage:
/install/custom/v6.6.0-dl-compute-apu/sync/etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf
-> /etc/modprobe.d/lustre.conf
APPEND:
/install/custom/v6.6.0-dl-compute-apu/sync/etc/fstab -> /etc/fstab
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m, 845-433-5692
"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
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From: Russell Jones
To:
Date: 01/27/2015 05:31 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 Syncfiles error
xCAT 2.9
Hi all,
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When attempting to use pscp on a newly installed 2.9 cluster, I am
getting the following error:
[root@evxcat ~]# pscp test n0:/root/
sh:
-c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
sh: -c: line 0: `scp
-o BatchMode=yes ARRAY(0x27e1ce8): 2>&1'
ARRAY(0x27e1ce8): done
This is
on a CentOS
Just an FYI, I just did a quick clean install of 2.9 on a fairly basic
CentOS 6.6 image and get the same error.
On 2/3/2015 1:46 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
When attempting to use pscp on a newly installed 2.9 cluster, I am
getting the following error:
[root@evxcat ~]# pscp test n0:/root/
sh
m, 845-433-5692
"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
Einstein
From: Russell Jones
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: 01/28/2015 04:25 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 Syncfiles error
---
urther reboots of n1 does not result in any syncfiles errors.
Really difficult to track this down. Any insight would be appreciated!
On 2/4/2015 1:30 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
Hi Ling,
Unfortunately I am running into this issue again, seemingly at random.
Can we revisit this? Are there areas
But I checked the code for
updatenode -F and did not see xdcp was called with a -v option, so I am
confused.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ling
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix
Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L
293-5692
> External: ling...@us.ib
in the cluster?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ling
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development
Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
>
External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692
>
> "I never worry about the
future. It comes soon enough."
ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692
"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
Einstein
From: Russell Jones
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date: 02/05/2015 02:03 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9
Hi all,
I am attempting to build a diskless image with a different
kernel version, but not having much luck. I am getting the following
error:
[root@evxcat kernel]# genimage
v6.6.0-dl-genesisbuild
Generating image:
cd
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/centos; ./genimage -a x86_64 -o centos6.6
-p
ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692
"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
Einstein
From: Russell Jones
To:
Date: 02/10/2015 05:09 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Building diskless image with different kernel
version
For clarification, this is of course after trying to place the kernels
RPMs and the kernel itself in
"/install/custom/v6.6.0-dl-genesisbuild/kernel" since I tried defining
that path in my osimage definition.
On 2/11/2015 9:46 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
It is empty, there's no
Hi,
I am trying to use the sequential discovery feature to quickly add nodes
to my cluster. However when running nodediscoverstart, I get the
following error in my management node's /var/log/messages when my first
node boots into discovery:
Discovery Error: Could not find the mac of the 172.21
Ling
Ling Gao
Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
IBM Systems and Technology Group
Internal: T/L 293-5692
External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692
"I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
Einstein
From: Russell Jones
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Da
Just wanted to bump this back up in hopes of an answer - Is there a way
of getting nodediscovery to parse dhcp messages from /var/log/messages
instead of relying on arp?
On 2/11/2015 4:30 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
It's custom supermicro hardware. I did a nodediscoverstart
noderange=apu-
hanks,
>
> Ling
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
> External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692
>
> "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert Einstein
&
nough." --- Albert
Einstein
From: Russell Jones
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date: 03/10/2015 03:47 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Building diskless image with different kernel
version
Thanks Ling,
I hav
> under /install/kernels/ directory.
>
> Ling
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
> External: ling...@us.ibm.com, 845-433-5692
>
> "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.&q
Hi Ling,
Just wanted to check in and see if any further troubleshooting has taken
place on this issue? I'm still facing it and haven't been able to
resolve it :(
On 3/11/2015 2:46 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
Hi Ling,
That's strange that you can't reproduce it!
The bo
Hi all,
I am attempting to setup some blades in a BladeCenter in order to be
able to use commands such as rbootseq and rpower. However when I issue
these commands I am getting the following errors. SSH and SNMP are
enabled on the chassis, and I am able to login via SSH successfully
using the c
; work? (where USERID is your defined account).
>
> I also noticed looking at your lsdef output I think you might need the "id"
> field populated in the mp table with the blade slot number.
> I am not sure if you will be able to rpower the blade without that being set.
>
>
d just parse the
rscan output and update it yourself.
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
Hi all,
I am attempting to setup some blades in a BladeCenter in order to be
able to use commands such as rbootseq and rpower. However when I issue
these commands I am getting the follow
This page was a nightmare to find in my opinion, I just happened to find
a link to it in the mailing list.
http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Building_a_Stateless_Image_of_a_Different_Architecture_or_OS/
It's useful enough that I propose it be placed on the main documentation
"table" somewhere
documentation page
http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Documentation/, click "Mixed
Cluster Support", then you can see a link that links to the page you
have mentioned. Is it not enough? We are trying to organize the main
page so that it does not have too many links.
Thanks,
Li
Hi all,
After upgrading to 2.9.1 from 2.9.0, !remote! definitions in the
network table is no longer generating the required shared-network
stanzas in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf for CentOS 6.
I noticed that the man page for "networks" states the format needs to
now be !remote!, so I have tried
site
at-core/ci/b0c839856df1ae72c2392571d439a3e100795438/
*From:*Russell Jones [mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me]
*Sent:* Thursday, July 02, 2015 10:26 AM
*To:* xCAT Users Mailing list
*Subject:* [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1 - !remote! interfaces no longer
working for makedhcp -n
Hi all,
After upgrading to 2.9.1 from 2.9.0, !remote! defi
I don't recall if this is required or not, and I am not able to login to
a system right now to verify, however try adding !remote! to
site.dhcpinterfaces and see if your remote VLAN shows up when you do a
makedhcp -n
On 7/25/2015 2:11 PM, Russell Auld wrote:
Is there a way to add outside sub
> shared network so that the server IP returned to the DHCP client is the
> public facing address.
> When the subnets are in the global scope, the DHCP server returns the private
> IP of the MN. Then the tftp doesn't work.
> There's probably a way to get it to return the corr
Hi devs,
I am running into this bug when attempting to create a diskless centos 7
image. The bug has been quiet since July, has there been any additional
progress on fixing this issue?
--
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Hi all,
I am attempting to create my first diskless Centos 7.1 image using xCAT
2.10. I have built the image and my node is successfully PXE'ing,
however is failing to switch over to the rootimg with the following
error on the console:
switch_root: cannot access /sbin/init: No such file or dir
rated successfully.
On 19.11.2015 20:21, Er Tao Zhao wrote:
> Can you show me the osimage definition that you run genimage against?
>
> Thx!
> Best Regards,
> ---
> Zhao Er Tao
>
> IBM China System and Technology Laboratory, Beijing
> Tel:(86-10)82450485
> Email: erta...
thing booted up fine :)
On 11/23/2015 9:56 AM, Russell Jones wrote:
Yep!
This is being ran on a CentOS 7.1 "build host". The management node is
CentOS 6.6. I am following the docs for building an OS image of a
different type. I am then running imgexport on the "build host&
Hi all,
This is my first dive into trying to create a diskless Ubuntu image. I
am an Ubuntu newbie coming from a heavy Redhat background. I have
installed xCAT 2.10 on an Ubuntu 14.04.2 host. After setting up the
osimage for it, running "genimage" produces the following error at the
end:
umo
hao Er Tao
>
> IBM China System and Technology Laboratory, Beijing
> Tel:(86-10)82450485
> Email: erta...@cn.ibm.com
> Address: 1/F, 28 Building,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,
> No.8 DongBeiWang West Road, Haidian District,
> Beijing, 100193, P.R.China
>
> Russell Jones ---20
Hi all,
What is the proper procedure to be able to add to the default list of
network drivers that genimage builds with? For example, my diskless
Ubuntu 14.04.2 image is unable to boot if the VM I am booting has a
vmxnet3 network card. In order to boot it, I need to run genimage with
"-n vmxne
Hi all,
I have kind of a strange question. We have some nodes we are netbooting
that are using an Intel 10G card with a non-intel SFP. In order for the
ixgbe driver to permit the SFP to work, you have to pass it the
"allow_unsupported_sfp=1" option.
This works when booted completely into the
27;t seem to be supported :)
On 11.01.2016 16:09, Russell Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have kind of a strange question. We have some nodes we are netbooting that
> are using an Intel 10G card with a non-intel SFP. In order for the ixgbe
> driver to permit the SFP to
trd.
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards
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> IBM China System Technology Laboratory
> Tel: 86-10-82453455
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>
t; allowed the node to boot.
It would be great if xCAT could support in the init script to look for
network driver options in the command line and follow those at init
time. That doesn't seem to be supported :)
On 11.01.2016 16:09, Russell Jones wrote:
Hi all,
I have kind of a s
Hi all
I see that it appears the typical way of restoring a diskless CentOS 6
GPFS node is to embed the GPFS RPM's in the image, and then on boot run
the "mmsdrrestore" command. This makes sense. My question however is, is
it possible to run this command without requiring the compute nodes to
PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
> On 19/01/16 10:04, Russell Jones wrote:
>
>> I see that it appears the typical way of restoring a diskless CentOS 6
>> GPFS node is to embed the GPFS RPM's in the image, and then on boot run
>> the "mmsdrrestore" command. This makes s
Hi all,
What is the proper magic to get genimage on an Ubuntu host working with
otherpkgdir properly? I am receiving an error when running genimage.
I've tried specifying the otherpkgdir as both
/install/custom/ubuntu-analytics/otherpkgdir and file:/// [1]. It
doesn't see the packages rega
I managed to get this working by changing it from file:/// [4] or
/install/custom... to http://. Seems silly but that's what made it start
talking to my otherpkg repository properly.
On 18.02.2016 14:33, Russell Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What is the proper magic to get
Hi all,
I am putting together an osimage for Ubuntu 14 on IBM dx360 M2 nodes.
The installation process is installing fine, however at the end of the
install while chain.currstate gets set to boot, and
/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/nodename is getting set to boot,
/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/nodename
re's no
netboot destination. This means if you do PXE, then it takes longer,
but in *theory* should still boot to drive.
Also somewhat mitigated as most UEFI OSes modify the boot order to
boot themselves first anyway…
*From:*Russell Jones [mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me]
*Sent:* Thursda
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