So that was in conjunction with the 'quick fix' elilo.pm. The trick for keeping that was that nodeset induces a "makedhcp -s 'filename elilo-x64.efi'". dhcp.pm is currently oblivious.
You can as a workaround do 'makedhcp <noderasge> -s 'filename elilo-x64.efi'" until such time the proper uefi support comes in (with xnba method). From: Matthew Newton/Watson/IBM@IBMUS To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Cc: Robert W Krull/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Gary C Sutherland/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Wesley Most/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, James A Lindeman/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Michael Frissora/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Brent Wolfe/Watson/IBM@IBMUS, Abdoulaye K Traore/Watson/Contr/IBM@IBMUS Date: 08/25/2011 11:02 AM Subject: [xcat-user] elilo-x64.efi boot not setting up properly Hi, We have some iDataPlex dx360 M3 nodes with UEFI firmware. We were directed to use "elilo" as the netboot method in the noderes table, which is supposed to point it to the elilo-x64.efi entry in /tftpboot, but when we "makedhcp -n" and then "makedhcp -a", it creates entries such as the following: host idpx8n004eth0 { dynamic; hardware ethernet e4:1f:13:f0:32:00; fixed-address 172.20.129.54; supersede server.ddns-hostname = "idpx8n004eth0"; supersede host-name = "idpx8n004eth0"; supersede server.next-server = ac:14:80:14; supersede server.filename = "yaboot"; } or even in some cases: host idpx8n010eth0 { dynamic; hardware ethernet e4:1f:13:f0:3b:b4; fixed-address 172.20.129.60; supersede server.ddns-hostname = "idpx8n010eth0"; supersede host-name = "idpx8n010eth0"; if option vendor-class-identifier = "ScaleMP" { supersede server.filename = "vsmp/pxelinux.0"; } else { supersede server.filename = "pxelinux.0"; } supersede server.next-server = ac:14:80:14; } The yaboot entry is bad news because when the node is booted it tries loading that file and it ends up hanging the IMM adapter and we have to go manually power cycle it. The pxelinux.0 is less of a problem, but still not correct. Our noderes entries look like this: [root@idpx1mgr ~]# tabdump noderes|egrep 'idpx8n004|idpx8n010' "idpx8n004eth0",,"elilo","172.20.128.20","172.20.128.20",,,,,,,"172.20.128.20",,,,,, "idpx8n010eth0",,"elilo","172.20.128.20","172.20.128.20",,,,,,,"172.20.128.20",,,,,, [root@idpx1mgr ~]# Can someone point us in the right direction here, so that we end up loading the correct (elilo-x64.efi) file on PXE boot? Thanks! Matt Newton Emerging Technologies Solutions Development Watson Strategic Initiatives Engineering 914-945-2196 [email protected] "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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