Hi David,

If you are using diskless nodes, on e you have updated the tables all you
need to do is

nodeset <nodename> netboot

And then reboot the nodes. This should automatically change the relevant
tftp files.

However if this is disk full, then you need to run the following command

nodeset <nodename> install

This should then reconfigure your kick start files and the tftp files and
once rebooted it should pick up the relevant files

I hope that helps

Regards,
Arif
 On 24 Jul 2012 19:14, "David C Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a cluster configuration which contains some RHEL 6.1 nodes and some
> RHEL 6.2 nodes.  I simply wanted to change a few of the nodes from 6.1 to
> 6.2.
>
> Initially, I thought all I needed to do was to change the settings for
> that node in the nodetype table, but that did not work.  The node still
> booted as RHEL 6.1.
>
> Then I updated the information in the bootparams table.  Still booting as
> 6.1.
>
> I examined the information being written to the console during boot, and
> saw that the file (on the Mgt Server) /tftpboot/etc/<nodeMacAddr> was being
> tftp'd over to the node at the beginning of the boot process.  When I
> updated that file to use the RHEL 6.2 boot image rather than the 6.1 image,
> the node finally booted with the RHEL 6.2 OS.
>
> For another RHEL 6.1 node, I tried the same thing, but I updated the
> /tftpboot/etc/<nodeMacAddr> file first.  Again, the node rebooted as RHEL
> 6.2, but the xCAT tables (nodetype, bootparams, etc.) are still showing
> RHEL 6.1 information for that node.
>
> Do I have to manually update the xCAT tables *and* the
> /tftpboot/etc/<nodeMacAddr> file when I want to change a node's OS release
> from RHEL 6.1 to RHEL 6.2 (or any other release that I have configured)?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> DCSmith
>
>
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