I think the boottarget is a good choice for you. For your node, the following attribute should be set: os=boottarget, profile=smcmos. And make sure the path of the kernel is correct in the boottarget table, and the attribute kcmdline as well.
Thanks Best Regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: [email protected] Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 From: "Pocina, Goran" <[email protected]> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, Date: 2012/11/30 23:12 Subject: [xcat-user] Netbooting off a floppy or CD image. The following pxe boot file will boot a FreeDOS floppy disk image that runs a CMOS utility (after memdisk and the image file are copied to /tftpboot): [root@drdxcatmn1 xcat]# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/develkv8 #run CMOS utility on FreeDOS DEFAULT Floppy LABEL Floppy LINUX memdisk APPEND initrd=xcat/floppy/cmos-settings.img IPAPPEND 2 Is there a way to have xCAT generate a similar pxe file when needed? Say when a “nodeset host netboot=smcmos” is run? It looks like the boottarget table can help, but I may not be setting it up correctly because “nodeset host netboot=smcmos” generates a missing kernel error. [root@drdxcatmn1 xcat]# tabdump boottarget #bprofile,kernel,initrd,kcmdline,comments,disable "smcmos","memdisk","xcat/floppy/cmos-settings.img",,, [root@drdxcatmn1 xcat]# nodeset develkv8 netboot=smcmos Error: Did you run "genimage" before running "packimage"? kernel cannot be found Error: Some nodes failed to set up netboot resources, aborting Also tried copying /tftpboot/memdisk to /tftpboot/xcat/netboot/smcmos/memdisk, but no help. Any suggestions? Thanks, Goran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: TUNE You got it built. Now make it sing. Tune shows you how. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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