Found the culprit, hacked around it. xcatdsklspost uses the DHCP server if it
can't find an xcatinfo file and the various $SIP variables aren't set. Here's
my fix:
--- /install/postscripts/xcatdsklspost.orig 2013-01-21 17:18:35.283378778
-0500
+++ /install/postscripts/xcatdsklspost 2013-01-21 17:20:53.092392012 -0500
@@ -141,6 +141,17 @@
fi
fi
+ if [ $downloaded -eq 0 ]; then
+ SIP=`sed -e 's|.*XCAT=\([0-9.]\+\).*|\1|g' /proc/cmdline`
+ if [ -n "$SIP" ]; then
+ download_postscripts $SIP
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ downloaded=1
+ fi
+ fi
+ fi
+
+
#try the -m if it is specified, -m is passed in the updatenode command
if [ $downloaded -eq 0 ]; then
if [ "XX$P_SIP" != "XX" ]; then
Andrew
--- On Mon, 1/21/13, Andrew Klaassen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying a netboot install for the
> first time, after having a working xCAT installation for
> quite some time.
>
> We use a central DNS and DHCP server on another subnet, at
> 10.101.1.11.
>
> The master xCAT server is at 10.101.4.3.
>
> The netboot progresses to the point where it's running the
> following command, at which point it hangs, since our
> DNS/DHCP server isn't running ftp:
>
> wget -l inf -nH -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait -T 60
> ftp://10.101.1.11/postscripts -P /xcatpost
> --cut-dirs=1
>
> I've grep'd everything I could think of to figure out where
> it's getting 10.101.1.11 (the DNS/DHCP server address) from
> for that wget command.
>
> /install/autoinst/nodename doesn't mention it.
>
> lsdef nodename doesn't mention it.
>
> /install/netboot/fedora13/x86_64/compute/rootimg doesn't
> mention it.
>
> The only mention of it in a dump of all tables is in
> site.nameservers, which is exactly where I want it.
>
> Why is wget trying to contact the DNS/DHCP server instead of
> the master server during netboot? Any other places I
> need to look to set this config correctly?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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