Re: [xcat-user] Loading image hangs during pxe installation

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:14:29 -0700

Hi!

I upgraded xcat using the repository on sourceforge (as described in the UbuntuQuickStart guide) to the latest version  (2.9-snap20130312). I also update the bladecenter firmware, but it still hangs while getting the elilo_x86.efi file (at 31%).

This happens only on HS23 blades. I could deploy RHEL and Ubuntu images on x3650 and HS22 without problems.

Could it be something on elilo-xcat dependency (currently 1.2.1-1 installed)?

Regards,
Adalberto Medeiros
Linux Technology Center 
Openstack and Cloud Development
IBM Brazil
Email: [email protected]
On 11-03-2013 12:34, Lissa Valletta wrote:

We have GA'd  2.8 , so when you get a chance you might upgrade to 2.8 GA
Version 2.8 (svn r15205, built Mon Feb 18 17:01:27 EST 2013)

Lissa K. Valletta
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From: Adalberto Medeiros <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 03/08/2013 07:58 AM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Loading image hangs during pxe installation




Hi!

I'm currently running xcat 2.8-snap20130201 for ubuntu.

After the note I send, I tried to deploy the ubuntu image in a HS22 in the same bladecenter and it worked using xnba. I'll give it a shot with rhel on the HS23 and update the bladecenter firmware to check if this behave changes.

Regards,
Adalberto Medeiros
Linux Technology Center
Openstack and Cloud Development
IBM Brazil
Email: [email protected]
On 08-03-2013 09:11, Lissa Valletta wrote:

    Hi Adalberto ,  what level of xCAT are you running?  

    Lissa K. Valletta
    8-3/B10
    Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
    (tie 293) 433-3102



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    Date:     03/07/2013 09:44 PM
    Subject:     Re: [xcat-user] Loading image hangs during pxe installation



    I had test installing ubuntu 12.04.2 on my test machine, did not met your problem. I think you can try to provision redhat or sles first.

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      [xcat-user] Loading image hangs during pxe installation 

    Hi!

    I'm trying to deploy Ubuntu in a few compute nodes. I have tried both pxe and xnba as netboot, in both cases I got the booting hanging at some part.

    For pxe, the compute node had the ip set by dhcp correctly and was able to download the necessary pxe files using tftp. It downloaded initrd.gz and vmlinuz and it started the installation process, hanging in the middle of it (see pic 1 attached).

    For xnba, it also hangs trying to download the elilo-x86.efi file, at 31% . I've tried that for different compute nodes and they had the same behavior (see pic 2).
    Log in the mn :
    Mar  6 13:54:43 tam in.tftpd[21959]: RRQ from 9.114.219.49 filename /xcat/elilo-x64.efi
    Mar  6 13:55:24 tam kernel: [2331921.456317] be2net 0000:16:00.1: Out of MCCQ wrbs

    After some time, it restarts the cn and try to pxe boot it again, but it gives me those messages in the mn (be2net Out of MCCQ wrbs, which looks like network issues).

    Any help or insights is appreciated!

    Here is my configuration.
    Bladecenter with HS23 blades (both mn and cn), with Ubuntu, trying to deploy ubuntu image (12.04.2).
    mn: tam
    cn: derrial

    root@tam:~# lsdef derrial
    Object name: derrial
     arch=x86_64
     cons=blade
     currchain=boot
     currstate=install ubuntu12.04.2-x86_64-compute
     getmac=blade
     groups=compute,blade,all
     id=12
     initrd=xcat/osimage/ubuntu12.04.2-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img
     installnic=mac
     ip=9.114.219.51
     kcmdline=nofb utf8 auto url="">http://9.114.219.49/install/autoinst/derrial netcfg/choose_interface=a0:36:9f:07:20:18 console=tty0 console=ttyS1,19200n8r noipv6 locale=en_US console-setup/layoutcode=us priority=critical netcfg/dhcp_timeout=120 hostname=derrial
     kernel=xcat/osimage/ubuntu12.04.2-x86_64-install-compute/vmlinuz
     mac=a0:36:9f:07:20:18
     mgt=blade
     mpa=bchmm
     netboot=xnba
     nfsserver=9.114.219.49
     nodetype=osi,blade
     os=ubuntu12.04.2
     postbootscripts=otherpkgs
     postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles
     primarynic=eth0
     profile="">  provmethod=ubuntu12.04.2-x86_64-install-compute
     serialflow=hard
     serialport=1
     serialspeed=19200
     status=powering-off
     statustime=03-06-2013 13:51:37
     tftpserver=9.114.219.49

    root@tam:~# ls /tftpboot/xcat/
    elilo-x64.efi  osimage  pxelinux.0  xnba  xnba.efi  xnba.kpxe

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    Linux Technology Center
    Openstack and Cloud Development
    IBM Brazil
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