It could be. I was going to try to put the wait time back to normal, but someone took my attention away from it.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Thang Pham <[email protected]> wrote: > Could this be related to a short/long wait time, after the VM is started. > Usually, xCAT powers up the virtual machine, then waits a few seconds > before IPL 00c during install. Could it be that the wait time (which we > had modified a while ago) be too long, and the profile exec is executed, > booting the default root disk address (e.g. 0100)? > > > Regards, > ------------------------------------- > *Thang Pham* > IBM Poughkeepsie > Phone: (845) 433-7567* * > e-mail: [email protected] > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Mark Pace ---04/03/2013 02:01:33 > PM---One of the problems I've noticed since testing, building, delet]Mark > Pace ---04/03/2013 02:01:33 PM---One of the problems I've noticed since > testing, building, deleting, rebuilding, is that if the disk > > From: Mark Pace <[email protected]> > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>, > Date: 04/03/2013 02:01 PM > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands > ------------------------------ > > > > One of the problems I've noticed since testing, building, deleting, > rebuilding, is that if the disk already and an existing Linux on it, it > boots the old OS and seems to ignore the IPL=00C. If I format the disk > first, I don't have this problem. > > > On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Thang Pham > <*[email protected]*<[email protected]>> > wrote: > > The reason for not formatting the disk upon delete is it takes some > time for the delete to complete, which could bog you down if you are > deleting >10 nodes at once. Also, the worker machine (DATAMOVE) that does > the deletion is fragile. I have observed cases where a work unit on > DATAMOVE gets stalled on the formatting, and you have to manually take care > of the work unit. We can certainly add an option in rmvm to do the > formatting, if there is a requirement for it. > > For now, you can actually modify the *zvm.pm* <http://zvm.pm/> plugin > to run the NOCLEAN option. It's pretty simple: > > # sed -i 's/Image_Delete_DM -T $userId -e 1/Image_Delete_DM -T > $userId -e 2/g' /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/*zvm.pm*<http://zvm.pm/> > # service xcatd restart > Using -e 2 will force DirMaint to format the disk. > > Another option is to encrypt the partition in autoyast, which would > secure the disk's contents. > <partition> > <crypt>twofish256</crypt> > <crypt_key>abc12345678901234567890</crypt_key> > <loop_fs config:type="boolean">true</loop_fs> > <crypt_fs config:type="boolean">true</crypt_fs> > <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> > <format config:type="boolean">true</format> > <mount>/tmp</mount> > <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id> > <size>1GB</size> > <partition_type>primary</partition_type> > </partition> > This sample was taken from this thread: * > > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2006-06/msg00114.html*<http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2006-06/msg00114.html> > . > > Regards, > -------------------------------------* > Thang Pham* > IBM Poughkeepsie > Phone: *(845) 433-7567* <%28845%29%20433-7567>* * > e-mail: *[email protected]* <[email protected]> > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Mark Pace ---04/03/2013 09:15:39 > AM---Can I find where the DIRMAINT commands are issued? It appears]Mark > Pace ---04/03/2013 09:15:39 AM---Can I find where the DIRMAINT commands are > issued? It appears to me that when I do a remove VM comm > > From: Mark Pace <*[email protected]* <[email protected]>> > To: xCat > <*[email protected]*<[email protected]>>, > > Date: 04/03/2013 09:15 AM > Subject: [xcat-user] DIRMAINT commands > ------------------------------ > > > > > Can I find where the DIRMAINT commands are issued? It appears to me > that when I do a remove VM command (rmvm) that it is sending a purge with > the NOCLEAN option. I do not want it done this way. I want the minidisk > cleaned(reformatted). 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