Bruce
Are you suggesting to install Ubuntu on the Management server then ?
jack
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt (Bruce M Potter)
2. Fwd: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server (Yixuan Huang)
3. Re: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server (Yixuan Huang)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:08:22 -0400
From: Bruce M Potter <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
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We have not tested deploying ubuntu nodes from a rhel mgmt node. At the very
least, you need to build your stateless image on an ubuntu node (not the rhel
mgmt node), following
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start#Building_an_Image_for_a_Different_OS_or_Architecture
.
But even after doing that i can't guarantee you won't run into other problems.
Bruce Potter STSM, Linux & AIX Cluster Development, IBM,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Email: [email protected] Phone: external: 845-433-7073, internal: TL
293-7073
From: Jack Singh <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>,
Date: 06/10/2013 05:47 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt
How do you create the stateless image of Ubuntu 12.04.02 using the RHEL6.2
Management server.
I have presented the /install folder from Management server to a VM running
Ubuntu 12.04.02 I have copied netboot/Ubuntu folder on to the vm.
When I run genimage command I am getting the following error ?apt invocation
failed?
root@precise64:/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu# ./genimage --interactive -n
igb -i eth0 -o ubuntu12.04.2 -p compute debootstrap
--include=bash,nfs-common,openssl,dhcp3-client,linux-image-generic,openssh-server,openssh-client,wget,vim,ntp,rsyslog,rsync,busybox-static
--arch amd64 precise /install/netboot/ubuntu12.04.2/x86_64/compute/rootimg
file:///install/ubuntu12.04.2/x86_64/
apt invocation failed
root@precise64:/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu# uname -a Linux precise64
3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@precise64:/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu# lsb_release -a No LSB
modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
I need to deploy Ubuntu nodes on Xcat mgmt. server running RHEL6.2
Thanks
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:21:11 +0800
From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]>
Subject: [xcat-user] Fwd: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
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Hello,
When I change netboot to pxe, i can boot esxi5.1 successfully. But I still have
two questions:
1) what reason when I used xnba, it will loop infinite to install?
2) when installation has been successfully, if definition update in lsdef, as
below information from that environment, status still get at installing.
is it working as design?
lsdef esxi5host:
Object name: esxi5host
arch=x86_64
bmc=9.115.235.135
bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
bmcport=1
bmcusername=USERID
cons=ipmi
currchain=boot
currstate=boot
groups=all
installnic=vmnic1
ip=192.168.1.5
kcmdline=-c xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/boot.cfg.install ks=
http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host
kernel=xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/mboot.c32
mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
mgt=ipmi
netboot=pxe
nfsserver=192.168.1.2
nodetype=osi
os=esxi5.1
postbootscripts=otherpkgs
postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
primarynic=vmnic1
profile=hypervisor
provmethod=install
status=installing
statustime=06-11-2013 15:20:14
xcatmaster=master
Thanks,
yixuan
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From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM
Subject: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
To: [email protected]
Hello,
When I tried to install esxi4.1 and 5.1 with xcat 2.8.1. I met following issue.
It can be booted and successfully installed, and reboot, but pxe will install
esxi server again...
lsdef esxihost (which esxihost is my esxi node information):
Object name: esxihost
arch=x86_64
bmc=9.115.235.135
bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
bmcport=1
bmcusername=USERID
cons=ipmi
currchain=boot
currstate=install esxi4.1-x86_64-base
groups=all
installnic=eth1
ip=192.168.1.4
kcmdline=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkboot.gz quiet repo=
http://192.168.1.2:8
0/install/esxi4.1/x86_64
ks=http://192.168.1.2:80/install/autoinst/esxihostksde
vice=vmnic1 --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkernel.gz ---
xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/bas e/sys.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/cim.vgz ---
xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/ienv iron.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/install.vgz
--- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/m od.tgz
kernel=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32
mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
mgt=ipmi
netboot=xnba
nfsserver=192.168.1.2
os=esxi4.1
postbootscripts=otherpkgs
postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
primarynic=eth1
profile=base
provmethod=install
status=installing
statustime=06-09-2013 17:32:39
xcatmaster=master
Any idea to solve that issue? And how to debug if there has such issue, when I
enable SOL, it cannot work for esxi installation, no output to SOL session.
Another question is, when I used esxi5.1 to install, it still use legacy CSM
PXE, not the UEFI pxe.
Thanks,
yixuan
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:54:07 +0800
From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
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Finally, I got esxi5 to work now, both for pxe and xnba. But not for esxi4.1,
it will fail to send result to xcatd. I comment reboot in auto install script,
to see what happen on esxi host.
Here is the /tmp/foo.log:
connect: network is unreachable
connect: errno=22
When i try to ping that node, cannot ping.
>From esxcfg-vmnic -l result, there has no IP present for vmnic1 which
>is
connect to network. However, when installation start before, I can ssh into
that esxi host.
When I tried to use netboot as pxe, when in pxe boot stage, it will be prompt
message like: xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32: not a COM32R image.
In a word, for xnba, xcat cannot be retrieved signal from node, something is
wrong for network configuration; for pxe, will be failed at pxe boot.
Any idea to help solve those issue?
Thanks,
yixuan
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Yixuan Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> When I change netboot to pxe, i can boot esxi5.1 successfully. But I
> still have two questions:
> 1) what reason when I used xnba, it will loop infinite to install?
> 2) when installation has been successfully, if definition update in
> lsdef, as below information from that environment, status still get at
> installing. is it working as design?
>
> lsdef esxi5host:
> Object name: esxi5host
>
> arch=x86_64
> bmc=9.115.235.135
> bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
> bmcport=1
> bmcusername=USERID
> cons=ipmi
> currchain=boot
> currstate=boot
> groups=all
> installnic=vmnic1
> ip=192.168.1.5
> kcmdline=-c
> xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/boot.cfg.install ks=
> http://192.168.1.2/install/autoinst/esxi5host
> kernel=xcat/netboot/esxi5.1/x86_64/hypervisor/mboot.c32
>
> mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
> mgt=ipmi
> netboot=pxe
> nfsserver=192.168.1.2
> nodetype=osi
> os=esxi5.1
> postbootscripts=otherpkgs
> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
> primarynic=vmnic1
> profile=hypervisor
> provmethod=install
> status=installing
> statustime=06-11-2013 15:20:14
> xcatmaster=master
>
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
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> From: Yixuan Huang <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM
> Subject: install esxi4.1 and 5.1 on system x server
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> Hello,
> When I tried to install esxi4.1 and 5.1 with xcat 2.8.1. I met
> following issue.
> It can be booted and successfully installed, and reboot, but pxe will
> install esxi server again...
> lsdef esxihost (which esxihost is my esxi node information):
> Object name: esxihost
> arch=x86_64
> bmc=9.115.235.135
> bmcpassword=PASSW0RD
> bmcport=1
> bmcusername=USERID
> cons=ipmi
> currchain=boot
> currstate=install esxi4.1-x86_64-base
> groups=all
> installnic=eth1
> ip=192.168.1.4
> kcmdline=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkboot.gz quiet repo=
> http://192.168.1.2:8
> 0/install/esxi4.1/x86_64 ks=
> http://192.168.1.2:80/install/autoinst/esxihostksde
> vice=vmnic1 --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/vmkernel.gz ---
> xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/bas e/sys.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/cim.vgz
> --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/ienv iron.vgz ---
> xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/install.vgz --- xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/m
> od.tgz
> kernel=xcat/esxi4.1/x86_64/base/mboot.c32
> mac=6C:AE:8B:60:FE:03
> mgt=ipmi
> netboot=xnba
> nfsserver=192.168.1.2
> os=esxi4.1
> postbootscripts=otherpkgs
> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp
> primarynic=eth1
> profile=base
> provmethod=install
> status=installing
> statustime=06-09-2013 17:32:39
> xcatmaster=master
>
> Any idea to solve that issue? And how to debug if there has such
> issue, when I enable SOL, it cannot work for esxi installation, no
> output to SOL session.
>
> Another question is, when I used esxi5.1 to install, it still use
> legacy CSM PXE, not the UEFI pxe.
>
> Thanks,
> yixuan
>
>
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