I was able to build the genimage for Ubuntu 10.04.2 and can tell the node to boot of that Node goes gets the image but just sits there, with a blinking cursor and then I don't see anything on the screen The status tells me it is netbooting but that is about it, I do not get a chance to login or anything.
[root@mgmt src]# nodels compute nodelist.status | xcoll ==================================== node1 ==================================== Netbooting I must be missing a key package. I only used the default package list. What packages did you use ? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 2:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: xCAT-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 11 Send xCAT-user mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of xCAT-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt (Jack Singh) 2. Re: Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt (Arif Ali) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:51:05 +0000 From: Jack Singh <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <3820dbc34db8b4458620fa9deb6e8a2737fc7...@msimb03.msihq.microstrat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Bruce Are you suggesting to install Ubuntu on the Management server then ? jack -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: xCAT-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 10 Send xCAT-user mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of xCAT-user digest..." 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]> Message-ID: <ofdf620d84.b6197d90-on85257b87.002c7045-85257b87.002cb...@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: graycol.gif Type: image/gif Size: 105 bytes Desc: not available ------------------------------ Message: 2 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 To: xcat-user <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cactwng6e3w4ursdvzv33uhr8ov8zppwgljbus9uxjw1pneb...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 3 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 To: xcat-user <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cactwng4n3fxgmabrhph53ap+xtcf_vo3k8nn7rq11z-68be...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user End of xCAT-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 10 ***************************************** ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:12:59 +0100 From: Arif Ali <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Create Ubuntu Stateless Image on RHEL6.2 mgmt To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cam0vtdasuxgkdo_38zrzkys+az-9agtuodzv0n97-8jx3h+...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Jack, Try the 2 RPMS in the following URL http://xcat.ocf.co.uk/devel/xCAT-ubuntu-0.2/RPMS/ i.e. debootstrap and dpkg, and then try doing the genimage. My testing that I did about a year ago allowed me to do it from a rhel based machine. Let me know how you get on regards, Arif -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 11 June 2013 14:51, Jack Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce > Are you suggesting to install Ubuntu on the Management server then ? > jack > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:55 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: xCAT-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 10 > > Send xCAT-user mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than > "Re: Contents of xCAT-user digest..." > > > 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) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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]> > Message-ID: > < > ofdf620d84.b6197d90-on85257b87.002c7045-85257b87.002cb...@us.ibm.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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,ope > nssh-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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was > scrubbed... > Name: graycol.gif > Type: image/gif > Size: 105 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > 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 > To: xcat-user <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < > cactwng6e3w4ursdvzv33uhr8ov8zppwgljbus9uxjw1pneb...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > 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 > To: xcat-user <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > < > cactwng4n3fxgmabrhph53ap+xtcf_vo3k8nn7rq11z-68be...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > 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 > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > 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 > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > End of xCAT-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 10 > ***************************************** > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user End of xCAT-user Digest, Vol 46, Issue 11 ***************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
