We do exactly this using runimage's first. We just chain it so that
the nodes configure their controller and partitions how we need it,
reboot, then either install / download the OS
On 28.02.2014 10:45,
Jonathan Mills wrote:
> I've briefly looked into this.
>
> You can't
do it within a kickstart's %pre section because the
> environment
doesn't have enough libraries loaded to allow MegaCli to run.
>
> You
can do it within a kickstart's %post section, which means you can
>
create raid volumes for secondary drives, and format those. But you
>
still have to have something like a /dev/sda to begin with.
>
>
Obviously, it's also easy to do this with an xCAT postbootscript, and
>
add the script to the postscripts table or the osimage table. That's
>
what I currently do to create all my secondary drives.
>
> If you want
to use MegaCli to create all of the raid disks though, I
> imagine
you'd need to boot off the Genesis kernel first. Perhaps as
> part of
the node discovery process.
>
> On 02/28/2014 11:35 AM, Stagneth, Andre
wrote:
>
>> Hello, Is there a possibility to integrate a RAID
configuration of LSI Controller before installation the OS (SLES11).
MegaCli64 cfgclr force a0 MegaCli64 -cfgforeign -clear -a0 MegaCli64
-CfgLdAdd -r1[$ENC:1,$ENC:2,$ENC:3,$ENC:4] WB RA Cached CachedBadBBU
-Cache -a0 (where $ENC is set to the enclosure number - use "./MegaCli64
-pdlist -a0" to find it) MegaCli64 -CfgCacheCadeAdd -r0 -Physdrv[$ENC:0]
WT a0 MegaCli64 -LDSetProp NORA -L1 -a0 Thanks in advance, André
>
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