Missed link in previos message
LSI Megacli pre script
http://www.kielek.net/megaraid-lsi-kickstart/
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> 1. setup RAID controller before installing OS (Stagneth, Andre)
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> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:35:13 +0000
> From: "Stagneth, Andre" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [xcat-user] setup RAID controller before installing OS
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> 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
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> Thanks in advance,
> Andr?
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> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:45:12 -0500
> From: Jonathan Mills <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] setup RAID controller before installing OS
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> 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,
> >
> > Andr?
> >
>
> --
> Jonathan Mills
> Systems Administrator
> Renaissance Computing Institute
> UNC-Chapel Hill
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:13:12 -0600
> From: Russell Jones <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] setup RAID controller before installing OS
> To: <[email protected]>
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>
> 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, Andr?
> >
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> > Jonathan Mills
> > Systems Administrator
> > Renaissance Computing
> Institute
> > UNC-Chapel Hill
> >
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> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:52:15 -0500
> From: David Johnson <[email protected]>
> Subject: [xcat-user] Interactive install
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> We've provisioned a lot of diskless nodes and a few disked installs, but
> right now I have a one-off install on a machine with no DVD drive. It
> needs software raid for the boot disk and other details that don't make a
> normal nodeset osimage install seem practical. Any suggestions how to
> simply boot install media with pxe and manually control the install?
>
> Thanks,
> -- ddj
> Dave Johnson
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> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:00:01 -0500
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> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Interactive install
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> After the nodeset, edit /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/<nodename>.* and remove
> the bits where it points to a kickstart file or whatever. Then it will be
> interactive and manual when it pxe boots.
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> From: David Johnson <[email protected]>
> To: "[email protected]"
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> Date: 02/28/2014 02:55 PM
> Subject: [xcat-user] Interactive install
>
>
>
> We've provisioned a lot of diskless nodes and a few disked installs, but
> right now I have a one-off install on a machine with no DVD drive. It
> needs software raid for the boot disk and other details that don't make a
> normal nodeset osimage install seem practical. Any suggestions how to
> simply boot install media with pxe and manually control the install?
>
> Thanks,
> -- ddj
> Dave Johnson
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