Doing this with xCAT 2.8.3 results in the following error on the node's console:

"Unrecognized directive <error> "


Please advise.
Thanks!

On 4/17/2014 12:25 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote:

Did you try to add the '--noupdateinitrd' as a parameter like 'osimage=xxx --noupdateinitrd' in chain table? It should work.

 
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From: Russell Jones <russell-l...@jonesmail.me>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Date: 2014/04/17 00:22
Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT diskfull image and custom initrd drivers





Hi all,

Every time a cluster is redeployed with a diskfull osimage, it takes a very, very long time due to it rebuilding the initrd for every single node to include our custom drivers. Example:

[root@master ~]# ps aux | grep cpio
root     22435  0.0  0.0  11296  1288 ?        S    11:07   0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpmH2w9vo/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpmH2w9vo/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1
root     22437  0.0  0.0   8420   712 ?        S    11:07   0:00 cpio -o -H crc
root     23258  0.0  0.0  11296  1288 ?        S    11:13   0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmp8zxIDN9/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmp8zxIDN9/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1
root     23260  0.0  0.0   8420   716 ?        D    11:13   0:00 cpio -o -H crc
root     23282  0.0  0.0  11296  1284 ?        S    11:14   0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpf3rzSJ8/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpf3rzSJ8/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1
root     23285  0.0  0.0   8420   716 ?        S    11:14   0:00 cpio -o -H crc
root     23396  0.0  0.0  11296  1284 ?        S    11:15   0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpwWNUmJC/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpwWNUmJC/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1
root     23398  0.1  0.0   8420   712 ?        S    11:15   0:00 cpio -o -H crc
root     23424  0.0  0.0  11296  1288 ?        S    11:15   0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpxPdAop2/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpxPdAop2/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1
root     23426  0.0  0.0   8420   716 ?        S    11:15   0:00 cpio -o -H crc
root     23600  0.0  0.0  11296  1288 ?        S    11:17   0:00 sh -c cd /tmp/ddtmpx1_N0Oq/modules; find . -print | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -9 > /tmp/ddtmpx1_N0Oq/initrd_img/modules/modules.cgz 2>&1
root     23602  0.2  0.0   8420   712 ?        D    11:17   0:00 cpio -o -H crc




I know there is a flag for nodeset to tell it to not rebuild the initrd, but this doesn't help with an osimage install that is done via chain. Is there a way to tell xCAT to just build the initrd once, and not rebuild it over and over again for each individual compute node when it encounters the osimage install via the chain table?

Thanks!
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