What I didn’t realize is that 1) imgcapture -t sysclone creates a disk boot
install image from a disk installed system,
and so the imgcapture -t diskless is closer to what I want. What was also not
mentioned on the wiki web page was that 2) the Golden Client
needs to be a diskful install, which I had not done. Someone at ORNL was
working on making it work diskless to diskless, but I couldn’t find
the modified version anywhere.
Meanwhile, I have scrounged up an old SATA drive and plan to redo the install
tomorrow.
I hope it goes better.
— ddj
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 10:47 PM, Wei Hua WH Hu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> Could you run "imgcapture node855 -t sysclone -o
> centos6.5-x86_64-netboot-lenovo -V" again? with '-V' option, we could get
> more information,
>
> Depending on the past experience, Could you check in your golden client
> 'node855', how does node855 resolve MN name "mgt1". thanks.
>
> Best Regards!
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> <graycol.gif>David D Johnson ---10/09/2015 01:11:39 AM---I'm trying to follow
> the instructions on
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Using_Clone_to_Deploy_Se
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Using_Clone_to_Deploy_Se>
>
> From: David D Johnson <[email protected]>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>,
> Date: 10/09/2015 01:11 AM
> Subject: [xcat-user] Golden Client debugging help needed
>
>
>
> I'm trying to follow the instructions on
> http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Using_Clone_to_Deploy_Server/
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Using_Clone_to_Deploy_Server/>
> to generate a custom diskless boot image from a more generic one. Original
> is barebones CentOS 6.5.
> Added enough rpms to install GPFS and Mellanox OFED, then deleted the extras
> like kernel-devel and rpm-build
> that I didn't need to have cluttering up the image. I got to the "final"
> step, which failed:
> [root@mgt1 ~]# imgcapture node855 -t sysclone -o
> centos6.5-x86_64-netboot-lenovo
> Checking if systemimager packages are installed on mgt1.
> Checking if systemimager packages are installed on node855.
> Preparing osimage centos6.5-x86_64-netboot-lenovo on node855.
> Error: export PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/;LANG=C si_prepareclient
> --server mgt1 --no-uyok --yes failed on the node855.
> Error: Can not prepare Golden Client on node855.
>
> There are no details why si_prepareclient failed, perhaps I deleted one too
> many rpms...
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> -- ddj
> Dave Johnson
> Brown University
> Center for Computation and
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