Thank you for the response! I have fixed it.
I have a new issue now however,
It is now getting
/tftpboot/xcat/osimage/rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img and starts
the install, but always hangs at this step:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 732k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1576k freed
Thank you,
Stephen
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:48:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Unable to kickstart, perhaps due to multiple interfaces
In your case, the compute node was trying to download genesis.* file. It means
the node booted with a nic which does not have mac configured in the node
definition.
Generally, we have a mac for the install nic configured in the 'mac' attribute.
After running of 'nodeset', you can see a block in the
/var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases for the node with the mac and ip specified. If
your node tries to boot from this instal nic, xCAT would tell it to download
kickstart files. If not, xCAT does not know this mac address (not defined in
the mac attribute), xCAT will lead it to download 'genesis' to do the discovery.
Thanks
Best Regards
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IBM China System Technology Laboratory
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----- Original message -----
From: Stephen Cartwright <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc:
Subject: [xcat-user] Unable to kickstart, perhaps due to multiple interfaces
Date: Sun, Jul 17, 2016 12:40 AM
Hi there,
I am trying to kickstart a system (IBM/lenovo x3550 with RHEL6.7) using xcat
2.8.5 and I can not seem to get it to install.
I install using the commands:
nodeset node osimage=rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute
rsetboot node net; rpower node reset
I see it successfully start the xCAT network boot agent, load the kernel
/tftboot/xcat/genesis.kernel.x86_64 and /tftboot/xcat/genesis.fs.x86_64.lzma
But anaconda never seems to start, and it is stuck on "network configuration
complete, commencing transmit of discovery packets"
This may have something to do with the fact that this machine has an external
interface and an internal interface, so I am wondering if this could be an
issue? If so how to disable the external interface until the machine has been
installed?
Thank you for your time!
Stephen
P.S.
I have placed the information regarding the nodes below:
bootparams
"node","xcat/osimage/rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute/vmlinuz","xcat/osimage/rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img","quiet
repo=http://!myipfn!:80/install/rhels6.7/x86_64
ks=http://!myipfn!:80/install/autoinst/node ksdevice=eth2 cmdline console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200",,,,,
mac
"node",,"40:F2:E9:0D:F8:D4",,
noderes
"node",,,,,,,,"eth2","eth2",,,,,,,,,,,
nodehm
hosts
"node","192.168.200.13",,,,
nodelist
"node","compute.big,x86_64,ipmi,all","booting","07-16-2016 05:35:46",,,,,,,,,
chain
"node","install rhels6.7-x86_64-compute","boot",,,,
nodetype
"node","rhels6.7","x86_64","compute","rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute",,,,
ipmi
"node","node-mgmt",,,,,,,
lsdef -t node
Object name: node
arch=x86_64
bmc=node-mgmt
bmcpassword=password
bmcusername=user
chain=runcmd=bmcsetup,shell
cons=ipmi
currchain=boot
currstate=install rhels6.7-x86_64-compute
groups=compute,x86_64,ipmi,all
initrd=xcat/osimage/rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img
installnic=eth2
ip=192.168.200.13
kcmdline=quiet repo=http://!myipfn!:80/install/rhels6.7/x86_64
ks=http://!myipfn!:80/install/autoinst/node ksdevice=eth2 cmdline console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200
kernel=xcat/osimage/rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute/vmlinuz
mac=40:F2:E9:0D:F8:D4
mgt=ipmi
netboot=pxe
ondiscover=nodediscover
os=rhels6.7
postbootscripts=otherpkgs
postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles
primarynic=eth2
profile=compute
provmethod=rhels6.7-x86_64-install-compute
serialport=0
serialspeed=115200
status=booting
statustime=07-16-2016 05:35:46
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