Re: [xcat-user] pxe booting older hardware with newer xcat

Er Tao Zhao Mon, 08 May 2017 20:11:53 -0700

Hi, David

Will you pls set installnic and primarynic to 'mac', and then run rinstall to redeploy OS for the node?

Pls let us know if there is more issues.

Thx!

Best Regards,
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----- Original message -----
From: "David D. Johnson" <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Cc:
Subject: [xcat-user] pxe booting older hardware with newer xcat
Date: Tue, May 9, 2017 4:28 AM

I’m needing to reinstall / update a dozen IBM x3650-M2 servers from 2009.
These Nehalem nodes get up to the point where they should be doing PXE dhcp request, etc, but
I am only seeing blank screen. No DHCP events logged. It seems xcat would not be to blame, but
I’m wondering if anyone else has encountered a situation like this. Tried
set BootOrder.BootOrder "Legacy _Only_=PXE Network"

[root@mgt5 rh]# lsdef storage005 --osimage
Object name: storage005
   arch=x86_64
   bmc=storage005-bmc
   bmcport=0
   currchain=boot
   currstate=install rhels7.2-x86_64-storage
   groups=storage,ipmi,storagenodes,chs,ext
   initrd=xcat/osimage/rhels7.2-x86_64-install-storage/initrd.img
   installnic=eno0
   ip=172.20.1.5
   kcmdline=quiet inst.repo=http://172.20.0.6:80/install/rhels7.2/x86_64 inst.ks=http://172.20.0.6:80/install/autoinst/storage005 ip=eno0:dhcp inst.cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
   kernel=xcat/osimage/rhels7.2-x86_64-install-storage/vmlinuz
   mac=00:1A:64:E5:BA:56
   mgt=ipmi
   netboot=pxe
   nfsserver=172.20.0.6
   os=rhels7.2
   postbootscripts=otherpkgs
   postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp,ipoib,sitespecific
   power=ipmi
   primarynic=eno0
   profile="">   provmethod=rhels7.2-x86_64-install-storage
   serialport=0
   serialspeed=115200
   status=powering-on
   statustime=05-08-2017 15:46:33
   tftpserver=172.20.0.6
   profile="">   osvers=rhels7.2
   osarch=x86_64
   osname=Linux
   objtype=osimage
   provmethod=install
   imagetype=linux
   osdistroname=rhels7.2-x86_64

I notice there is no pkglist — I tried cloning rhels7.2-x86_64-install-service and probably missed a step.

Thanks for any insight,
— ddj
Dave Johnson
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