Yes, I recall someone having trouble that went away when they turned off
hardware flow control on the serial console. If you have 115200nr or 38400nr
change it to get rid of the “r”.
-- ddj
Dave Johnson
> On Jul 3, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Michael Robbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don't know if this is your issue, but I had similar symptoms recently while
> testing RHEL/CentOS 7 images on our cluster that has worked for years just
> fine with CentOS 6.x. I found that my problem had something to do with
> console redirection. For some reason systemd was hanging while trying to send
> console messages to the SOL. If I disabled that redirection by deleting the
> nodehm.cons attribute for the node that I was testing then the node booted
> fine. If you can do that and find that it works then you'll know what is
> wrong and you can probably find out from somebody at Lenovo how that is
> supposed to be configured. The hardware where I'm having this problem is from
> SuperMicro so I'm on my own for figuring out how it is supposed to work.
> Mike
>> On 7/3/18 2:26 PM, Sam Davis wrote:
>> I have left it trying to boot overnight with no success. I did find earlier
>> I was getting an NTP error during the boot cycle. I configure ntpd on the
>> management node and the client node reports syncing early in the boot
>> process now.
>>
>> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2018 4:01 PM
>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] New XCAT installtion PXE boot issue.
>>
>> So a quick question is how long is never? I had a similar situation today
>> and the setupntp script was taking a really long time but finally gave up.
>> The problem for me was that chronyd was not configured on the management
>> node to respond on any network interfaces. Chronyd has replaced ntpd on
>> redhat 7.
>>
>> -- ddj
>> Dave Johnson
>>
>> On Jul 3, 2018, at 2:55 PM, Sam Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to setup a new HPC cluster using XCAT (2.14). I have
>> installed the management node and created the boot image (RHEL 7.5). The
>> node has been discover and PXE boots, downloading the image file. But the
>> boot process stalls and never finishes. I have even copied over a working
>> RHEL 7.3 image from our other cluster to see if that is the issue. I’ve
>> tried disabling and enabling hyperthreading in the client machine. I’ve
>> also updated the firmware on the client machine. Does anyone have any ideas
>> of what I might try next?
>>
>>
>>
>> Node Hardware
>> IBM x3850 X5
>> 256 GB RAM
>> Machine Type 7143 AC1
>> 4 x Intell Xeon E7 4820
>>
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