Are you booting 1Gb or 10Gb? I ask because I recently saw a case where booting over 10Gb (broadcom netxtreme) would freeze after loading no more than 27% of the kernel. A firmware update released last week solved that.
For the partitioning, I used this guide: https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Installing_Stateful_Linux_Nodes/ Important bits: Assign file to the osimage you're using chdef -t osimage <osimagename> partitionfile=/install/custom/my-partitions vi the file and make whatever changes you need. # Uncomment this efi line for x86_64 servers #part /boot/efi --size 50 --ondisk /dev/sda --fstype efi part /boot --size 256 --fstype ext4 part swap --recommended --ondisk sda part / --size 1 --grow --fstype ext4 --ondisk sda On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:25 PM Calvin Dodge <caldo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Has anyone successfully deployed xCAT to a Dell R740? > > The head node is running CentOS 7.6, and the xCAT version is 2.14.6. > > > In our case, PXE booting via UEFI failed after it loaded the binary elilo > image. We switched to BIOS booting, and the installer starts to run, but > then says "OS installation aborted" after a couple of seconds. > > /tmp/program.log consists of the following: > > 21:09:27,695 INFO program: Running... ipmitool event file /tmp/tmpSBo7uv > 21:09:27,821 INFO program: 0 | Pre-Init |0000000000| OS Boot | > Installation started | Asserted > 21:09:27,821 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:28,095 INFO program: Running... losetup --list > 21:09:28,113 INFO program: Running... /sbin/auditd > 21:09:28,118 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:28,119 INFO program: Running... udevadm control --env=ANACONDA=1 > 21:09:28,130 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:28,151 INFO program: Running... /bin/sh /tmp/ks-script-l9VDut > 21:09:29,008 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,219 INFO program: Running... udevadm trigger --action=change > --subsystem-match=block > 21:09:29,230 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,230 INFO program: Running... udevadm settle --timeout=300 > 21:09:29,264 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,265 INFO program: Running... modprobe fcoe > 21:09:29,327 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,329 INFO program: Running... /usr/libexec/fcoe/fcoe_edd.sh -i > 21:09:29,336 INFO program: No FCoE boot disk information is found in EDD! > 21:09:29,337 DEBUG program: Return code: 1 > 21:09:29,341 INFO program: Running... udevadm settle --timeout=300 > 21:09:29,350 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,353 INFO program: Running... udevadm settle --timeout=300 > 21:09:29,362 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,364 INFO program: Running... udevadm settle --timeout=300 > 21:09:29,373 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > 21:09:29,379 INFO program: Running... ipmitool event file /tmp/tmpT0H9KJ > 21:09:29,462 INFO program: 0 | Pre-Init |0000000000| OS Boot | > Installation aborted | Asserted > 21:09:29,462 DEBUG program: Return code: 0 > > We specified a custom partition file creation script, but it appears it's > not being used. > > Got any clues for me? What other information should I post? > > Calvin Dodge > _______________________________________________ > xCAT-user mailing list > xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user >
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