I flipped the client over to BIOS boot mode yesterday and that resolved the issue.
Thanks, John From: Sam Davis <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 7:30 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] pxe boot timeout I had what sounds like the same issue on a Dell 6420. We had to update the bios and use BIOS boot mode instead of UEFI. Sam Davis Kennesaw State University On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 6:21 PM John McCulloch <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I am troubleshooting an image load issue on a new install. When attempting to download the diskless image / hostname.uefi file, the client returns "Connection timed out (http://ipxe.org/4c0a6012)" In the past we’ve had this sort of issue with spanning-tree running on the switch. We have configured the switch with all ports set to “spanning-tree rstp edge-port” xCAT is running in a VM on a Dell R640 Red Hat Virtualization host. The client compute node is a Dell C6420 The client NIC is a BRCM GbE 4P 5720-t rNDC From a Dell R640 on the same network we're able to retrieve the hostname.uefi file: [root@apollo-m-01 ~]# wget http://<address>:80/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi<http://%3caddress%3e:80/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi> --2019-06-12 16:59:28-- http://<address>/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi<http://%3caddress%3e/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.uefi> Connecting to <address>:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 113 Saving to: ‘apollo-g-01.uefi’ 100%[===================================================================================================================================>] 113 --.-K/s in 0s 2019-06-12 16:59:28 (18.9 MB/s) - ‘apollo-g-01.uefi’ saved [113/113] [root@apollo-m-01 ~]# cat apollo-g-01.uefi #!gpxe chain http://${next-server}:80/tftpboot/xcat/elilo-x64.efi -C /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.elilo<http://$%7bnext-server%7d:80/tftpboot/xcat/elilo-x64.efi%20-C%20/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/apollo-g-01.elilo> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Regards, John McCulloch PCPC Direct, Ltd. _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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