Hi Frank,
If you are able to provision the nodes with both diskless and diskfull
images of RHEL 7.{7,8}, you probably do not need the xNBA patches.
The newest version of SLES 12 that is officially supported by xCAT is SLES
12.3, so it is possible that changes between SLES 12.3 and 12.{4,5} might
be involved.
Are you able to successfully install the nodes with SLES 12.3?
You might also be able to get some more detailed debug information by
enabling xcatdebugmode in the site table and then watching the node boot
process with xcatprobe osdeploy -n NODENAME.
# Set xcatdebugmode to 1 using tabedit
tabedit site
tabdump site | grep xcatdebugmode
"xcatdebugmode","1",,
# Start the node install using rinstall or rpower, then watch the install
process using:
xcatprobe osdeploy -n NODENAME
Nate
From: "Heckes, Frank" <[email protected]>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Date: 02/03/2021 05:20 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hello Nate,
I replace the xnba files with the one provided here:
https://www.xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xNBA/
both bios and uefi boot failed again in the same scenario.
I also recreated an ipxe.efi binary as described here (
https://github.com/Hoeze/ipxe), but I guess it’s the same binary
as for the link above. Here the efi boot failed, too.
I’m currently using xCAT version 2.15.
Does the latest version contain the patches or even newer supporting the
latest generation of dell r640?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
-Frank
From: Heckes, Frank <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:59
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hello Nate,
Many thanks for your quick reply.
No the nodes affected are all new HW. Interestingly it works with a
RHEL7.{7,8} install and netboot (ramfs).
An older bare-metal node and VMs are still working with a sles12.{4,5}.
Many thanks for the pointer, I forgot to query the github. I’ll check the
patches.
Cheers,
-Frank
From: Nathan A Besaw <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 2021 21:48
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hi Frank,
Have you successfully installed these nodes using xCAT previously or is
this is a new cluster?
If these are newer x86 servers, you may need the patches discussed here:
https://github.com/xcat2/xNBA/issues/2#issuecomment-720693322
Nate
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12.5 on our compute nodes (Dell PowerEdge R640). The i
From: "Heckes, Frank" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: 02/03/2021 02:39 PM
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] sles12.5 net-installation fails
Hi all,
I’ve a problem installing sles12.4 or 12.5 on our compute nodes (Dell
PowerEdge R640). The installation breaks after successfully downloading the
initrd, kernel (via http) and xnba.kpxe file (via tftp).
The installation stops with the linuxrc – tui, immediately after querying
for an IP Address via dhcp. It is possible to start a shell and verify that
the network is up and running (see below).
I don’t see any logfile in the mounted initrd file,and no hint raising the
xCAT debug level to 2.
Does anyone ran into this problem before and has a workaround or at least
an idea how-to enable logging to find the root cause.
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
-Frank Heckes
Expert Mode -> show config
. . .
network interface states: ▒││
│
│ ││ lo: up
▒││ │
│ ││ eth0:
setup-in-progress ▒││
│
│ ││ eth1:
device-unconfigured ▒││
│
│ ││ eth2:
device-unconfigured ▒││
│
│ ││ eth3:
device-unconfigured
Expert Mode -> start shell
Tail of var/log/boot.msg
<6>[ 94.467797] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device eth0
<5>[ 94.508878] [qede_link_update:2409(eth0)]Link is up
<6>[ 94.508923] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Interface is up and can ping xCAT mgmt. node:
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group
default qlen 1000
link/ether 34:80:0d:c1:93:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 134.XX.XXX.XXX/21 brd 134.XX.XXX.XXX scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::3680:dff:fec1:9300/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
ping 134.XX.XXX.244
PING 134.XXX.XXX.XXX (134.XX.XXX.244) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 134.XX.XXX.244: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.147 ms
64 bytes from 134.xx.XXX.244: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.246 ms
64 bytes from 134.XX.XXX.244: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.200 ms
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