Re: Kickstart install over gige interface on HP zx6000

Sure,

1.  Power on machine.  We are running 1.94 firmware on our nodes
2.  At EFI menu, select EFI shell
3.  At EFI shell, run "lanboot select"
4.  Select interface 2, which is gige
  - I have that mac address manually added in my dhcpd.conf file so that
it will recieve a specific address
5.  At this point, it works.  The gige interface receives an IP address
and begins to uncompress the kernel.  My elilo.conf file looks like this

prompt
timeout=10
image=vmlinuz
        label=linux
        read-only
        append="console=ttyS0 ramdisk_size=24576 ks=file:/tmp/ks.cfg
ksdevice=eth1 maxcpus=1"
        initrd=initrd.img

6.  I get to the installation screen where it loads some scsi drivers.
Right after that it tries to get an address again, and it hangs.

With the 10/100 interface, it immediately goes into the install and there
is no delay whatsoever.  It doesn't try to grab an address again, its
almost as if its passed into the installation somehow.

I have systemimager setup.  At the end of my kickstart install I do some
imaging of extra misc software that is not packaged.  But, I never could
get the boot process to work for the sis stuff, so I gave up and started
working on kickstart.

Jason P Holland
Texas Learning and Computation Center
http://www.tlc2.uh.edu
University of Houston
Philip G Hoffman Hall rm 207A
tel: 713-743-4850
cell: 281-451-5991

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Brent M. Clements wrote:

> Jason,
>  Can you please describe your EXACT boot process(from machine startup to
> installer screen) when you try to install one of these nodes. I think you
> have a problem with the way your actually installing it not in the
> configuration.
>
> We've had no problems whatsoever installing these machines here at Rice
> and we are using the GigE ports. Then again, we decided NOT to go with
> kickstart and use SIS instead based on a large number of
> researched factors.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Brent Clements
> HPC Technology Specialist
> Information Technology
> Rice University
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Jason Holland wrote:
>
> >
> > I have discovered something else.  When I use the 10/100 interface, from
> > the efi shell I initiate a lanboot and I see the DHCP requests in the logs
> > on the dhcp server.  However, when it starts the install, I don't see
> > another DHCP request, even though I specified that for the install and its
> > getting a dynamic address and somehow using it.  Why in the world is that?
> > Is it somehow passing the initial ip address into the install?  How would
> > it know where to get it from??
> >
> > Jason P Holland
> > Texas Learning and Computation Center
> > http://www.tlc2.uh.edu
> > University of Houston
> > Philip G Hoffman Hall rm 207A
> > tel: 713-743-4850
> > cell: 281-451-5991
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Brent M. Clements wrote:
> >
> > > Jason,
> > >  If your not getting a dhcp request from the machine then you have another
> > > problem. Either configuration or hardware on the client. Check the cable.
> > >
> > > Can you send your kickstart file to me?
> > >
> > > -Brent
> > >
> > > Brent Clements
> > > HPC Technology Specialist
> > > Information Technology
> > > Rice University
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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