Can't do the PXE boot

[iquasere]

Dear creators of BlueBanquise,

I love this tutorial. It taught me a lot about setting up an HPC. However, I still haven't been able to do the PXE boot for the nodes.

I am running the cluster on VirtualBox, and this is the output I get when trying to start the thor node.

I ran all steps, with the addition of systemctl restart fbtftp_server, which improved a bit the output, because before thor was requesting a different IP, no idea why. Now it gets assigned the right IP, but can't find the kpxe file.

Output from journalctl -u dhcpd -u fbtftp_server -f

Dec 10 03:44:38 odin.cluster.local dhcpd[62019]: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:27:7e:14:7b via enp0s8
Dec 10 03:44:38 odin.cluster.local dhcpd[62019]: DHCPOFFER on 10.10.1.1 to 08:00:27:7e:14:7b via enp0s8
Dec 10 03:44:39 odin.cluster.local dhcpd[62019]: DHCPDISCOVER from 08:00:27:7e:14:7b via enp0s8
Dec 10 03:44:39 odin.cluster.local dhcpd[62019]: DHCPOFFER on 10.10.1.1 to 08:00:27:7e:14:7b via enp0s8
Dec 10 03:44:41 odin.cluster.local dhcpd[62019]: DHCPREQUEST for 10.10.1.1 (10.10.0.1) from 08:00:27:7e:14:7b via enp0s8
Dec 10 03:44:41 odin.cluster.local dhcpd[62019]: DHCPACK on 10.10.1.1 to 08:00:27:7e:14:7b via enp0s8

Output from tail -f /var/log/httpd/*

==> /var/log/httpd/access_log <==
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:16:52:24 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/extra/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 3077 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:16:52:24 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/BaseOS/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 4164 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:16:52:24 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/AppStream/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 4602 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:20:03:57 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/extra/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 3077 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:20:03:57 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/BaseOS/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 4164 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:20:03:57 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/AppStream/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 4602 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:23:51:25 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/extra/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 3077 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:23:51:25 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/BaseOS/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 4164 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [09/Dec/2024:23:51:25 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/AppStream/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 4602 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"
10.10.0.1 - - [10/Dec/2024:03:39:48 -0500] "GET /repositories/centos/8/x86_64/os/AppStream/Packages/t/tftp-5.2-38.el9.x86_64.rpm HTTP/1.1" 200 32951 "-" "libdnf (Rocky Linux 9.5; generic; Linux.x86_64)"

==> /var/log/httpd/error_log <==
[Mon Dec 09 10:34:51.661735 2024] [core:notice] [pid 2662:tid 2662] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Mon Dec 09 10:34:51.667083 2024] [suexec:notice] [pid 2662:tid 2662] AH01232: suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Mon Dec 09 10:34:51.741911 2024] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 2662:tid 2662] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor
[Mon Dec 09 10:34:51.745995 2024] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 2662:tid 2662] AH00489: Apache/2.4.62 (Rocky Linux) configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Dec 09 10:34:51.746011 2024] [core:notice] [pid 2662:tid 2662] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'

[oxedions]

Dear @iquasere

Thank you very much for this feedback. I moved this content to bluebanquise/bluebanquise some time ago.
Did you used the https://bluebanquise.com/tutorials/sysadmin_servers_farm_deployment/ tutorial ?

Anyways, I could see recently that many users had an issue with the PXE part of the tutorial. I will replay it and check what is going on. Please give me 2-3 days, I need to launch a new VM an test it with recent versions of the RockyLinux 9 😊

[iquasere]

Thank you very much for the quick response @oxedions. That was, in fact, the tutorial that I was following. But I believe is the same as the one in this repo?

[oxedions]

Hello again ! 😊

I answered here: bluebanquise/bluebanquise#995

Please let answer on this discussion directly, so we use the main bluebanquise repository 😉

I will update the tutorial with these changes as soon as possible.

[iquasere]

That was really quick! I'll keep discussion going there, then