In order to provision x86_64 ipmi-based machines from Power-based xCAT management node, there are a few required xCAT dependency RPMs that must be installed:
elilo-xcat
xnba-undi
syslinux-xcat
Install these RPMs using the following command:
yum install elilo-xcat xnba-undi syslinux-xcat
On the Power-based management node, obtain an x86_64 operating system ISO and add it into the xCAT osimage table by using the copycds
command:
copycds /tmp/RHEL-6.6-20140926.0-Server-x86_64-dvd1.iso
Create a node definition for the x86_64 compute node, here is a sample:
lsdef -z c910f04x42 # <xCAT data object stanza file> c910f04x42: objtype=node arch=x86_64 bmc=10.4.42.254 bmcpassword=PASSW0RD bmcusername=USERID cons=ipmi groups=all initrd=xcat/osimage/rhels6.6-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img installnic=mac kcmdline=quiet repo=http://!myipfn!:80/install/rhels6.6/x86_64 ks=http://!myipfn!:80/install/autoinst/c910f04x42 ksdevice=34:40:b5:b9:c0:18 cmdline console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8r kernel=xcat/osimage/rhels6.6-x86_64-install-compute/vmlinuz mac=34:40:b5:b9:c0:18 mgt=ipmi netboot=xnba nodetype=osi os=rhels6.6 profile=compute provmethod=rhels6.6-x86_64-install-compute serialflow=hard serialport=0 serialspeed=115200
Verify the genesis packages:
- [RHEL/SLES]:
rpm -qa | grep -i genesis
- [Ubuntu]:
dpkg -l | grep -i genesis
If missing, install the packages xCAT-genesis-base
and xCAT-genesis-scripts
from xcat-deps
repository and run mknb <arch>
to create the genesis network boot root image.
Provision the node using the following commands:
# The following prepares the boot files in /install and /tftpboot nodeset c910f04x42 osimage=rhels6.6-x86_64-install-compute # Tells the BIOS to network boot on the next power on rsetboot c910f04x42 net # Reboots the node rpower c910f04x42 boot