[xcat-user] tftp not having correct files

[John Griffin-Wiesner]

That's what I was wondering most about.


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:56:33PM -0400, Jarrod B Johnson wrote:
> 
> Guess I might want to point out specifically the '5/' in front of
> pxelinux.0, which strikes me as... surprising...
> 
> 
>                                                                        
>   From:       "Vallard Benincosa" <vallard at gmail.com>                  
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>   To:         "xCAT Users Mailing list" <xcat-user at lists.xcat.org>     
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>   Date:       09/11/2008 06:54 PM                                      
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>   Subject:    Re: [xcat-user] tftp not having correct files            
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I know there used to be a bug with SLES 10 where it wasn't pulling
> pxelinux.0 into the /tftpboot directory.  I'd check there first.  If  its
> not there, then copy it from wherever the syslinux rpm puts it.
> 
> Running mknb should do this for you.  Try running mknb x86_64 and then
> check to see if its there.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 2:24 PM, John Griffin-Wiesner <johngw at msi.umn.edu>
> wrote:
>   I'm working on setting up xCAT 2.0.2 on a SLES10.2 mm - working
>   through the latest version of the cookbook.
> 
>   When I try to install a node the tftp server is not finding what it
>   needs.
> 
>   One the LS21 blade console after it gets the dhcp settings I see:
>   TFTP.
>   PXE*T01: File not found
>   PXE*E3B: TFTP Error * File Not found
>   PXE*M0F: Exiting Broadcom PXE ROM.
> 
>   I've turned up logging on atftp and that says this:
>   Sep 10 16:27:53 bcx atftpd[26083]: Serving pxelinux.0 to
>   172.20.106.11:2070
>   Sep 10 16:27:53 bcx atftpd[26083]: File 5/pxelinux.0 not found
>   Sep 10 16:27:53 bcx atftpd[26083]: Server thread exiting
>   Sep 10 16:27:53 bcx atftpd[26083]: Serving pxelinux.0 to
>   172.20.106.11:2071
>   Sep 10 16:27:53 bcx atftpd[26083]: File 5/pxelinux.0 not found
>   Sep 10 16:27:53 bcx atftpd[26083]: Server thread exiting
> 
>   The blade I'm trying to install is named "blade291".
> 
>   [root at bcx sysconfig]# lsdef blade291
> 
>   Object name: blade291
>      arch=x86_64
>      cons=blade
>      currchain=boot
>      currstate=install sles10.2-x86_64-compute
>      groups=all,server,rack06,bc21
>      id=11
>      initrd=xcat/sles10.2/x86_64/initrd
>      kcmdline=autoyast=http://blade294/install/autoinst/blade291 install=
>   http://blade294/install/sles10.2/x86_64/1 netdevice=eth0
>   console=ttyS1,19200n8r
>      kernel=xcat/sles10.2/x86_64/linux
>      mac=00:14:5E:6D:0B:3E
>      mgt=blade
>      mpa=bc21
>      nodetype=blade
>      os=sles10.2
>      profile=compute
>      serialflow=hard
>      serialport=1
>      serialspeed=19200
>      servicenode=blade294
>      xcatmaster=blade294
> 
>   [root at bcx sysconfig]# locate blade291 |xargs file
>   /install/autoinst/blade291:              XML document text
>   /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/blade291:         ASCII text
>   /var/ftp/install/autoinst/blade291:      XML document text
>   /var/ftp/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/blade291: ASCII text
>   /var/log/consoles/blade291:              ASCII text, with CRLF, CR line
>   terminators
> 
>   [root at bcx sysconfig]# locate blade291 |xargs ls -l
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    7699 Sep 10 15:58 /install/autoinst/blade291
>   -rw-r--r-- 2 root root     274 Sep 10
>   15:58 /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/blade291
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    7699 Sep 10
>   15:58 /var/ftp/install/autoinst/blade291
>   -rw-r--r-- 2 root root     274 Sep 10
>   15:58 /var/ftp/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/blade291
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1557201 Sep 11 16:00 /var/log/consoles/blade291
> 
>   What did I miss?
> 
> 
>   --
>   John Griffin-Wiesner
>   Linux Cluster/Unix Systems Administrator
>   Univ. MN Supercomputing Institute
>   http://www.msi.umn.edu.
>   johngw at msi.umn.edu
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John Griffin-Wiesner
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