[xcat-user] rbootseq failure & 3650m2 PXE boot

[Vallard Benincosa]

what's the FW?  Mine is:

# rinv mm6 firm
mm6: BIOS: NOSUCHINSTANCE (NOSUCHINSTANCE NOSUCHINSTANCE)
mm6: Diagnostics: NOSUCHINSTANCE (NOSUCHINSTANCE NOSUCHINSTANCE)
mm6: BMC/Mgt processor: NOSUCHINSTANCE (NOSUCHINSTANCE)
mm6: Management Module firmware: 48 (BPET48N 06/19/2009)

What type of blades do you have?

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Caruthers, Christian (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE
SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] <christian.caruthers at nasa.gov> wrote:

>  I look the same:
>
> "amm",,"blade",,,,,,,,,,
> "blade",,"blade",,,,,"1","19200","hard",,,
>
> Still the same error!
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* xcat-user-bounces at lists.xcat.org [xcat-user-bounces at lists.xcat.org]
> On Behalf Of Vallard Benincosa [vallard at benincosa.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2009 1:11 PM
> *To:* xCAT Users Mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [xcat-user] rbootseq failure & 3650m2 PXE boot
>
>  Probably not.  My nodehm list looks like this:
>
>
> #node,power,mgt,cons,termserver,termport,conserver,serialport,serialspeed,serialflow,getmac,comments,disable
> "compute",,"blade",,,,,"1","19200","hard",,,
> "mm",,"blade",,,,,,,,,,
>
> These are for older HS21 xM's.  I don't have any HS22s that I can test on.
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Caruthers, Christian (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE
> SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] <christian.caruthers at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> So if rpower works on these blades, but rbootseq doesn't, is there a
>> setting
>> I'm missing?
>>
>>
>> On 9/30/09 12:16 PM, "Vallard Benincosa" <vallard at benincosa.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hmm, perhaps there is a bug?  I wrote a blurb on using asu here:
>> >
>> > http://benincosa.org/blog/?p=17
>> >
>> > Not sure if it helps or not.  I didn't need to set the dx360 M2 to boot
>> off
>> > pxe first cause that's the default setting for the dx360 M2, but there
>> should
>> > be that setting in the x3950 M2.
>> >
>> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Caruthers, Christian
>> (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE
>> > SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] <christian.caruthers at nasa.gov> wrote:
>> >> rpower works fine.
>> >>
>> >> Looking at the output of the asu tool doesn't really point me to
>> anything.
>> >> More specifically, I ran an asu64 -show on a machine and saved the
>> output to
>> >> a
>> >> file, changed the setting in the IMM (RSA for 3950s) and ran it again
>> >> redirecting the output to another file. A diff on both files showed no
>> >> differences. This isn't really xCAt-related, so I'm not pressing for an
>> >> answer. I was just interested to see if anyone had found a way around
>> the web
>> >> interface. I can call support and bug them!
>> >>
>> >> -Thanks
>> >> Christian
>> >>
>> >> From: xcat-user-bounces at lists.xcat.org [
>> xcat-user-bounces at lists.xcat.org] On
>> >> Behalf Of Vallard Benincosa [vallard at benincosa.com]
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 11:23 AM
>> >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list
>> >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] rbootseq failure & 3650m2 PXE boot
>> >>
>> >> Does rpower work on those blades?  Is it just rbootseq that fails?
>> >>
>> >> As far as the x3950 m2 and the x3650 m2, you should be able to use asu
>> to set
>> >> the boot order so that it always boots off the network first.
>> >>
>> >> The ASU tool can be found here:
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>> https://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?lndocid=MI
>> >>
>> G
>> >> R-55021&brandind=5000008
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Caruthers, Christian
>> (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE
>> >> SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC] <christian.caruthers at nasa.gov> wrote:
>> >>> I'm running xCAT-2.2.2-snap2009072113512 and have a couple
>> of questions:
>> >>>
>> >>> I have JS22 and HS21 blades, and running rbootseq returns the
>> following
>> >>> error:
>> >>>
>> >>> # rbootseq bh102 stat
>> >>> bh102: net,hd0,none,none
>> >>> # rbootseq bh102 net,hd0,hd1,none
>> >>> bh102: Error: (genError) A general failure occured
>> >>>
>> >>> I get the same error regardless of what I try to set it.
>> >>>
>> >>> Also, we have some x3950m2 & x3650m2 machines. When we want to PXE
>> boot
>> >>> them,
>> >>> we have to go into the IMM or RSA web interface and enable PXE boot.
>> It's
>> >>> very annoying on machines that are reinstalled frequently. Can this be
>> done
>> >>> with the Advanced Settings Utility or somewhere else without having to
>> go
>> >>> through the web interface?
>> >>>
>> >>> -Christian
>> >>>
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