Thursday, September 21, 2006



Rain stopped play today on the cluster.

The weather was so horrible I stayed at home. Unfortunately this coencided with my PXE boot environment breaking, so that no machine would install itself. As IPMI is not working I couldn't find out why, despite putting some debugging traces into the kickstart file. I suspect the disk formatting might be going wrong - building RAID partitions in kickstart has always seemed flaky.

1 comment:

Graeme Stewart said...

Discovered the problem this morning with the kickstart. In swapping between PHP and bash I had tried to define a shell variable as

$SVR_ROOT=...

This was causing the post install script to bomb!

Grrrrrr...