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.
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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...
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