About 15% of my blades wont kickstart. I checked to see, and they all seem to be 100% compatible.
I currently do not own/direct access the kickstart server, I will build one later.
Is it possible they fat fingered the MAC address of the problem blades when they put them into the PXE server? As I can build them from a locally mounted virtual CD, but cannot build from PXE
At first I was getting a grub error. When I installed a baseline Centos locally, and then pxe booted for the build. I got a cannot find C0T0 which indicates it cannot find the first drive (kickstart uses sda1), yet I look in the drac and I can see C0T0 drive as well as C0t1 drive (this is a raid 1 virtual drive no mirror)
So here is my big question: can I put my primary drive in slot sda2 on the blade... then DD the drive from the working blade, change the MAC address in the network interface, change the hostname/IP address in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0 to build the drives?
What are the risks? what are the gotcha's? what problems will I have DD ing a drive that is currently the boot drive?
Any suggestions are welcome