[CentOS] Kickstarts failing 30% of time on Dell 620 blades

Fri May 9 19:54:37 UTC 2014
Laurent CREPET <pebkac at itguy.fr>

Same BIOS/adapter settings ? Same firmware versions ?


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote:

>
> I have a large set of Dell 620 blades fully populated with memory and
> duel socket CPUs, Centos6.4 image.
>
> I have a kickstart that I am using to pxe boot 36 blades.
> I have two internal drives which are raid1  (two disks formed into one,
> no redundancy), not san attached
> In the first set, 9 successfully completed. 7 more built correctly after
> trying another pxe boot. 2 just wont pxeboot
>
> In the second set I had 11 fail and 5 succeed and the two I tried again
> failed.
> When they fail, they go to GRUB. I try booting from disk from the drac
> and still get grub
> It looks like the complete centos kickstart occurs as it goes through
> the whole install before rebooting and failing.
>
> Any idea why this would happen with identical hardware, identical
> kickstart/image, inside the same blade chassis.
> Any idea what to test.
>
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>
> Dan Hyatt
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