IBM System Cluster 1350, Installation And Service

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Q: Why doesn’t the storage node see the drives on the FastT700, but the orange
light on the host adapter card still blinks?
A: The qla2300 driver did not load properly. Make sure the proper version of the
driver is installed.
Q: What is causing Suse/Sles to continously install the nodes?
A: Check that fully qualified names (host.domainname) are used in the /etc/hosts
file and that the command dnsdomainname returns the correct domainname. Also
make sure that
/etc/dhcpd.conf file contains the line: ’option domain-name
″
cluster.net
″
;’
Once these changes have been made run the csmsetupsis command and then
rerun the installnode command. If the install still cycles then edit the
/csminstall/Linux/SIS/scripts/<hostname>.sh file and comment out the shutdown line
near the bottom of the file. Now using the console watch the boot and the error
messages should be on the console when the process has completed.
Q: Why do SuSE/SLES installs take forever?
A: Issue the installnode command and then on the management node immediately
edit the / tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/AC* files. Take out console= portion from the APPEND
line. Now all messages will go to the KVM console and the install will be quicker.
Q: Why do SuSE/SLES installs fail but issue no error message?
A: Modify the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/*.sis file for the node you are trying to install and
remove the console=ttyS0,9600 line. Then use the KVM and switch to that node and
you can see the error msg.
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