I don't know whether this is applicable to your situation but I have a cluster where if I boot them all at the same time some of the machine don't get their hostname set. Don't know whether the network isn't ready or maybe the dhcp server gets overloaded. I can imagine for your booting this might upset the installation. Another thing: the machines can see the xml file. Can they also see the installation source? Richard Hobbs wrote:
Hello,
I have a working and fully tested DHCP server, TFTP server, NFS file server and XML config profile which I have used to build the first of many servers.
The whole system has worked fine, but now I've hit a rather critical problem - doing more than one server at a time seems to break them all!
I have rebuilt our first server perhaps 15 times due to testing the XML profile, and each time it worked perfectly. I now have 8 machines which I would like to install, so I've copied the 001422B0C61F XML file to a filename which matches the other MAC addresses, and I have told our DHCP server to give out the necessary MAC addresses as well.
The only things I have changed in our XML config profile is the any reference to the hostname, and the MAC address and IP address. Everything else is the same.
When I boot up all 8 machines from the network, they all boot into the boot loader from the TFTP server, and they all boot into autoyast. They all load their own XML config files, but part of the way through installing the packages, the machines hang. Ctrl + Alt + F[1-6] does nothing, so all I can do is reboot using Ctrl + Alt + Del.
The TFTP Server, NFS Server and the server hosting the config profiles (also over NFS) is the same machine, which can easily keep up with the demand for files... So much so, in fact, that the system load hardly increases at all during an install of a remote machine.
What could be stopping me doing multiple NFS autoyast installs??
Any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks in advance, Richard.
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