topic Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i in Operating System - Linux

PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Simpat — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:01:41 GMT

Hi Folks, I know that we can deploy CentOS 7.x using HPVSA and with linux dd , and then modprobe.blacklist=ahci inst.dd
follow this instruction:
http://serverfault.com/questions/680543/how-do-i-load-hpvsa-ko-raid-controller-b120i-module-in-centos-7-1

But I dont want to do it manually each servers, because I have many servers with this RAID model.
Does anyone know how to load driver hpvsa in KickStart?

Thanks in advance,

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Jimmy Vance — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:57:27 GMT

Are you using PXE boot to kick everything off?

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

gkrunal — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:35:18 GMT

Here is our setup, please update as per your need.

label rhel6u4_64_autodud_hpvsa

kernel rhel6/u4/64/vmlinuz

append initrd=rhel6/u4/64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=16384 ip=dhcp ks=http://XX.XX.XX.XX/autoks/pxe/RHEL6/rhel6u4_64-hpvsa-ks-d.cfg ksdevice=eth0 noipv6 dd=http://XX.XX.XX.XX/autodud/hpvsa/hpvsa-1.2.8-160.rhel6u4.x86_64.dd blacklist=ahci”

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Jimmy Vance — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:01:48 GMT

Here is an entry for a 6.7 installation, 6.5 would be a similar syntax. I do see in your config 'noipv6' and 'dd' don't have a space between them, but I'm assuming that is just a linewrap issue when you pasted the line into the forum.

label=rhel6.7hpdsa
kernel RHEL6.7/vmlinuz
append=ksdevice=eth1 initrd=RHEL6.7/initrd.img blacklist=ahci dd=http://192.168.1.1/repo/hpdsa/rh6.7/hpdsa.dd repo=http://192.168.1.1/repo/RHEL6.7/disc1 ks=http://192.168.1.1/repo/answers/rhel6.x-cert.ks

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

gkrunal — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 00:35:39 GMT

yes updated.

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Jimmy Vance — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 05:19:51 GMT

@gkrunal wrote:
yes updated.

So is it working now?

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Simpat — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:49:50 GMT

Hi, Sorry for late reply. I just come back from vacations. I will try this tomorrow and will let you know.

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

gkrunal — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 20:58:31 GMT

for me it was working fine without any issue I have just updated the syntex with space bet'n 'noipv6' and 'dd' , it was copy paste typo error.

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Simpat — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 19:42:42 GMT

I use Cobbler PXE KickStart it. I put

Here is my options:

ksdevice=eth0 noipv6 dd=http://192.168.1.250/drivers/hpvsa-1.2.14-113.rhel7u2.x86_64.dd blacklist=ahci

I still have problem:

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

Simpat — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 19:46:31 GMT

Do I need to...

- Change RBSU for SATA Option for AHCI or Legacy Support ?

- Do I need this optioin instead? modprobe.blacklist=ahci inst.dd

Re: PXE KickStart for SmartArray B120i,B320i

gkrunal — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 05:10:46 GMT

Yes for CENTO7 you will need to add

modprobe.blacklist=ahci inst.dd

Also have you configured RAID setting via ACU ?