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clarify osimage partitionfile description

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mellor 2014-06-02 15:14:55 -04:00
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@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ linuximage => {
table_desc => 'Information about a Linux operating system image that can be used to deploy cluster nodes.',
descriptions => {
imagename => 'The name of this xCAT OS image definition.',
template => 'The fully qualified name of the template file that is used to create the kick start file for diskful installation.',
template => 'The fully qualified name of the template file that will be used to create the OS installer configuration file for stateful installations (e.g. kickstart for RedHat, autoyast for SLES).',
boottarget => 'The name of the boottarget definition. When this attribute is set, xCAT will use the kernel, initrd and kernel params defined in the boottarget definition instead of the default.',
addkcmdline=> 'User specified arguments to be passed to the kernel. The user arguments are appended to xCAT.s default kernel arguments. This attribute is ignored if linuximage.boottarget is set.',
pkglist => 'The fully qualified name of the file that stores the distro packages list that will be included in the image. Make sure that if the pkgs in the pkglist have dependency pkgs, the dependency pkgs should be found in one of the pkgdir',
@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ linuximage => {
permission => 'The mount permission of /.statelite directory is used, its default value is 755',
dump => qq{The NFS directory to hold the Linux kernel dump file (vmcore) when the node with this image crashes, its format is "nfs://<nfs_server_ip>/<kdump_path>". If you want to use the node's "xcatmaster" (its SN or MN), <nfs_server_ip> can be left blank. For example, "nfs:///<kdump_path>" means the NFS directory to hold the kernel dump file is on the node's SN, or MN if there's no SN.},
crashkernelsize => 'the size that assigned to the kdump kernel. If the kernel size is not set, 256M will be the default value.',
partitionfile => 'The path of the configuration file which is used to part the disk for the node. For stateful: two types of value can be set for this attribute. One is "<partition file absolute path>", the content of the partition file must use the corresponding format with the OS type. The other one is "s:<partition file absolute path>", the content of the partition file should be a shell script which must write the partition definition into /tmp/partitionfile on the node. For statelite: the valid value is <partition file absolute path>, refer to the statelite doc for the xCAT defined format of the configuration file.',
partitionfile => 'The path of the configuration file which will be used to partition the disk for the node. For stateful osimages,two types of files are supported: "<partition file absolute path>" which contains a partitioning definition that will be inserted directly into the generated autoinst configuration file and must be formatted for the corresponding OS installer (e.g. kickstart for RedHat, autoyast for SLES). "s:<partitioning script absolute path>" which specifies a shell script that will be run from the OS installer configuration file %pre section; the script must write the correct partitioning definition into the file /tmp/partitionfile on the node which will be included into the configuration file during the install process. For statelite osimages, partitionfile should specify "<partition file absolute path>"; see the xCAT Statelite documentation for the xCAT defined format of this configuration file.',
driverupdatesrc => 'The source of the drivers which need to be loaded during the boot. Two types of driver update source are supported: Driver update disk and Driver rpm package. The value for this attribute should be comma separated sources. Each source should be the format tab:full_path_of_srouce_file. The tab keyword can be: dud (for Driver update disk) and rpm (for driver rpm). If missing the tab, the rpm format is the default. e.g. dud:/install/dud/dd.img,rpm:/install/rpm/d.rpm',
comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",
@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ winimage => {
imagename => 'The name of this xCAT OS image definition.',
template => 'The fully qualified name of the template file that is used to create the windows unattend.xml file for diskful installation.',
installto => 'The disk and partition that the Windows will be deployed to. The valid format is <disk>:<partition>. If not set, default value is 0:1 for bios boot mode(legacy) and 0:3 for uefi boot mode; If setting to 1, it means 1:1 for bios boot and 1:3 for uefi boot',
partitionfile => 'The path of partition configuration file. Since the partition configuration for bios boot mode and uefi boot mode are different, this configuration file should include two parts if customer wants to support both bios and uefi mode. If customer just wants to support one of the modes, specify one of them anyway. Example of partition configuration file: [BIOS]xxxxxxx[UEFI]yyyyyyy. To simplify the setting, you also can set installto in partitionfile with section likes [INSTALLTO]0:1',
partitionfile => 'The path of partition configuration file. Since the partition configuration for bios boot mode and uefi boot mode are different, this configuration file can include both configurations if you need to support both bios and uefi mode. Either way, you must specify the boot mode in the configuration. Example of partition configuration file: [BIOS]xxxxxxx[UEFI]yyyyyyy. To simplify the setting, you also can set installto in partitionfile with section like [INSTALLTO]0:1',
winpepath => 'The path of winpe which will be used to boot this image. If the real path is /tftpboot/winboot/winpe1/, the value for winpepath should be set to winboot/winpe1',
comments => 'Any user-written notes.',
disable => "Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.",