From 2d4f12f4c79314287e7cbf091410b47c7db0c578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarrod Johnson Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 13:20:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add notes about old OS and UEFI boot in man pages. --- xCAT-client/pods/man8/makedhcp.8.pod | 3 ++- xCAT-client/pods/man8/nodeset.8.pod | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man8/makedhcp.8.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man8/makedhcp.8.pod index 32d2b52bf..95a16633c 100644 --- a/xCAT-client/pods/man8/makedhcp.8.pod +++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man8/makedhcp.8.pod @@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ B B<[-h|--help]> =head1 DESCRIPTION The B command creates and updates the DHCP configuration on the management node and service nodes. -The B command is supported for both Linux and AIX clusters. +The B command is supported for both Linux and AIX clusters. Note that it will intentionally not +generate UEFI configuration if the OS indicated in nodetype.os is not UEFI supported, even if the OS being booted is shell. =over 3 diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man8/nodeset.8.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man8/nodeset.8.pod index bf6692de5..1265f9bb7 100644 --- a/xCAT-client/pods/man8/nodeset.8.pod +++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man8/nodeset.8.pod @@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ nodes or groups. It tells xCAT what you want to happen the next time the nodes are booted up. See L. B accomplishes this by changing the network boot files. Each xCAT node always boots from the network and downloads a boot file with instructions on what action to -take next. +take next. Should the nodetype.os indicates an OS that does not support UEFI +boot, then the dhcp definition will not include UEFI boot directives, even +if doing B. B will manipulate the boot configuration files of xnba, grub2, petitboot, yaboot and pxelinux.0.