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Merge pull request #7024 from gurevichmark/workaround_genesis

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Update genesis-base building instructions
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@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ To support the Power9 hardware, changes are made to the kernel in the Red Hat En
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.. note:: The genesis-base must be compiled on the Power9 hardware. If the management node is not Power9 hardware, manually provision a compute node, build the genesis-base RPM, then install it on the management node.
.. note:: The genesis-base must be compiled on the Power9 hardware, running RHEL7. If the management node is not Power9 hardware, manually provision a RHEL7 compute node, build the genesis-base RPM, then install it on the management node.
xCAT cannot ship a kernel based on RHEL distribution, so the customer needs to build a version of the ``xCAT-genesis-base`` on-site using a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
xCAT cannot ship a kernel based on RHEL distribution, so the customer needs to build a version of the ``xCAT-genesis-base`` on-site using a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Building ``xCAT-genesis-base`` on a server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is currently not supported.
1. Download the latest timestamp version of the ``xCAT-genesis-builder`` RPM provided here: http://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/
2. Install the ``xCAT-genesis-builder`` RPM on a node that is installed with the RHEL version being deployed.
2. Install the ``xCAT-genesis-builder`` RPM on a node that is installed with the RHEL version 7.
3. Build the ``xCAT-genesis-base`` RPM: ::