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Adding some notes to clarify based on some internal questions that have been raised on this workaround

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xCAT Genesis Base
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*Note*: Please rebuild ``xCAT-genesis-base`` with ``xCAT-genesis-builder`` version equal and newer than *2.13.10* before updating xCAT *2.13.10* and higher.
.. note:: Ensure that you rebuild ``xCAT-genesis-base`` with ``xCAT-genesis-builder`` version >= to *2.13.10* before updating xCAT to *2.13.10* or higher.
xCAT ships a ``xCAT-genesis-base`` package as part of xcat-deps. This is a light-weight diskless linux image based on Fedora (Fedora26, currently) that is used by xCAT to do hardware discovery.
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Work-around
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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.
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.
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/