Thanks— I’ll check that out. I think I may be in a chicken/egg problem. So my basic steps:
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Boot to USB drive… Install Ubuntu 20.04 stock… At this point, the ONLY thing I do is assign a static IP address to ENO1 so I can access the network.
→ I manually configure 8.8.8.8 and my University’s local DNS server
(( Since I haven’t set up MAAS yet, there is no other DNS server to add/list )) -
Plug in ENO2 (RED) to my IPMI network… assign static IP address
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Go through installation steps for stock ubuntu, reboot, do apt-get update/upgrade/etc…
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For sanity sake, do a reboot… system is now MAAS ready…
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Follow instructions on maas.io… Install MAAS snap, install local postgres database, MAAS is now running.
So I set my ENO4 to have a static IP address of 192.168.30.1 … and give it a subnet of 255.255.252.0…
I haven’t added a default gateway for this adapter/specified DNS/ etc…
So within MAAS, I now have the above settings… I haven’t found very clear documentation on setting up the network for PXE booting… and I have found the documentation if I should / shouldn’t set up any gateway information/ DNS for this network. This network was created ad hoc for MAAS, so it’s unclear if I should/shouldn’t fill in.
So this network as per the above info, is actually able to PXE boot machines… although I haven’t gone any further.
I still am unable to do an nslookup on the host machine for any machine, even though the IP addresses are listed in the MAAS provisioning UI…
