On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:03 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Nope, I know for a fact that there was no OS on the compute node's drive
> before I started. The image installed on the machine.  For example, The
> /etc/hosts is correct for what I imaged.  I can use boot cd to get onto
> machine, use chroot (to /mnt/sysimage/) and then nsf mount /home on the
> oscar master node and see files on the head node.  I would not be able to do
> that if the image had not installed.
>
> The major hardware difference is the hard drive (4TB raid on master node and
> 73 GB SAS on compute node).
>
> I guess I will simply set up oscar from another fresh OS install on one of
> the compute nodes, then image the other compute nodes (with UYOK).
> What/where will the major differences be on the image from the raid head
> node and the compute node temporarily made to be a head node?  Will the only
> difference important differences show up in the
> /var/lib/systemimager/images/<image_name> directory?

Your log clearly shows that SystemImager cannot detect your HD,
therefore it will not be able to rsync anything over.  So I am
confused how your HD got imaged at all.  Perhaps you pasted a
different log file, I'm not sure.  What should've happened after
"enumerate_disks" is "DISKS=1" (meaning SystemImager detected you have
1 disk, instead you get DISK=0 meaning SystemImager cannot detect any
disks) and it will start partitioning your disk according to your
.master script and start rsyncing your image over.

Anyway, if your image server has different hardware than your compute
node, you should do a lsmod comparison of the loaded modules between
your image server and compute node, and attempt to load the missing
storage modules on your image server.  Once they are loaded with
modprobe, re-run UYOK kernel/initrd generation, that should create a
ramdisk with the suitable storage adaptor (SAS) modules loaded which
should hopefully work with your client imaging.

If you are to use a compute node as a headnode, you will not be able
to use your original headnode to control your compute nodes, i.e. with
any manual hackery.  The created image (in
/var/lib/systemimager/images) should be identical, the only difference
should be the UYOK initrd (which when generated on your compute node
should contain the correct storage modules).

Regards,

Bernard

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