Hi, We would very much like to try out SALI to install nodes on two small clusters. Hardware is HP servers with intel Xeon Nehalem based CPUs. We have installed frontends and a single node with CentOS 6.
We have tried to use SystemImager scripts, but so far the effort has stranded on missing boot strappers (grub/grub2) in the busybox (I presume). Also, an expected command "discover" was not found. We have successfully taken an image, and we can distribute the image to a new node up to and including transfering files. Disk partitioning seems to work, although (as I have seen before with systemimager) some partitions may not end on a cylinder. But after testing for systemconfigurator (found as 2.2.11) things starts to go amiss: First there is a complaint "NETWORK_HOSTNAME expects an argument at line 2" Then initrd is detected and set up as type "Initrd::RH". This should be OK, since we run CentOS - a RHEL clone. Also the vmlinuz kernel seems to be detected OK. There is complaint that /proc/cpuinfo doesn't exist, and problems with copy of /proc/mounts. It seems to figure out that it should use Grub, but it does not work out, and the final error is: Error: None of the following bootloaders were successfully setup on your system: ... :: An error has occured, ... and the process stops. In Busybox I find no /sbin/grub* commands, which could explain the problem. I have grub in the transferred node image (/a/sbin/grub*), but that is a different story. Also, the "discover" command is not found. I am pretty sure that we use the SALI kernel and initrd. tftpboot seems to work also, but there are likely more than a single thing wrong. I don't know, if I should keep to try having the system-imager scripts as the basis, or if I should try to switch to full-fledged SALI. I should like to try the latter, but I don't see much of "Howto", "Get started" or "FAQ" on the SALI page. I don't mind to have to fill in some of that info eventually, but I simply don't know where to start to get the things together. I am not a novice with regard to linux system administration, but I do not have extensive experience with systemimager or how the inner parts of kernel/initrd.img works. All help is welcome! Bjarne Büchmann MSc, PhD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
