I would appreciate it if anyone had any suggestions. I have posted questions several times to SIS and have received little no responses.
I am running OSCAR 5.0 on a head node with rhel4.5 i386 I have 2 client nodes with rhel4.5 i386 I want to add 8 new nodes with rhel5 X64 bit and the hardware is slightly different I created a golden client with rhel5 X64 Ran si_prepareclient successfully Ran si_getimage off of the head node successfully Ran integrate_image --arch x86_64 from golden client image and it integrated into my OSCAR setup successfully Then I added my clients sucessfully. Now the struggle has been systemimager not pushing the golden client image onto the new nodes I found that the master node does not contain any directories for 64 bit in system imager, 32 bit yes but not 64. It does contain my golden client image which is 64 bit but nothing under SI standard 64 bit i.e /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/ On the Client node there is SI 64 bit but nothing for 32 bit. So I did the following (below). I think this mismatch is what caused sytemconfigurator to initially to fail. Does the head node need SI64 bit? I dont think I can install that on since the OS is i386 correct? I thought copying the the 64 bit tools in the /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/ directory could work since the client node is just looking for the kernel and initrd.img to get started. I logged on to the golden client and copied the standard 64 bit directory from system imager onto the master node. I made a new install-kernel-x86_64 file by cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/initrd.img install-initrd-x86_64.img and cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/kernel install-kernel-x86_64 Created /tftpboot/install-x86_64 with this content: #--- install-x86_64 --- DEFAULT systemimager DISPLAY message.txt PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 50 LABEL systemimager KERNEL install-kernel-x86_64 APPEND vga=extended initrd=install-initrd-x86_64.img root=/dev/ram MONITOR_SERVER=192.168.8.1 Updated /etc/netbootmgr.conf with this menu option MENU Install_64bit:install-x86_64 Went into the net boot mgr GUI in OSCAR and set it to boot up the 64 bit Image. Booted up the new client node and watched to see if it would capture the image. System imager begins to load but fails a lot faster this time with this error Error: could not stat device /dev/sda no such file or directory and Error: the location 106.97 is outside the device /dev/sda I began to gave up on the SI 64 bit kernel idea and thought I would try the rhel5 kernel in the golden client image except this time I would create the install-*-x86_64 files from the golden client image. This just lead to another kernel panic error. Again if anyone is out there that can provide me any support I would really appreciate it Thanks -Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
