Sebastian Lara wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/9/3 Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]>: > >> Sebastian Lara wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm trying to revive a Linux Netwox eVelocity 2 Cluster with >>> LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.8 and Etherboot 5.2 on compute nodes. After some >>> trouble, I have access to a shell after node system installation over >>> network. My problem now is that I can't get localboot to work. >>> >>> >> What's the error? >> > > Boot from (N)etwork (D)isk or (Q)uit? D > > Probing pci disk... > [IDE]LBA48 mode > disk-1 78150744k cap: 2f00 > Searching for image... > ................................<abort> > Probing pci disk... > [IDE] > Probing isa disk... > <sleep> > > > Etherboot searches for an ELF header in the first 8K. I don't really > know how can I do this. I had tried to use a ELF image of the kernel > installed in the node but it doesn't work. >
I think you need to run "mkelfimage" on a Linux kernel in order to get it booted and dump that directly on the first partition > >>> I need to know if I can re-burn the BIOS with a newer version of >>> coreboot or something else, so I can use PXE and use GRUB for booting >>> from local. >>> >>> >> What mainboard type is that? Can you post a boot log from serial console? >> > > It's there some way to know the mainboard type without open a node > case? Get permission to do that may take some time. > > if you can run "nvramtool" from a current coreboot tree on that node, it can dump the fields > Here is the boot log: > > Found ELF candiate at offset 0 > Loading Etherboot version: 5.2.4js1 > Dropping non PT_LOAD segment > New segment addr 0x20000 size 0x41e65 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x993a > (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x20000 size 0x41e65 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x993a > Loading Segment: addr: 0x000000007ffc4000 memsz: 0x0000000000010000 > filesz: 0x000000000000993a > Clearing Segment: addr: 0x000000007ffcd93a memsz: 0x00000000000066c6 > Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000030000 memsz: 0x0000000000031e65 > filesz: 0x0000000000000000 > Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000030000 memsz: 0x0000000000031e65 > Jumping to boot code at 0x20000 > ROM segment 0x0000 length 0x0000 reloc 0x00020000 > CPU 2486 Mhz > Etherboot 5.2.4js1 (GPL) http://etherboot.org ELF64 ELF with TFTP SLAM > LACP for [EEPRO100][E1000][3C90X][TG3][IDE] > Relocating _text from: [00029930,00063080) to [7fec68b0,7ff00000) > �Probing pci nic... (D)isk or (Q)uit? > [tg3-5702X]Ethernet addr: 00:50:45:5C:34:1A > Tigon3 [partno(BCM95702A20) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCI:66MHz:32-bit) > Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. > Searching for server (DHCP)... > ...Me: 10.1.255.254, Server: 10.1.1.1, Gateway 10.1.1.1 > Loading 10.1.1.1:vmlinuz.vo ...(ELF)... ................ > Does booting over the network work? -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
