Hi Brad: It looks like the host "janus.androticus" resolves to 2 different IP addresses?
Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Aisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:45 > To: oscar devel > Cc: Bernard Li > Subject: Re: can't load image anymore after pxe boot > > Ok, I found the issue, and it gets back to the problem I was > having with hosts, whereby the cluster network line was missing. > > Here is an outline of my hosts (// indicate comments i've > added below, not in file) > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.1.7 titus.androticus titus > //rest of local computers > 192.168.1.13 janus.androticus janus // my headnode on > the local network > > # These entries are managed by SIS, please don't modify them. > 172.16.0.2 node02.androticus node02 > // rest of nodes > > There is a key line missing, that had been in the original > file at some time, which is the headnode line on the cluster > network, along with additional aliases (some which I now forget) > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 172.16.0.1 janus.androticus janus oscar_server > nfs_oscar pbs_oscar // THIS LINE WAS MISSING!!!! > 192.168.1.7 titus.androticus titus > //etc > > If that cluster network line goes missing, evil things > happen!!!!!! I think the KDE network tool may screw that up > (not 100% sure though.) > > > > Brad Aisabaisa at brad-aisa dot com > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; oscar devel > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:41:21 PM > Subject: RE: can't load image anymore after pxe boot > > Hi Brad: > > What does "rpm -qa | grep tftp" show? And can you check to > see if it is > working properly? > > Not sure about tftp logs, they might be in /var/log/messages. > And I do > not think pfilter will affect tftp, though you mentioned that you have > already disabled it. > > You could probably try to use etherboot to test your tftp: > > http://rom-o-matic.net/5.4.2/ > > Just create a boot floopy ROM disk for your network card and see if it > goes. > > If it does, and plain network booting doesn't work, then there's > something wrong with your nic... > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > P.S. In regards to swapping nic cards, as long as OSCAR now > has the MAC > address of your _new_ nic, then it should work fine. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brad Aisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:26 > > To: oscar devel > > Cc: Bernard Li > > Subject: RE: can't load image anymore after pxe boot > > > > Yikes! Could it relate to having changed my nic card? The > > previous one was flaky, and I swapped it out for a new one of > > the same model. That actually caused a number of issues (as I > > had mentioned in a previous post) which I thought I'd finally > > worked through. I don't have a third, and am loathe to put that > > first one back in, because it seemed to flake out after awhile, > > and I also worry about all the same network issues. > > > > Are there any other possible reasons this could be happening? > > > > Couldn't it be related to the tftp server??? It is my > > understanding that it is a different process for the client to > > get the pxe boot image vs. then fetching the actual kernel via > > tftp. Is there a utility I could try from a node to test the > > tftp? Is there a config file or log file for that? > > > > Could this be possibly related to turning off pfilter??? > > > > Thanks so much for any help! Only 2 more nodes to go! > > > > --- Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It is quite possible that this is a hardware issue - do you > > > have another > > > nic you could try? > > > > > > Everything else looks fine from here. > > > > > > > > Brad Aisa > > baisa at brad-aisa dot com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
