Mike: I will post my problem to that forum.
Thanks, Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Chase-Salerno Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 3:40 PM To: Timothy N. Tobey Cc: Kyndig Renshai; Oscar-users List Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Client Image Install Failure I use a P2 all the time for OSCAR testing, so the statement "OSCAR can't generate a proper image on a Pentium II" isn't accurate. Your not even getting to the point of booting the image when your install is failing. It may be that your particular machine has some specific thing that is causing a problem with the kernel used by SIS. I'm not sure what that would be, but you may get some better exposure asking this question on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Mike On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 15:14, Timothy N. Tobey wrote: > Ren: > > So If I am understanding what you are saying OSCAR can't generate a proper > image on a Pentium II. > > Here are a couple Ideas I have for a solution: > > 1) Make a Pentium 1 my server. Does a Pentium create a proper image that > will work on Pentium II client nodes? This of course would not be my first > choice. > > > 2) Create an image on a borrowed Pentium III or better. Then copy the image > over to my Pentium II server. I don't know if the system images are > transferable from one server to the next. > > > As you can see I am putting together a poor man's cluster. :) > > If I can't find a solution here I probably will move on to another solution. > Thanks for the advice in this area! > > Cheers, > > Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Kyndig Renshai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:04 PM > To: Timothy N. Tobey > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Client Image Install Failure > > > Tim, > > At the time I did this -about a year ago- it was RH 7.1. If you check > back in the emails to the group - you'd probably see the list of things that > I did. (The group suggested changing the kernel from smp to uni-processor, > and also to get the lowest common denominator processor type kernel > available at the time (not the 586) - did that - changed nothing). (Like > you I knew that the HD had enough space to hold the image. I also created > the image on a different processor type. so while it worked on similar > machines (266Mhz) it would not work on my 166Mhz)) I think that the > problem might be with the way SysImager works ... But don't quote me on that > ... > > ... I'm vague on this at the time - but I'm sure that I sent a detailed > list of things I did to the Oscar-user List back about at the beginning of > the year or close to the end of May when someone else with a similar problem > spoke about it. > > The reply if I recall was Oscar-User developers are were working on > HighEnd machines and did not have PII available to them to test what I was > saying - it was more like up to someone who's using those to try and figure > out the problem... > > There is an alternative if you're a Linux savvy. My original attempt at > clustering was building the beowulf cluster manually- WHICH surprisingly > worked. (the how-to files can be found at beowulfunderground.org or some > resource named like that.) > > Another alternative which I found that was equally fun was using Condor. > (university of wisc) I tested it on Win machines and it worked. I then > discovered NAMD/VDM (a biosimulation from NIH) - which had used a service on > Win machines (CharmRun) to connect all win machines and was able to run this > simulation. While other users were working on them (but that's due to load > balancing) (I won't attempt that with 200Mhz machines). > > What Oscar offers is automation. It adds best practices as is touted, it > adds Pbs/maui scheduler etc - All of which I think you should be able to > install once you manually create your cluster. > > A completely different alternative is the use of process migration kernels > like openmosix (?) (I did not have the time to try this). > > Ren > > "Timothy N. Tobey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ren: > > > > When you mention kernel do you mean my Redhat 7.2 kernel? If so, would > upgrading to 7.3 potentially fix this problem or has this been tried with > your reference to the kernel changes. > > > > Tim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kyndig Renshai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 1:49 PM > To: Timothy N. Tobey > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Client Image Install Failure > > > > So far no one has come up with a fix for this problem. For some > reason - PII don't seem to appreciate the status their are being elevated to > :). I ran into a similar problem way back when - discussed it online here > also - but to date no one has resolved why even with kernel changes - we > cannot get PII to install a correct image on disk. (its kernel related I'm > sure). Well best of luck ... If you find a way to get around this - let me > know. > > Thanks In Advance (TIA) - > > Ren > > "Timothy N. Tobey" wrote: > > Dear Oscar Users: > > Another mystery to be solved! > > I am using: Redhat 7.2, Oscar 1.4 > > The server and clients are Pentium IIs > > I am using a boot disk to copy the image over to my clients. The clients > cannot net boot. > > > I have gone through all the steps successfully up to copying the image > to > the clients properly > > The clients contact the server and begin downloading all of the files. > > It runs for a while and stops at file or location: > var/spool/pbs/mom_priv > > Then the client says: > > > > wrote 399356 bytes read 458480004 599450.50 bytes/sec > >> total size is 456803480 speedup is 1.00 > >> Illegal instruction > > I got the same error on two different clients so I do not believe the > client > is creating this problem. > > I am at a complete loss even where I should start to solve this problem. > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Tim > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more > faith.yahoo.com > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > -- > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos, & more > faith.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
