Chris, The change to the switch is irrelevent. Until LILO bootstraps the kernel your network card isn't a factor - so unless your diskless or using PXE to boot over the network, this is an install problem on the local disks.
Check out this link: http://user.fundy.net/cyclist/linux/troubleshoot-LILO.html Here is an excerpt that will point us in the right direction: () No part of LILO has been loaded. LILO either isn't installed or the partition on which its boot sector is located isn't active. L ... The first stage boot loader has been loaded and started, but it can't load the second stage boot loader. The two-digit error codes indicate the type of problem. (See also section "Disk error codes".) This condition usually indicates a media failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section "Disk geometry"). LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL The second stage boot loader has been started, but it can't load the descriptor table from the map file. This is typically caused by a media failure or by a geometry mismatch. LIL? The second stage boot loader has been loaded at an incorrect address. This is typically caused by a subtle geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer. LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map installer. LILO All parts of LILO have been successfully loaded. Let us know what you find - perhaps the installer is having trouble with the map installer. Keep smiling, Greg Message: 2 From: "Chris Oubre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:24:18 -0600 Subject: [Oscar-users] OSCAR cluster dead after simple changes We are currently working on a nasty problem with our OSCAR cluster. I am running OSCAR 2.1 on RedHat 7.2 with a modified kernel to accommodate for my e1000 gigabit cards and mylex hardware RAID. First the problem. We recently received some new nodes for our Beowulf cluster. We brought the cluster down to install them. We installed an additional network card to the switch, and manually moved the position of the old nodes in the rack. When we rebooted up the cluster (master and old nodes), ALL of the old nodes do not boot up. They stop at a screen that says LIL- I have removed the additional card from the switch and tried rebooting everything. No Joy I am able to ping the master node from the switch and vice-versa. If you could give some ideas of where to look? Or do I need to completely reinstall? I'd rather avoid the reinstall because I do not know what cause the crash, and thus would be susceptible to a reoccurrence. **************************************************** Christopher D. Oubre * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * research: http://cmt.rice.edu/~coubre * Web: http://www.angelfire.com/la2/oubre * Hangout: http://pub44.ezboard.com/bsouthterrebonne * Phone:(713)348-3541 Fax: (713)348-4150 * Rice University * Department of Physics, M.S. 61 * 6100 Main St. ^-^ * Houston, Tx 77251-1892, USA (O O) * -= Phlax=- ( v ) * ************************************m*m************* ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Does your code think in ink? You could win a Tablet PC. Get a free Tablet PC hat just for playing. What are you waiting for? http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?micr5043en _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
