Hello again everyone ...
here's what I've got.
I started from scratch,
reinstalled RedHat 7.3 on the Master node and all the clients. Our
(hopefully soon-to-be) cluster consists of one single processor box for the
Master node and seven dual-processor boxes for the compute nodes. I'm
running the smp kernel on the Master node to avoid compatibility issues.
There's one important note, however:
I had to compile some
drivers provided by Intel to get support for the on-board network cards.
The drivers were installed in the usual manner with an "insmod" command.
Everything seemed to work fine. The MAC collection worked without error as
did the creation of the autoinstall boot floppy.
When I reboot the nodes
with the boot floppy everything seems to proceed normally. I can watch the
network traffic come over from the Master node and all the files appear to be
installed. However, when I remove the boot floppy and reboot the node, I
get the following messages: (Does anyone know a way to scroll back and
read the lines that have scrolled passed? I've tried the Ctrl-PageUp and
Ctrl-B, but neither seems to work.)
<long list of
unresolved symbol errors regarding mptscsi.o>
ERROR: /bin/insmod exited
abnormally!
mounting /proc
filesystem
Creating root
device
Mounting root
filesystem
kmod: failed to exec
/sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
mount: error 6 mounting
ext2
pivotroot:
pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel
memory: 384k freed
Kernel panic: No init
found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
<the system hangs
here>
What's curious to me
about this is that the same SCSI controller is in each of the machines, however
the problem seems to be that the drivers for the SCSI controller are never
loaded upon reboot after network installation.
Should I create my
network install image on one of the client nodes and port this to the Master
node? If so, what set of RPMs do I need to include in my client
installation? Also, has anyone done this before?
Thanks for all of your
help.
Tony
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