Hi there,
I've spent some time trying to get familiar with my problem before posting here.
I noticed that there are a few "System imager problems" posts already, but when I was trying to look at the forum, I got some sort of SQL error which resulted in Post not found. Hence, we must start from the beginning. :-(
I'm using the Mandrake 9.2 iso image distributed by Sherbrooke to image my cluster of 32 dual-processor Dell PowerEdge 1750s (2.4 GHz Xeons.) Mandrake 9.0 is not happy on this hardware because the 1U flatpanel keyboard/mouse/monitor tray does not like XFree86 4.2; we spent quite a while trying to get it to run on the monitor, and eventually ended up upgrading it to 4.3, but this upgraded glibc among other things, and so was a bit ugly, and I didn't really trust it.
Installing from the Man 9.2 iso image went well. I went through the standard OSCAR install using the wizard, and got to the imaging of the nodes. After successfully building an image, I moved on to sending that image out to the nodes. However, after associating the nodes with MAC addresses, I needed to netboot the nodes so that they could have their images blasted out to them.
The problem: when I go to install the nodes, the client (I presume this is the systeminstaller client) boots, but then times out on DHCPDISCOVER, checking only loopback and not finding eth0 or eth1. dhclient starts, and you get
Listening on LPF/lo/<null> Sending on LPF/lo/<null> Sending on Socket/Fallback/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port .. DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ... DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ... DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ... DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ... No DHCPOFFERS received.
The nodes netboot (using PXE) fine, as far as I can tell. To test whether it was a PXE problem, I also made the boot floppy, and got the same symptom. Ok, this sorta sounds like the NIC isn't being recognized by the SIS kernel. Mandrake 9.2 autodetects the Gb NICs in this beast to use "bcm5700" driver.
I installed the source RPM for systeminstaller, and spent some time mucking around trying to add patches and the like, and build a new SIS kernel, but I ran into a bunch of problems. I thought I'd appeal to a knowledge base first before trying to reinvent the wheel.
Thanks,
Jason
-------------- Jason Hlady, B. Sc., M. Sc. (Chem), Adv. Cert. (Comp. Sci.) Programmer/Analyst (Bioinformatics Specialist) U of Saskatchewan, Bioinformatics Research Laboratory (BIRL) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (306) 966-2075
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