These are Dell PowerEdge 1750s... running Oscar 2.3.1+ and Mandrake 9.2. So there are at least 2 major differences, and one maybe-not-so-big difference.
The digital camera idea might not be too wacky at all ... or a video camera. :-) Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frank Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jason Hlady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:40 PM Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Imaging successful but image doesn't work > Yeah, and unfortunately there is no easy way to capture the kernel error > messages - maybe a digital camera might help ;-) > > It's weird though since I can image our IBM x330's fine with Oscar 3.0 > and RH 9.0... so it may not really be SIS... unless you guys have the > newer models (our highest-end x330 are p3-1.6GHz...) > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > Frank Crawford wrote: > > > Jason, Bernard, > > One other issue that may be coming in is that SIS builds it's own > > initrd.img file on the nodes and may not be including all the required > > SCSI modules during booting. > > > > The problem is almost certainly a kernel issue, and as such you will > > need to watch closely during the boot for errors, etc. It probably will > > give some message about failing to find or load some SCSI module, but > > with out seeing the kernel messages, it is pretty hard to diagnose. > > > > Frank > > > > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:37, Bernard Li wrote: > > > >>Hey Jason: > >> > >>Jason Hlady wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I haven't tried installing Man 9.2 on the cluster nodes, only on the > >>>head node (which is almost identical to the cluster nodes.) Still, it's > >>>probably worth doing, and I'll try that first thing tomorrow morning. > >> > >>If they are the same hardware then that probably won't make much of a > >>difference. > >> > >> > >>>My colleague indicates that he's seen the "unable to mount root fs, > >>>kernel panic" message before when trying to install Mandrake on IBM > >>>x330/335s, and that he worked around it by building a different kernel. > >>> Perhaps it's a kernel problem and not a configuration one. Does OSCAR > >>>simply use the kernel which the head node uses? If so, and if the > >>>kernel distributed with Man 9.2 works on both the head and the cluster > >>>nodes, then at least it should be clear that it's not a kernel > >>>problem... I think. :) > >> > >>I am not too sure about kernel stuff but I think SIS uses its own kernel > >>when building images (not related to the kernel on the headnode). You > >>might want to look into the OSCAR package kernel-switcher to see if that > >>gives you any insight. I would also recommend going through the > >>mailing-list archives - I have seen 'similar' questions asked in the > >>past, so you might actually be able to get something out of it. > >> > >> > >>>I'll have to do a little more work on this. Any more suggestions from > >>>anyone else would be appreciated. I'm not completely against RH9.0, but > >>>the fact that it's no longer supported by RedHat anymore, coupled with > >>>the fact that we're a Mandrake shop around here and have more expertise > >>>in Mandrake, makes me want to try and get it working with Mandrake. Of > >>>course, I could always try RH using one of the cluster nodes as a head > >>>node and go from there. > >> > >>I think it'd be cool if after this exercise you emerge and actually got > >>it working under Mandrake 9.2 and we can all learn from this (and > >>improve our current support). > >> > >>But if it is any incentive, we are also using the IBM x330's and we have > >>no issues with RH 9.0 :-) > >> > >>Good luck! > >> > >>Cheers, > >> > >>Bernard > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------- > >>This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > >>Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > >>help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > >>YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Oscar-users mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
