---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:24:25 +0100 >From: Ivan Porro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Oscar-users] Oscar 4: LILO problem? >To: [email protected] > >Hi, > >after several problem (and day spent) installing a little cluster (HP DL380Gr >head, 5 DL140 compute nodes) with Oscar 3.0, I'm trying with Oscar 4.0 which >have fixed the kernel problem with Tigoon3/broadcom driver. > >The system TFTP boot ok, download the image and ask me for reboot. At the >reboot, the system hang to a booting 2.4.20-8smp. (just only one dot at the >end...nothing else :-) > >I did another install, and this time I've pressed CTRL-C to stop "beeping" and >access a console. I've mounted / in /mnt and /boot in /boot (uh :-) >partitions, chroot /mnt /bin/sh and I manually reinstalled lilo (/sbin/lilo) >At the reboot, the system hang to a booting 2.4.20-8smp. Same as above. The >same with other images. > >I've noticed that suggested partition table is strange, only 24 MB for boot, >and 128MB for swap (1Gig RAM): I copied default disks.ide to a custom file. >Rebuiliding image failed...so I modified conf file for node 00 manually. It >look like the original buth with boot = $start + 128, swap = $latest + 2048 >and / = $disksize - 32768 (I've 80gig ide disks) > >Where's the problem? Wrong kernel? wrong LILO conf? wrong fstab? how can I fix >it? > >notice: > >installing Oscar 4 over an Oscar 3, unless with a step_over and rm >-rf /opt/oscar hang at Step 3: installing server packages. I've found a >workaround installing manually some server packages with > > rpm -ivh --force oscar* torque*686* > >and then restarting step 3. Hope this havn't broken my Oscar installation ;-)
Ivan, I encountered similar problems with LILO. With OSCAR 3.0 and in the 4.0-betas I found that I had to complete the installation of LILO by hand. It appeared to install correctly, but the disk was rendered unbootable. When I re-installed OSCAR, I simply deleted the lilo RPM from the tftp directory, and then grub becomes the default. This method "just worked" for me. Jay ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
