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This is driving me crazy. I sent the
last few hours rebuilding the head node. As always the OSCAR install is flawless…
I run into problems when my nodes try and TFTP boot from the /tftpboot
directory because it doesn’t find any pxe files. Is OSCAR supposed
to add those into the /tftpboot folder? Does it look into the
/tftpboot/rpm directory for them? If it does, they aren’t there
either because I’ve looked. I can’t figure out why it worked
fine on my first fedora install, but now after I’ve formatted (twice) and
reinstalled OSCAR the files are not there for them to boot. My nodes all
get the correct IP address that dhcp is sending out. I’ve also
verified with the ‘rpm –qa | more tftp’ that I’m only
running the OSCAR version of tftp. Where should I look now? Thanks for
the support! Mike From: Johnston Michael
J Contr AFRL/DES I should have added these in the last
email. Here are the errors I’m getting on the node as it connects
into the TFTP server. PXE-T01: File Not Found PXE-E3B: TFTP Error – File Not Found PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent I thought it might be file permissions so
I changed the RPM directory and everything in it to 755. That
didn’t work. L I can’t figure out what I missed. One thing that
I thought was strange was that when I installed OSCAR before (before I wiped out
the OS and started fresh) is that I didn’t have to create the
“tftpboot” directory. It was already there and all I had to
do was create the “rpm” directory under it and my nodes would boot
from it fine. Please excuse my ignorance. Mike From: Johnston Michael
J Contr AFRL/DES No, I did copy all the RPM’s into
the /tftpboot/rpm directory, but isn’t there supposed to be a few
configuration files in the /tftpboot directory as well? I forgot the
names of them but it was something like pxeboot.cfg and some other
directories. I noticed them on the system before and thought that the
OSCAR install put them there, but I guess it didn’t. Did I do
something wrong? Thanks again! From: Bernard Li
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Johnston: Did you forget to copy the RPMs from each CD to
/tftpboot/rpm? I'm confused. Cheers, Bernard From: Johnston Michael
J Contr AFRL/DES [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, more problems that I didn't have
before. Before I installed OSCAR on my clean OS I had to creat the
directory 'tftpboot' and 'rpm' under that to put all the RPM files. Now
for some reason I'm at the point to push the image out and it says there isn't
any files. When I look in the tftpboot directory I only see my 'rpm'
directory that I created before. I don't see the files that should be
there. Did I skip something? I've been going through the steps and
each has been successful to this point. Thanks for the support. J Mike From: Bernard Li
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Johnston: Others correct me if I'm wrong, but there shouldn't be any
issues by creating your image with updated RPMs, it's just that we do not
recommend you update your headnode prior to installing OSCAR. You can chroot to your image and run updates on it (after it
is built), for instance: chroot /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage Cheers, Bernard From: Johnston
Michael J Contr AFRL/DES [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for replying Bernard. I
kind of figured that I might have installed the updates too soon so I'm now in
the process of reinstalling the OS again. This time I'm going to install
OSCAR first thing. I really hope it works this time. How would you recommend I do updates after
it's done? I mean after I get the image pushed out to all the nodes and
its working. Setting up a yum repository or something like that? Is
there a way to add all the updated RPM's into the image before you push it
out? Thanks again for your help! Mike From: Bernard Li
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Johnston: Can you tell us the output of: rpm -qa | grep tftp on your headnode? Typically, we recommend you install OSCAR on a freshly
installed Linux and only install updates after OSCAR has been successfully
installed - not sure if this is the case, though. Cheers, Bernard From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES First off, I want to thank all you gurus who have had your
hand in this. This is an awesome management tool and I'm excited to get
it going... I've been testing OSCAR on a 33 node cluster running RedHat
9.0. When I set up the server it all went very well and I could build an
image and reboot my nodes and have the TFTP boot pick it up and push out the
image and they would come up great. So after this I decided to use OSCAR
to help upgraded my planned migration to Fedora C2. That's where I'm
running into problems. I've rebuilt my head node to Fedora 2, updated all the RPM
patches and then installed OSCAR. The nodes all see the TFTP server and
start to load the OS. The problem now is that no node will finish loading
its image. They all die at different spots in the load and I see errors
like "rsync: read error: connection reset by peer" and then it dumps
out to the "systemimager.org/support" message. I thought it might be my gigabit switch being overloaded, so
I connected the head node directly to a slave with a cross-over cable and
pushed it out again. I still have the same problem. It crashes
every time. It looks like it has something to do with 'rsync.' Is
there anything else I can try? Thanks for you support. Mike |
[Oscar-users] Client won't finish installing image
Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:32:34 -0800
- [Oscar-users] Client won't finish instal... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Bernard Li
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Bernard Li
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Bernard Li
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Bernard Li
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Bernard Li
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Lombard, David N
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Bernard Li
- RE: [Oscar-users] Client won't fini... Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES
- Re: [Oscar-users] Client won't ... Michael Edwards
