RE: [Oscar-users] IDE hard drive bug

[Lombard, David N]

Is this the boot device?  So, is your testimony: “The system boots off the device, but the kernel can’t see it?”  We need to fix that first.   I assume RHL9 (or whatever distro you’re basing off of) can install on the system.  Could you take a look at the kernel messages (via dmesg) on that and see what’s going on with the disk?   Could you install the distro on a client to make sure it’s as well supported as the headnode?   Bottom line, the headnode and clients are sposed to be the same, yet there’s some difference that seems to be interfering.   BTW, if you want to eliminate the disk independence stuff, just put               DISKORDER=   on the boot command line in   /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default   at least, I think that’s the filename...   -- David N. Lombard   My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. From: Palathingal, Paul J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:06 AM To: Lombard, David N; oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] IDE hard drive bug   Thank you David.   All the machines are identical. There are no differences between the head node and the client nodes. However the client node was set up as a dual boot machine earlier (prior use) and I don’t know If that could be an issue.   The BIOS does see the disk.   However I don’t think I see the device on the fly as the kernel is booting up the client.    I shall try to set up a serial console and record it to a file for a log of what is happening.   Many Thanks Paul   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lombard, David N Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 5:10 PM To: Palathingal, Paul J.; oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] IDE hard drive bug   Hi Paul!   Welcome to our world...   Anyway, I just asked Tom about the differences between the head node, where this drive apparently shows up as /dev/hda, and the clients, where it’s not found.   Do you know of any differences?   Does the BIOS see the disk?   Do you see the device fly by as the kernel’s booting on the client?  It may help to set up a serial console and record it to a file via minicom or some such...   -- David N. Lombard   My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Palathingal, Paul J. Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 1:51 PM To: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Oscar-users] IDE hard drive bug   Hello,    My name is Paul Palathingal and i am new to OSCAR. I have been trying to setup a 4 node cluster machine (head node + 3 client nodes). However i ran into the following problem.   On the compute node i use the floppy to boot up and let the system imager (version 3.3.2) to load the kernel. However it does not load the ide hard drive modules. When I do a # ls /dev/hda* it does not show anything. I have an IDE hard drive.   Because of the above during the boot up process by the system imager on the client node I get the following error when running the script for that client node.   "DISK0 not found"   I talked with Thomas Naughton and discussed the bug with him.   Many Thanks Paul