Hi, Bernard Thanks for you quick reply.
I put the floppy driver from working "node 1" to "node 4" which couldn't boot, but the node 4 still couldn't boot from floppy. I will try the mkautoinstallcd next week. Hope cdrom boot will work. Thanks Li > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 5:36 PM > To: Li Li; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] The problem about floppy boot > > > Have you tried swapping a known working floppy disk drive (from one of > the 7 nodes you were able to image) with one of the nodes that couldn't > boot? > > It sounds to me the problem is with the floppy disk drive (even the new > one you tried). If the floppy worked on one system, it should work on > all systems. > > mkautoinstallcd should be pretty easy to use. I think initially it asks > for what 'flavour' (so just answer 'standard') and output is something > like 'sis_boot.iso' (name of the ISO file). Then you can burn the ISO > on a CD and you're done. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Li Li > > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 15:38 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Oscar-users] The problem about floppy boot > > > > Hi. > > > > The hard drive on our master node was dead last week. So we > > try to reinstall the Oscar again. At step 6(setup > > networking), I can successfully boot 7 nodes by using floppy > > boot(PXE boot is not working), but the other 8 nodes can't > > boot from the same boot floppy. The error message is "boot > > failed" or "it is not a boot disk". I tried to create nearly > > 10 boot disk, but all failed. Then I think it maybe the > > floppy drive problem, so I tried a new floppy drive for one > > node, but got the same result. > > > > I don't know what is the other options for me to boot and > > install the clients. Most of the clients still have red hat > > 7.3 on it. I don't have the experience about SIS package. The > > options I can think about are > > > > 1) create a bootable cd and use cdrom to boot the client, but > > it will be tedious, because we need to install cdrom to each > > node. And how to use mkautoinstallcd? this command asks for > > some output file. > > > > 2) boot from the existing Red hat 7.3, then try to load the > > image from master. > > > > Thanks in advance for the helps. > > > > Li > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > > Want to be the first software developer in space? > > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Oscar-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
