Sent: Fri 13/05/2005 4:32 PM
To: Bernard Li; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] The problem about floppy boot
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:
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> > [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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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