You shouldn't need to do anything from the command line after you get the wizard started. To network boot the compute nodes when your bios doesn't support PXE boot, you would just boot using the floppy you can make using the oscar wizard under the "setup networking" step. You do need to enter the MAC adress of the client node's network card in the setup networking screen.
All the documentation you should need to install the cluster is in the install.pdf file in the /opt/oscar/doc directory or on the webpage at http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/. On 8/7/05, Ram Kumar DANGETI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > As my PC bios does not support I tried to use etherboot, but I have > a kernel panic message after I boot my client and the message is as follows: > .............. > pivot_root: No such file or directory > /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console : No such file. > kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > The following are some of the steps I followed in this process and > could someone please tell me the correct procedure: > 1. I created a Etherboot image for my rtl networkcard (using > http://rom-o-matic.net/5.4.0/ for simplicity) and I could boot my client > with the boot floppy created from this image. At this point DHCP is already > set by OSCAR, but the tftp server is not ready. > 2. My client image is located in the following : > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage$ > ls > bin dev home initrd.img media opt root srv tmp var > boot etc initrd lib mnt proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz > 3. I created the boot image using > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage$ > mkelf-linux --output=/tftpboot/pxelinux.0 boot/vmlinuz boot/initrd.map > 4. I made necessary changes in the /etc/exports and restarted nfsd. > 5. I booted the client and the IP address was received from the DHCP > server, but the boot process halted with the above message: > The docs Iam that Iam reading are basically for diskless clients > and so Iam bit unsure about the steps that I need to follow for network > installing my clients built by OSCAR. So could you please tell me the > correct procedure. > Thankyou and hope to hear from you regarding this.. > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
