[Oscar-users] Sata Disks and program parted

[Carlos Jorge Gonçalves]

Hi,   I’m setting up a cluster using OSCAR (version 4.0).   Everything went fine and I succeeded in the installation of one cluster with 3 nodes (the main node where OSCAR is installed, and 2 client nodes).   The problems come up when I need to replace one of the nodes by another computer.   This new computer come up with a network card from Broadcom (model bcm57xxx 1/10/1000 Mbit/s).   The original files to support the PXEBOOT didn’t recognized this network card, so I download the drivers, download a new version of systemimager (version 3.6.2 that come up with kernel 2.6.12.2), and I also have downloaded and installed the Linux kernel 2.6.12.2.   I booted using kernel 2.6.12.2, compiled the network card drivers, and I copied the drivers (bcm5700.ko) into the directory initrd_source/my_modules (of systemimager).   Then I have compiled the new (first changed the FLAVOR file) kernel and initrd.img files, and then copied then to the /tftpboot/ directory and create a file with the MAC address of my network card (located in the directory /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/).   The new computer has SATA disks that where not compatible with the previous image that I had built for IDE disk.   So I create a new image (the new systemimager files had rename the mkautoinstallscript to si_mkautoinstallscript and mkrsyncd_conf to si_mkrsyncd_conf so I created symbolic links from si_mkautoinstallscript to mkautoinstallscript and from si_mkrsyncd_conf to mkrsyncd_conf)   Next I boot the new client, the client gets the correct files (kernel, initrd.img and boel_binaries.tar.gz) and the booting process continues.   Then, when the partitions are being created I get the following message for each of the partitions:   “The program parted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SC_IO”   The partitions are created and the process continues to end and the machine is ready to boot.   I reboot the machine but the boot from disk fails and the client node starts to download the image again.   I’m using: OSCAR version 4.2 The server is running Linux Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.12.2 The hardware is a i686     I really appreciate help because I don’t known any more what I should do L   Thanks in advanced,   Carlos Gonçalves