Bernard, Things are going well. I must admit that I've been away from OSCAR for a long time and I really like what I see in the new version. You guys have been doing a great job. In fact, here at Georgetown we are starting up a cluster administration class and OSCAR will be one of the main toolkits that we teach. The first class will be in at the end of August.
I did check the log file and I only saw two errors in Step 4, Build OSCAR Client Image: Added Disk Table for riley based on /opt/oscar/oscarsamples/ide.disk Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Server.pm line 1246. Ran mkautoinstallscript --> Step 4: Completed successfully Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Trace.pm line 181. You can see the entire log file at http://cs.arc.georgetown.edu/~jess/misc/oscarinstall.log If you need any more clues, let me know. Thanks for your help. I'll check out the VMWare OSCAR head node appliance. Jess P.S. SELinux is disabled. Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Jess: > > How's it going! > > I don't think this is an issue specifically to do with VMware as this > usually happens when SystemConfigurator failed to do its job. You might > want to post the log message during the imaging process at the end when > SystemConfigurator runs so that we can figure out what went wrong. > > On the other hand we actually have a VMware headnode appliance for OSCAR > that has newer code from trunk and may work better for you (and I > believe users have tried it and it works perfectly fine). > > You can learn more about it here: > > http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/news.oscar-appliance > > Note that this is development code and is somewhat outdated now (it was > based off r4853 and we're now at r5135). > > Please keep us posted with your experiences! > > Thanks, > > Bernard > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jess >> Cannata >> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 13:46 >> To: [email protected]; [email protected] >> Subject: [Oscar-users] Compute Nodes Fail on Reboot After Image Transfer >> >> I am installing Oscar 4.2 on RedHat EL AS 4.0 base (no updates) under >> VMWare Workstation 5.5.1 build-19175 on Windows XP. All of the nodes >> (master and slaves) use IDE disks. >> >> I have no problems until after I try and boot the newly imaged slave >> nodes. I unselected pfilter like it suggests in the manual, but when >> I try and boot the slave nodes from hard disk, I get two errors. >> First, grub gives the error: >> >> root (hd0,0) >> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.ELsmp ro root=/dev/hda6 >> {Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x154492c] >> initrd >> >> Error 1: Filename must be either an absolute pathname or blocklist >> >> I noticed that the initrd line was missing the initrd file. So when I >> add >> >> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.ELsmp.img >> >> Linux will continue to boot until I get the second error: >> >> Mounted /proc filesystem >> Mounting sysfs >> Creating /dev >> Starting udev >> Creating root device >> Mounting root filesystem >> mount: missing mount point >> mount: error 2 mounting none >> Switching to new root >> switchroot: mount failed: 22 >> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! >> >> It seems that Oscar transfered the files correctly since I can boot >> to the slave nodes with a rescue CD and see all of the partitions and >> files on the disk. Have you seen this problem with VMWare? I'm hoping >> to try this install on real machines, but I really need for it to >> work in VMWare. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Jess Cannata >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------- >> ----------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, >> security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your >> job easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache >> Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&; >> dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> Oscar-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-user >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
