RESOLVED! I found the problem thanks to VMWare having a record movie function (and for Bernard's suggestion that I review the client install). During the client install the initrd cannot be created because there is no BusLogic module in the kernel, which is VMWare's default SCSI option. I didn't think that this would matter since I wasn't using a SCSI hard disk or CD-ROM. It does matter. I fixed this by selecting LSI Logic for the SCSI controller when I created the slave virtual machines and the OSCAR client installed just fine. Thanks for all of your help.
Jess Here are the error messages: Editing files for actual disk configuration... /dev/hda -> /dev/hda /etc/fstab /etc/raidtab /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf mount /dev /a/dev -o bind || shellout No module BusLogic found for kernel 2.6.9-5.ELsmp, aborting. WARNING: RH style ramdisk generation failed. at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Initrd.pm line 96 Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 467. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 468. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 472. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 467. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 468. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 472. Jess Cannata wrote: > Yes, I'm using IDE disks for this very reason. I am going to log the > building of the nodes tomorrow (like Bernard suggested) to see if I > can see an error. I'll let the list know how it goes. Thanks for your > help. > > Jess > > Erich Focht wrote: >> Jess, >> >> when you creted your virtual slave node, what type of harddisk did >> you assign >> to it? The SCSI types are more difficult to handle than the IDE. I'd >> recommend >> you to try a virtual IDE harddisk for the start. >> >> Regards, >> Erich >> >> On Friday 14 July 2006 22:58, 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-users >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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