Hi Jess: Actually it appears that BUSLOGIC is already enabled as a module in the i386 config:
http://svn.sisuite.org/filedetails.php?repname=systemimager&path=%2Ftrun k%2Fpatches%2Flinux.i386.config&rev=0&sc=0 But BUSLOGIC was not enabled for the x86_64 config... were you testing i386 or x86_64? Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Jess Cannata [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 7:07 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Oscar Users list; Bernard Li > Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] [Oscar-users] Compute Nodes Fail > on Reboot After Image Transfer > > 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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