Hi Everybody We're trying to install redhat-el-4.2 using oscar-4.2 on Sun X4100 servers. These servers have a scsi controller that needs drivers, so naturally, the node install stage fails. Even though the systemimager version in oscar4.2 is 3.5.3, the instructions in this document: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/SystemImager still work - We are able to run the si_prepareclient command and new kernel and initrd files are generated in /etc/systemimager/boot. The initrd file contains indeed the right modules. We copied the files to /tftpboot and enlargened the ramdisk_size. However the node still doesn't boot. The console gets stuck so I'm not sure what happens, but it seems that the initrd wasn't mounted perfectly - there are messages about missing things (everything, actually) in the /proc.
The original initrd.img file is a ROMfs file, and the new file is an EXT2fs file. I've tried generating a ROM image of this file but that didn't even mount in the node boot. I think that the version of mkcramfs that comes with RH4 is too new. I've tried downloading the nightly build (5.1blahblahblah) but that didn't install. I've followed the instructions in the README file, but upon installation there were a few missing dependencies (elementtree and twisted) even though they were in the /tftpboot/oscar/rhel4... directory. What can I do? Is there a version of oscar-4.2 with a newer version of systemimager? Do you know the correct way to create a ROMfs initrd.img file? Thanks a lot! ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
