If you have a CD (or a floppy drive, don't remember which is in 4.1) on the nodes you can avoid the problem by making an OSCAR boot disk and using that instead of setting the BIOS to network boot.
There is also a trick where you can remove the boot sector of the node you want to reimage and reboot it. The network booting is usually after the local disk in the boot order so it fails to boot off the hard disk and then network boots... this trick is detailed here: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/faq.installation.re-image-nodes This totally fails to answer your question, but I hope might meet your immediate needs. On 2/19/07, hiba salma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello... > i have a Linux Cluster of 64-nodes with > OSCAR version: 4.1 > Linux Distro: Red hat 9 > There is a problem which i'm trying to solve for almost a week but still no > results. > When i boot a client from the network, after finishing successful > installation from the network, > it reboots. After the reboot it tries to boot from the Local Hard drive > cuz i changed the /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf and set > NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = LOCAL. > The netbootmond also restart after the item changed. > But it hangs there! n do nothing after that i.e after the message Booting > from Local Hard drive > I dun understand why this happens. > here is the systemimager configuration file in which i made changes > # > # "SystemImager" > # > # Copyright (C) 2002 Bald Guy Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > # > # $Id: systemimager.conf,v 1.10 2002/10/26 05:19:34 brianfinley Exp $ > # > ################################################################################ > # > # The directory where images are stored by default. > # > DEFAULT_IMAGE_DIR = /var/lib/systemimager/images > ################################################################################ > # > # The directory where files needed by autoinstall clients are stored. > # > AUTOINSTALL_SCRIPT_DIR = /var/lib/systemimager/scripts > ################################################################################ > # > # The directory which contains the architecture specific directories where > # files needed by autoinstall clients are stored. > # > AUTOINSTALL_BOOT_DIR = /usr/share/systemimager/boot > ################################################################################ > # > # SystemImager's rsyncd.conf file. > # > RSYNCD_CONF = /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf > ################################################################################ > # > # The path to the directory where rsync stub files are stored. > # > RSYNC_STUB_DIR = /etc/systemimager/rsync_stubs > ################################################################################ > # > # Directory where tftp and net-boot files are stored > # > TFTP_DIR = /tftpboot > ################################################################################ > # > # This setting affects netbootmond. If set to LOCAL, then after successful > # completion of an install, a client's net boot configuration is modified to > # ensure future boots will happen from the client's local disk. > # NET_BOOT_DEFAULT can be set to local or net. Be sure to restart > # netbootmond after changing this setting (/etc/init.d/netbootmond restart). > # > NET_BOOT_DEFAULT = LOCAL > > i followed some instructions also from this site > www.wiki.sisuite.org/networkboot > But all invain. > Can any one suggest me some solutions to this problem? > PS: i've posted this problem on Sisuite users mailing lists,but m not > getting any quick response from there so i thought if any one from here can > help me. > -Hiba > > > > > > ________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger Download today > it's FREE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
