The modprobe.conf file which FC5 made for your nodes is probably wrong, it isn't loading the storage drivers correctly and so the kernel is crashing when it tries to reference them. If possible, boot the node of the fc5 install disk and go into "rescue mode". If that succeeds you just need to make a copy of the modprobe.conf file it uses and put that in
/var/lib/systemimager/overrides/etc/modprobe.conf SIS will use that file instead of its automatically generated version. If you know what modules it needs to load, you can of course just make it by hand. :) On 3/23/07, Baldassi Maurizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to set up a small cluster using OSCAR version 5.0 on Linux > Fedora Core 5 using i386 H/W architecture (I have got five - rather aged > and almost identical - NEC servers featuring a Pentium III running at > 866 MHz, with a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller). > > I installed Fedora Core 5 on a server, then I downloaded OSCAR 5.0 files > and I started the installation of the head node. > > Everything worked fine up to (and including) step 6. I went into > troubles when I started imaging of clients; the first problem I had was > the incorrect naming of partitions in the main client-autoinstall script > oscarimage.master. The script correctly created the partitions using the > device name /dev/rd/c0d0 and then tried to refer to them (for mke2fs > etc.) as /dev/rd/c0d01, /dev/rd/c0d05 and so on. With these names mke2fs > failed regularly, so, after some investigations, I found that the real > names of the partitions where /dev/rd/c0d0p1, /dev/rd/c0d0p5 etc. (there > where an extra 'p' between the device name and the partition number). I > then edited the script (which is included in the attached file together > with the logs) in order to reflect the correct partition naming. > > After these modifications, the script was able to correctly format > partitions, but I got further errors - related to attempts of string > concatenations using uninitialized values - when the script called the > function 'run_post_install_scripts'. I then edited again the script, > making further modifications related to the incorrect naming of the > partitions (in the section where the string '/dev/hda' is modified in > the files /etc/fstab etc. - you'll find comments I made by searching for > the string 'baldax'). For the same reason, I tried to edit the file > systemconfig.conf too. > > After that, I rebooted the client again, and this time only two errors > where left (you'll see them in the lines with a '** ==>' prepended in > the file si_monitor.log included in the attachment), both two related to > concatenating uninitialized values. > > Anyway I saw the GRUB splash and the menu, and after few seconds the > system started to boot; but after about two or three screens of > lightning-fast system messages (see attached file LastBootLogLines.txt), > it ended up with a kernel panic. > > I tried to search through the lists for a similar problem, but I had no > results. > > Thanks for your kind attention > > Best regards > > Maurizio Baldassi > Settore Innovazione Tecnologica > ARPA FVG - Direzione Centrale > tel.: 0432922691 - 3404979509 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
