Dear helpful mailing list, I'm about to install OSCAR 5.0 on a small cluster of Red Hat EL 4 workstation computers. They have AMD64 cpu's. The problem I ran into is the following:
I installed RHEL 4 (workstation) on the head node. The installation forced me to choose the default settings for the disk partitioning, since a manual attempt to do the partitioning led to a non working system. I simply got a grub> command line and manually loading the kernel from that point on only led a later kernel panic... Instead of waisting my time with forcing the installation to accept my partition scheme I simply accepted the default settings. The default and running Red Hat system comes along with two partitions and a logical volume inside the second one: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 10011 80308935 8e Linux LVM The fstab looks like this: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 I successfully installed the oscar server and pushed the images with the oscarsamples/scsi.disk partition setup to the nodes, but they do not boot (getting a grub> command line). I tried other .disk files with the same result. The question is simple: Which files do I have to edit in order to get my partition/fstab setup working on the nodes? From a similar thread http://www.mail-archive.com/oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05687.html I know that OSCAR 5.0 supports LVM and that there is hope. I also have vgcreate and lvcreate installed on the head node. Do I need to create my own .disk file? Is this sufficient? Thanks for your attention and help! Best regards, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
