I tried the ide.disk, the scsi.ia64.disk, and the scsi.disk files. I then considered putting together a customized .disk for the somewhat special demands of the default Red Hat installation.
I haven't tried uyok yet, but that's gonna be my next approach. Thank's for the very quick reply! Best regards, Sebastian Am Freitag, den 07.03.2008, 07:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Edwards: > Have you tried one of the non-lvm .dsk files to make sure its not a > driver problem? > > Also, have you tried the uyok option? > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:15 AM, sebastian schutte > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
