That's pretty scary, Allan! I was just about to write you directly in lieu of nothing from the list, since you helped me last and clearly did get this working on fc9. Sorry to hear that you're having exactly the same issues under fc10 that I'm having under fc9. That I'm having them under fc9 might be unexpected (I've been very careful not to update any packages, and the timestamps on the online repos for the Fedora things not on the DVD also would indicate that these, too, are the original versions).
In my case (and it seems, in yours), after a node fails to finish setting up a bootloader, almost everything is there in boot/grub (mounted on /a) except a grub.conf file. The image fail leaves you at a shell; it is plausible that I could manually complete the process for each node by creating a grub.conf, (re?)writing an MBR and fixing up fstab. ANYBODY? On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Allan Menezes wrote: > Hi Chris, > I had the same problem with setting up fc10 beta x86_64 after i svnned > the code from the branch-5.1 to my head node. > I managed to get the gui going after a lot of trouble and client oscarimage > and clients network etc but ran into the same problem you > are experiencing when imaging a node same DEFAULTBOOT error! I did not > investigate it as i did not have the time and i did post it on the user not > developer list but nobody replied. > I think it is the new systemimager or system configurator? > It fails the client install at the last moment and when i mount /a and see > /boot all the kernel files are there but trying to reboot the machine just > hangs. > I guess there are some changes made to systemimager which is responsible for > installing the client nodes after i had successfully twice installed fc9 > x86_64 when it was released some time ago. > SOMEBODY OUT THERE PLEASE HELP! > Cheers this should get their attention. > Allan Menezes > Chris Stevenson wrote: > >> I thought I'd ask people on the list if they've seen this, because >> it's frustrating me. >> >> Still trying to finish setting up OSCAR 5.1rc1 on a cluster of intel >> quad-cores, master running Fedora 9. I was away for a bit; just getting >> back to this. >> >> I have the installation process getting painfully close to the end; "Step >> 6" in the GUI completes (apparently) successfully but the nodes do not >> *quite* finish imaging correctly when I attempt to boot them after this, >> before proceeding to testing. "Enable UYOK" and default systemimager-rsync >> imaging/Install Mode, PXE-DHCP-TFTP booting, all successful, node disks >> get partitioned and populated, and they encouraging show up in the >> "Monitor Cluster Deployment" window (bottom of "step 6") for a full five >> minutes... and then the installs fail at the 99% complete point. Checking >> a console connected to a node, SystemImager is dying when trying to set up >> a bootloader: it claims DEFAULTBOOT was not specied. I looked around on >> the web and see reference several times to DEFAULTBOOT being set to the >> kernel name in /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf (which is modified by >> the OSCAR installation GUI, step 6, when you click on "Setup Network Boot" >> at the bottom in the "Setup Networking..." section). In this case, it's >> being set to "systemimager"; perhaps this is as intended. HOwever, I tried >> setting it to the kernel I'm using, "2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64", and reimaging >> - with absolutely no change. >> >> This seems like a simple problem to solve, but after checking files and >> testing a bit I can't. Perhaps someone else has run into this and got >> past it. I appreciate that SystemImager's site and lists would be the >> place to look into this, but also expect that OSCAR users will have seen >> this if it was a problem. ANY guidance would be helpful. >> >> I've included the last few dozen lines from the log. Of possible note are >> a couple of broken pipes. The rsync daemon *is* running, despite the >> report in the log (and the nodes do image, at least mostly). >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Chris >> >> [...] >> >> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko >> >> insmod >> /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko >> >> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/l2cap.ko >> >> insmod >> /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/rfcomm.ko >> >> insmod >> /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bluetooth/bnep/bnep.ko >> >> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/bridge/bridge.ko >> >> insmod >> /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/exportfs/exportfs.ko >> >> insmod >> /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko >> >> insmod >> /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/nfs_common/nfs_acl.ko >> >> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.ko >> >> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko >> >>>>> Choosing filesystem for new initrd: cpio >>>>> Creating new initrd from staging dir: /tmp/.systemimager.0 >>>>> >> >> cd /tmp/.systemimager.0 && find . ! -name "*~" | cpio -H newc --create >> | gzip -9 > /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd.img >> 142586 blocks >> >> ls -l /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd.img >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20255928 Nov 7 16:01 >> /etc/systemimager/boot/initrd.img >> >> >>>> Evaluating initrd size to be added in the kernel boot options >>>> (e.g. /etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg): >>>> >> >> suggested value -> ramdisk_size=81533 >> >> cat: write error: Broken pipe >> >>>>> Using kernel from: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64 >>>>> >> >> ls -l /etc/systemimager/boot/kernel >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2069432 Nov 7 16:01 /etc/systemimager/boot/kernel >> >> >> WARNING: The rsync daemon was not started. You must run si_prepareclient >> again, without the -n option, before you can pull this >> client's image to an imageserver. >> >> Your client has been successfully prepared. Boot kernel (copied from >> this Linux distribution) and an initrd.img (generated by the >> initrd_template package) can be found in /etc/systemimager/boot. >> >> Automatically create configuration file for systemconfigurator: >> >> /etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf >> cat: write error: Broken pipe >> cat: write error: Broken pipe >> --> Step 6: Successfully enabled UYOK >> --> Step 6: Setup network boot: ./setup_pxe -v --uyok >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 290] Checking arguments. >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 116] Restarting xinetd >> Stopping xinetd: ESC[60G[ESC[0;32m OK ESC[0;39m] >> Starting xinetd: ESC[60G[ESC[0;32m OK ESC[0;39m] >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 118] Enabling tftp >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 132] Creating directories. >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 170] Getting pxelinux.0. >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 175] Copying default pxelinux.cfg file >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 182] Updating >> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to skip local.cfg and support >> si_monitor. >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 201] Disabling nonexec mappings on x86_64 >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 207] Copying SystemImager's message.txt to >> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 259] Updating >> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to support UYOK ramdisk size. >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 265] Copying SystemImager UYOK boot kernel >> and initrd.img to /tftpboot >> 2008-11-7 16:1:20 [main :: Line 272] Symlinking SystemImager UYOK boot >> kernel and initrd.img to /tftpboot/kernel and /tftpboot/initrd.img >> respectively >> --> Step 6: Successfully setup network boot >> tcpdump: no process killed >> --> Step 6: Stopped listening to network >> --> Step 6: Completed successfully >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Oscar-users mailing list >> Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users >> >> > > ====================================================================== Christopher C Stevenson, C4063 office: (709) 737-2624 Dept. of Physics & Physical Oceanography fax: (709) 737-8739 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, CANADA A1B 3X7 URL: http://www.physics.mun.ca/~csteven ====================================================================== "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
