Morning Oscar users,
I have been running an Oscar5.0 installation for about a year. The Golden
Node/head node is running RHEL4 with 5 updates i386.
A year ago a colleague and I created an image (the same as the golden node) and
pushed it to two compute nodes. The system
has been running fine since. Recently I obtained 10 new nodes and I would like
to create a RHEL5 64 bit image to push down to them.
I know from the docs that RHEL5 is supported, but wasn't sure how to create a
whole new 64bit image. So far this is what I did.
I created a new directory:
/tftpboot/distro/redhat-el-ws-5-x86_64
The previous directory is:
/tftpboot/distro/redhat-el-ws-4-i386
and I copied all the rpms off all my RHEL64 discs into the directory:
/tftpboot/distro/redhat-el-ws-5-x86_64
I made sure permissions were o.k. and then I pulled up the oscar create client
image tool. I made sure to specify the new directory with rpms in the package
file.
I created a new image name. Iclicked on build image and at the end I receieved
a green light, it said it created an image successfully.
I went ahead to the next step and defined my new oscar clients, I submitted a
listed on mac addresses, made sure all new nodes were set to PXE boot and then
began to reboot the system.
As the nodes began to boot up I see dhcp server coming on and it assigns them
addresses. Then it fails. The failure happens with SI and reads:
Partitioning /dev/sda
old partition table for /dev/sda
Error:could not stat device /dev/sda - no such file or directory
I can ping these machines, but I have a feeling there is no boot kernel for
the 64 bit image in /tftpboot I see:
distro install-initrd-rhel-4-i386.img kernel memtest86
pxelinux.0
initrd.img install-kernel-i386 kernel-x
memtest86+-1.26 pxelinux.cfg
install-initrd-i386.img install-kernel-rhel-4-i386 localboot oscar
rpm
After it fails the screen goes to busy box.
Can anyone suggest what steps I should take (or that I am missing) in creating
the necessary 64 bit image for my nodes? Any advice you can provide is muchly
appreciated.
Thanks
-Rich
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