Do these new servers have SCSI or SATA hard drives? Is there any type of raid or something such that the disk may not detect as /dev/hda, but maybe something like /dev/cciss/c0d0, etc? --Joe
________________________________ From: RICHARD GREEN [mailto:gree...@u.washington.edu] Sent: Thu 1/15/2009 12:01 PM To: oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Oscar-users] Error:could not stat device /dev/sda - no such fileor directory 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
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