On Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:34:47 AM UTC-7, Markus Falb wrote:
> On 9.10.2012 18:39, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > On Monday, October 8, 2012 9:30:37 AM UTC-7, Markus Falb wrote:
> >>
> >> I was playing with razor today. But I am not going far.
> >>
> >> ipxe is downloading the microkernel but stays at 98%
> >> On the server side I see
> >>
> >> /opt/razor/Razor/bin/razor -w boot default
> >>
> '{"hw_id":"00:50:56:2e:c4:50_______","dhcp_mac":"01-00-50-56-2e-c4-50"}'
> >> /opt/razor/Razor/bin/razor -w image path mk kernel
> >>
> {"http_err_code":200,"errcode":0,"response":"/opt/razor/Razor/image/mk/687EqtppQJQPbgeirdhZy4/boot/vmlinuz","command":null,"result":"Ok","resource":"ProjectRazor::Slice::Image"}
>
>
> >>
> >>
> >> This suggests that the download of the microkernel finished
> >> successfully. If so, why doesnt the microkernel do something? Or did it
> >> and I only don't know how to tell?
> >
> > The iPXE progress meter is a bit special, in the classic "run to 99
> > percent, sit there forever" sense, but you are not wrong: this is not
> doing
> > the right thing.
> >
> > The client should download the kernel, then download an initrd, and then
> > boot a full Linux environment and run in it. You should see the usual
> > (verbose) Linux boot sequence progress through.
>
> well, my razor test server is a virtualbox guest bridged to the lan.
> The virtual host box is connected by wire.
>
> My initial test client was a vmware guest on my laptop which is
> connected per wlan.
>
> I tried a virtualbox guest instead on my laptop with similar experience.
> It downloaded the kernel but hangs at the initrd.
>
> i tried a virtualbox guest on the same host as the razor server is and
> the kernel boots and registers with razor.
>
> So I got something to work with at least, in a limited scope for now,
> though.
>
Hrm. That seems to point fairly squarely to some oddity at the network
layer: sending those files is pretty close to static file serving. If you
could capture a packet trace to figure out what was happening that would be
great.
> Thank You, hoping that the puppet mailing list is the appropiate media
> for questions about razor.
>
Yes, it is - no problems there. :)
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Daniel Pittman
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