Marcelo Tomim wrote: > Hello, > > I have been trying to set up a 16 node cluster with ubuntu 7.10, but without > much success. > I started off by making the debian packages to install systemimager 4.0.2. > Everything seemed OK, until running si_clusterconfig routine, that did not go > interactive at all. It only thing it did was throwing the following text on > the screen. > > sh: Illegal option -p > Caching XML configuration to /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/cluster.txt ... [ > OK ] > Synchronizing /etc/hosts to /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/hosts ... [ OK ]
Which default shell are you using? You can check it by: ls -l /bin/sh > > Given that si_clusterconfig did not work, I ran si_addclients, which seemed > to > have worked fine. Therefore, I just stopped trying to make si_clusterconfig > work. As a workaround you can just edit /etc/systemimager/cluster.xml manually and run si_clusterconfig -u > > I even got the golden client mirrored on to another node, which had a > previous > Fedora 5 installation on it, in a different hard drive (yeah, each node has > two hard drives). Then, things started getting weird. Firstly, the node would > keep rebooting and getting installed over and over. I even set this node for > a localboot with si_mkclientnetboot, without success. Did you start netbootmond (/etc/init.d/systemimager-server-netbootmond)? Moreover, check if your tftpd is working in the same root directory of SystemImager (you can check this looking at the TFTP_DIR parameter in /etc/systemimager/systemimager.conf. > > I imagined that once a node get installed, it would automatically start > locally after rebooting, which did not happen. > > In order to check if the system had really got installed on the node, I first > stopped the dhcp server, hopping that the new system would start. However, > for my surprise, Fedora 5 started. At least we were able mount the second > hard drive and check that the ubuntu system was in fact installed. > > Sorry for the long email, but I am completely lost and I have no clue about > what to do next and make the node start locally after the installation. > > Regards, > Marcelo Tomim. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
