Thanks for the feedback. It appears there were two problems that instigated my post:
1. confusion on how the crowbar admin node gets installed 2. a bug during the admin node install that causes the reboot to fail On item 1, the wiki instructions suggested that the admin node gets installed by attaching a laptop-hosted VM to the admin node and PXE booting the physical admin node off this VM. I was attempting to use the crowbar iso image to create that laptop-hosted installer VM. It appears, however, that the admin node is directly created by booting from the crowbar iso image. So, I actually had an imaged Crowbar admin node in my VM after booting from this iso. On item 2, the problem with the console coming up after the ISO install completes and the VM reboots appears to be a bug during the install of the ISO. The apparmor package looks like it's not installing successfully during the iso boot+install which results in a missing /lib/apparmor/functions file. When the admin node reboots after the install, the missing file aborts the boot process and leaves the admin node inaccessible (blank console and no SSH access). I've documented a work around, where I attach the installed image to a CentOS live image, chroot to the mounted subsystem, and reinstall apparmor manually https://dev.uabgrid.uab.edu/ticket/227#comment:2 This is workaround is fine for me, at least during dev. I am a little confused on item one about the difference of the documented install process. If the booting of the ISO now causes the admin node to get installed, that suggests I'll need an external boot device (cdrom or usb) attached to my physical admin node instead of the documented laptop-hosted VM from which the admin node PXE boots. Is this interpretation of a new approach to the admin node install correct? Any thoughts on why I'm hitting an apparmor install problem during the iso install? Thanks, ~jpr On 08/26/2013 01:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > John-Paul, > > This is common in a virtual box install. I'm don't know why the console is > unavailable. I ssh to the node and run the install script remotely > (/opt/dell/bin/install-crowbar admin.whatever.org) > > I configure my vm admin node to have 8 Gig of mem, two processors, and 24 Gig > storage. > > Hope this helps... > > Wayne > > > -----Original Message----- > From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of John-Paul Robinson > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:41 AM > To: crowbar > Subject: [Crowbar] crowbar 1.6 mesa iso in virtualbox > > Hello > > In preparation for upgrading our physical servers from Essex to Grizzly, I'm > trying to test the crowbar 1.6 iso > (crowbar-mesa-1.6_openstack-os-build.3508.dev.iso) in a VirtualBox > environment to build an admin node and test a simple compute/storage node > config. > > I've created a 1GB VM (called crowbar-iso) attached to an internal network > and seem to be able to successfully boot the ISO. It goes through an > automatic install process that appears to image the VM ending with a somewhat > length "preseed" install step. That's the last thing I can observe the VM > doing. > > After this step the VM console turns to black and I expect the login prompt > from step 11 of > http://crowbar.github.io/docs/getting-started/install-admin-node.html to show > up. The console stays dark though. > > I've attempted to restart the VM and it seems to boot from the disk, without > the crowbar iso attached. At least, there is no error about not finding an > OS. From what I can tell, this is a CentOS image but I can't seem to > "access" it any way like alt consoles or such. > > Should I expect this iso to be functional? Is there some system requirement > that would prevent the login prompt from appearing, like a min ram? > > My goal is to get the crowbar-iso VM operational and the attach my > crowbar-admin VM to the same internal network and bootstrap the system this > way. > > Any suggestions? > > ~jpr > > _______________________________________________ > Crowbar mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar > For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/ > _______________________________________________ Crowbar mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/crowbar For more information: http://crowbar.github.com/
