Hi, I'm trying to set up a Beowulf cluster using NFS root for booting, but I'm not having much success.
First of all, any dynamically linked init (or init replacement, such as init=/bin/bash) fails, with no error messages. I had no idea how to go about debugging that one, so I switched to statically linked executables, and encountered... The second problem is that even statically linked executables fail, but after executing a little bit. For instance, init (with some extra logging) usually fails just before it opens /etc/inittab. Hello world gets all the way through (but isn't good for much ;-). sash can cope with one empty command before freezing. shell2 (from Richard Stevens' "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment") can execute /bin/ls before freezing. This is all using 2.4.0-prerelease. (2.2.18 and 2.2.19pre3 both failed before even getting to mounting root -- I'm not sure why yet.) The kernel is loaded by LILO from an ext2 filesystem on a floppy or hard disk. Any clues as to what's going on, or the next thing to try, would be much appreciated. (Reply-to set to debian-user.) Tim. -- Tim Bell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - System Administrator & Programmer Trinity College, Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia