Now I use rootwait instead of rootdelay=N,  24-core is still not stable and
more than that doesn't boot.
This is a failure case of 24-core

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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> rootwait doesn't take an argument, and should be used *in place of*
> rootdelay=N.
>
> Try *just* 'rootwait'. Nothing else.
>
> Tyler
>
> > I added both rootdelay=2000 and rootwait=2000 in the menu.lst file.
> > Still booting 24-core is not always successful.
> > 64-core doesn't boot as before.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Try 'rootwait' instead of 'rootdelay=N'.
> >>
> >> The former will wait indefinitely, whereas the latter will timeout and
> >> is
> >> probably resulting in the inconsistency that you are observing.
> >>
> >> Tyler
> >>
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > I modified the rootdelay to 2000. And compiled MARSS with 16, 24 and
> >> 64
> >> > cores respectively.
> >> >
> >> > ​
> >> >
> >> > The result is:
> >> > 16-core is quite fine and is working well.
> >> > 24-core is not stable, not every time the system can boot, sometimes
> >> it
> >> > doesn't boot.
> >> > For 64-core, the boot fails and the screen output is like
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Best
> >> > Wen
> >> > ​
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Brendan Fitzgerald
> >> > <[email protected]
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> http://marss86.org/~marss86/index.php/QEMU_Tips
> >> >>
> >> >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Wen Zong <[email protected]>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Hi
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Finally I was able to increase the size of the image and copied all
> >> >>> parsec files to the image and now try to boot the 64-core system.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> But the guest Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)  cannot boot with 64-core
> >> setup.
> >> >>> And the output is like this
> >> >>> [image: Inline image 1]
> >> >>> This seems to be the problem of the guest kernel itself.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The ubuntu-natty.qcow2 also doesn't work with 64-core  whose output
> >> is
> >> >>> like this
> >> >>> [image: Inline image 2]
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I guess the guest kernel needs to be modified to make it work on
> >> >>> 64-core
> >> >>> processor.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Best
> >> >>> Wen
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Brendan Fitzgerald <
> >> >>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> http://marss86.org/~marss86/index.php/QEMU_Tips
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Wen Zong
> >> <[email protected]>
> >> >>>> wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>> Hi
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> My desktop connects the network through a proxy which makes the
> >> >>>>> network
> >> >>>>> setup tricky for me, so I gave up this morning.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> I'm now trying another approach by creating a image of ubuntu
> >> 12.04
> >> >>>>> (precise) and then copy the parsec files and ./create_checkpoint
> >> etc.
> >> >>>>> into
> >> >>>>> my new image.
> >> >>>>> I first copy the content from parsecROI.img to my host with the
> >> help
> >> >>>>> kpartx command.
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Now the problem is that when I copy the parsec folder from my host
> >> to
> >> >>>>> the new image, it doesn't have enough space.
> >> >>>>> I've tried to increase the rootsize option when invoking
> >> >>>>> ubuntu-vm-builder but the image size is the same as when it is set
> >> to
> >> >>>>> 5120.
> >> >>>>> And after mounting, the image is a 4.1GB volume.
> >> >>>>> Here's my configuration:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> [DEFAULT]
> >> >>>>> arch = amd64
> >> >>>>> suite = precise
> >> >>>>> rootsize = *10120 # I increased this but the raw image size
> >> doesn't
> >> >>>>> change compared with 5120*
> >> >>>>> addpkg = openssh-server, openssh-client, vim
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Do you know how to increase the size of the image?
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> Many thanks
> >> >>>>> Wen
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Brendan Fitzgerald <
> >> >>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>>>>
> >> >>>>>> You need to first convert the image to qcow2, since the
> >> >>>>>> parsecROI.img
> >> >>>>>> is read-only.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> You'll also need to enable networking, there are a bunch of sites
> >> >>>>>> that
> >> >>>>>> say how to do this.
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Wen Zong
> >> <[email protected]
> >> >
> >> >>>>>> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Hi Brendan
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Thank you for the suggestion.
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Do you mean I do the upgrade in the guest OS?
> >> >>>>>>> I tried this in the provided parsecROI.img and cannot upgrade
> >> >>>>>>> anything.
> >> >>>>>>> The IP address in parsecROI.img is 127.0.0.1 which is different
> >> >>>>>>> from
> >> >>>>>>> the default qemu network setting.
> >> >>>>>>> I'm not sure if this is this the problem of the network
> >> >>>>>>> configuration.
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> Best
> >> >>>>>>> Wen
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Brendan Fitzgerald <
> >> >>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> You can update the image using apt-get dist-upgrade.
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> I know kernel version 3.0 works fine with Marss, I can't
> >> remember
> >> >>>>>>>> off the top of my head if 3.2 works, but I know 3.16 doesn't,
> >> so
> >> >>>>>>>> just be
> >> >>>>>>>> aware of how recent of an Ubuntu release you go to.
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 4:35 AM, Wen Zong
> >> >>>>>>>> <[email protected]>
> >> >>>>>>>> wrote:
> >> >>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Hi all
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> I'm try to simulate a 64-core system and run Parsec benchmark
> >> to
> >> >>>>>>>>> test its performance.
> >> >>>>>>>>> However the provided parsec image is using ubuntu 9.04, which
> >> >>>>>>>>> supports at most 16 cores.
> >> >>>>>>>>> Could someone give some suggestion to increase the maximal
> >> number
> >> >>>>>>>>> of supported cores to 64?
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> One possible solution is that, I can create the disk image
> >> using
> >> >>>>>>>>> higher version of ubuntu which is supposed to support more 64
> >> >>>>>>>>> cores. But I
> >> >>>>>>>>> don't have the modified Parsec benchmark in which the PTLcalls
> >> >>>>>>>>> are
> >> >>>>>>>>> inserted to mark the Region of Interest.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Very appreciated if you can give some advices.
> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >>>>>>>>> Best regards
> >> >>>>>>>>> Wen
> >> >>>>>>>>>
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> >> >>>>>
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