Ed,
I don't know about OSCAR's kernel, but FC2 does run on Dell PE1750's
without a problem. It's probably an issue with the initrd file, not
including the correct driver.
What disk controller do you have in the box?
Frank
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 00:00, Ed Hill wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I saw some previous messages about the latest oscar with Fedora Core 2.
> So I grabbed the latest from SVN and tried it yesterday on a tiny demo
> cluster (4 nodes--all Dell 1750's).
>
> Everything up to (and including) the PXE boot-and-image stage worked
> well. Then the first time the nodes booted from their disks they all
> failed early in the boot stage with the message:
>
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or unknown-block(0,0)
> Please apend a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
>
> This happened with both the default FC2 kernel (2.6.5-1.358) and the
> latest updated version (2.6.8-1.521). I think the problem is some sort
> of hardware incompatibility with the 2.6.x kernels but was just
> wondering if others had seen it or could offer advice.
>
> And thanks to all the oscar developers for slick cluster setup tool!
>
> Ed
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