Jason,
I'll send you a different tftpboot kernel, etc, which I created
specifically for PE1750's. The only thing I'm not sure of is your
messages about Reiser? Are you trying to create a ReiserFS on your
compute nodes.
Frank
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 07:14, Jason Hlady wrote:
> The NICs (according to the tech specs) are Intel PRO/1000 XT Gigabit
> NICs, onboard on the PowerEdge 1750.
>
> However, from dmesg:
>
> Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 with Broadcom NIC Extension
> (NICE) ver.
> 6.2.11 (05/16/03)
> eth0: Broadcom BCM5704 1000Base-T found at mem fcf30000, IRQ 16, node
> addr 000bd
> b940a4c
> eth0: Broadcom BCM5704 Integrated Copper transceiver found
> eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON,
> 802.1Q V
> LAN ON, NAPI ON
> eth1: Broadcom BCM5704 1000Base-T found at mem fcf10000, IRQ 17, node
> addr 000bd
> b940a4d
> eth1: Broadcom BCM5704 Integrated Copper transceiver found
> eth1: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON,
> 802.1Q V
> LAN ON, NAPI ON
>
>
> As for the hard drive controller, it's an integrated dual-channel Ultra
> 320 SCSI controller. It seems to be backed up by hardware RAID (tho
> there is only 1 disk in the cluster nodes). It seems to load
> "megaraid" to interface with the hardware RAID.
>
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:38 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:
>
> > Sorry... I was thinking that worked before, but wasn't sure. What
> > type of NIC and hard drive controller do your 1750's use?
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > At 01:13 PM 12/9/2003, Jason Hlady wrote:
> >> Thanks for the try...
> >>
> >> I copied that kernel to /tftpboot, and copied that initrd to
> >> /tftpboot as well.
> >>
> >> After gzipping initrd, and mv'ing it to initrd.img, the kernel
> >> started to boot, but then hit
> >>
> >> read super_block: cant find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,
> >> block 10, size 4096)
> >> read super_block: cant find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00,
> >> block 10, size 4096)
> >> Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> >>
> >> So either I did something wrong with the initrd, or it's not happy
> >> with my hardware. Hmm. Any further ideas? I freely admit that I'm
> >> not much of a kernel guy, so I might have just screwed this up.
> >>
> >> Jason
> >>
> >>
> >> On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:
> >>
> >>> At 12:37 PM 12/9/2003, Lombard, David N wrote:
> >>>> From: Jason Hlady; Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:29 AM
> >>>> [deletia]
> >>>> > The problem: when I go to install the nodes, the client (I
> >>>> presume
> >>>> > this is the systeminstaller client) boots, but then times out on
> >>>> > DHCPDISCOVER, checking only loopback and not finding eth0 or eth1.
> >>>> > dhclient starts, and you get
> >>>> >
> >>>> > Listening on LPF/lo/<null>
> >>>> > Sending on LPF/lo/<null>
> >>>> > Sending on Socket/Fallback/fallback
> >>>> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ..
> >>>> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> >>>> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> >>>> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> >>>> > DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> >>>> > No DHCPOFFERS received.
> >>>>
> >>>> So, we know the dhcp server is properly configured for the client,
> >>>> as it
> >>>> downloaded the systemimager kernel and initrd.
> >>>>
> >>>> Shortly after the initrd started, dhclient ran, sadly it's
> >>>> listening on
> >>>> the loopback interface, where it will never find a server...
> >>>>
> >>>> The question is: why doesn't the systemimager kernel/initrd see the
> >>>> device?
> >>>
> >>> Because it's out of date. Try this kernel/initrd combo that I had
> >>> to use on the 2650's w/ broadcom nics...
> >>> http://sponge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~jenos/2650/
> >>>
> >>> Jeremy
> >>>
> >>>> What NICs do you have in the clients?
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> David N. Lombard
> >>>>
> >>>> My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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