thanks for the response guys
I tried it with UYOK also but it didnt work, and when I did bootable disk
its hanging trying to install the usb keyboard, I have never used dracut,
will see how it works, After hanging trying to install the keyboard I just
hit a random key and its giving me a prompt /mymodules# Im not sure how to
proceed from here. Still a newbie.
Thanks for helping out.
On 20 June 2014 20:19, LAHAYE Olivier <olivier.lah...@cea.fr> wrote:
> Hi Tamuka,
>
>
>
> This is clearly a boot image problem L
>
>
>
> Can you tell me where it hangs. Do you see kernel boot messages? Is it
> able to start the systemimager script?
>
> The “known” problem is when lvcreate tries to create the volume groups. I
> think that building the rpm from rhel6 that uses an old lvm conflict with
> the boot image lvm version.
>
> The issue is that the rpm builds on a 2.6.32 running kernel with 2.6.32
> sys includes and old lvm includes, and the image tries (in order to have
> latest hardware support) to build a 3.x kernel with a new lvm that is
> designed to work with kernel 3.X
>
> Unfortunately, eventhough I did my best to force using built 3.x kernel
> includes when building the new lvm it looks like the build still uses rhel6
> old lvm includes and rhel6 2.6.32 kernel includes. Thus the problems L
>
>
>
> The new approach will be to build the minimum (flamethrower client,
> bittorent client, and a few minor stuffs) and use Dracut to create the boot
> image using distro kernel (with latest hardware support), distro lvm utils
> commands, …) and thus obtain a stable and coherent image that supports
> latest hardware.
>
>
>
> In the meantime, you can trie to extract the image, replace the kernel
> modules with running system ones, the lvm utils and libs from running
> system , recreate the initrd and boot with the system kernel and see if it
> helps.
>
>
>
> Before doing that, you could try to install using raw partitions instead
> of lvm. (the problem waybe before lvm).
>
>
>
> Best regards.
>
>
>
> PS: My progress so fat on creating the boot image is:
>
> - I can create a boot image by hand for non systemd based systems
>
> - The image boots but fail to start the correct systemimage
> script (should be easy to fix). Problem is that the image tries to do a
> pivot root.
>
> - I need to write systemd side (files that will trigger the
> install)
>
> - I need to update the initrd make.d build files. Remove all
> <component>.rul that exists on the build host and keep only specific stuffs
>
>
>
> Olivier.
>
>
>
> *De :* tamuka [mailto:bmasa...@gmail.com]
> *Envoyé :* vendredi 20 juin 2014 15:00
> *À :* oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Cc :* LAHAYE Olivier
> *Objet :* Re: [Oscar-users] Status of SystemImager project?
>
>
>
> Hi Olivier andJesse
>
>
>
> I'm having trouble with tftp for network booting, "PXE 32 tftp open
> timeout" Is this related to the problem you just mentioned , I am using
> Centos 6 and OSCAR 6 as well. I have tried all the solutions I hv found
> online, but none of them has worked, thus, disabling firewall, iptables,
> making
> sure xinetd and tftp server are running, putting dhcp and xinetd on the
> same machine, I also tried to write the image to a disk and install from
> there and its hanging before it goes far,
>
>
>
> Is this something i can resolve or its it needs me to wait for the system
> imager fix? I am building a small cluster for an academic project and I
> have taken longer than I was allowed to to get things running. Is there a
> quick fix I can do?
>
> Thank you for your response
>
>
>
> On 20 June 2014 18:15, Connell, Jesse <jess...@bu.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks Olivier! This is good timing, actually; I just this morning saw my
> latest attempt at an auto install freeze at the first call to lvcreate,
> and didn't understand why until I saw your response. UYOK should be fine
> for us, and we actually were using custom kernels anyway up until now; I
> just thought I'd give the defaults in si_mkautoinstalldisk a try. I'll go
> back to our previous boot files and see how it goes. Thanks again for the
> quick response.
>
> Jesse
>
>
> On 6/20/14, 6:16 AM, "Olivier LAHAYE" <olivier.lah...@cea.fr> wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi Jesse,
> >
> >I'm still working on systemImager, but I'm right now very buzy at work,
> >so
> >progress is slow.
> >Anyway, the latest working packages are in OSCAR repository.
> >
> >I've been told that lvm on some hardware freezes.
> >The solution in that case is tu use the UYOK (Use Your Own Kernel).
> >
> >The problem in SystemImager is the boot image template creation. the
> >build
> >method is broken. It used to be fine when kernel 2.4 or 2.6 were of the
> >same
> >generation among all linux distros, but new, the versions are too much
> >etherogeneous and thus, when generating a kernel 3.x boot image on a
> >rhel6 for
> >example leads to broken stuffs (lvm build with kernel 2.6 system include
> >and
> >running on a kernel 3.x).
> >
> >My aim is to change boot image creation and replace most of the build
> >with
> >dracut. Unfortunately, this needs time because dracut command uses
> >modules
> >that are not available on all distros (e.g. systemd).
> >I also need to check how to run systemimager scripts from a dracut image.
> >(2
> >cases: initscripts or systemd)
> >
> >I'm sorry for being so long in finxing this, but I really have to much
> >work
> >right now to fix everything fast. OSCAR depends on SystemImager, so be
> >assured
> >that sooner or later, I4ll fix this once for all.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Olivier.
> >
> >Le Thursday 19 June 2014 17:11:40 Connell, Jesse a écrit :
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'm working on setting up a new installation of SystemImager, but I'm a
> >> bit confused about the state of the project, particularly documentation,
> >> releases, etc. I'm asking here just because I've seen helpful
> >> SystemImager-related messages from Olivier Lahaye show up here in recent
> >> history, and the rpm packages hosted on svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org
> >> (whereas the official releases seem to have stopped around 2008, and the
> >> SourceForge mailing list is just spam now, sadly).
> >>
> >> So does anyone know: should I consider the packages on
> >> openclustergroup.org the most official release these days? And if I
> try
> >> using the latest source from github, do you think it'll really make
> >>small
> >> animals cry, etc., as README.unstable warns? Is there any documentation
> >> aside from what's there with the code itself and the 4.1.6 manual still
> >>on
> >> the site? (I'd love to know if the wiki is still hiding somewhere!)
> >>
> >> Thanks for any tips!
> >>
> >> Jesse
> >>
> >>
> >>
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