I have attached the log file for what was a completed installation to a
compute node.  After compute node reboot, it boots up and then I just get a
blinking cursor.

Thank you for the help.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:03 PM,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nope, I know for a fact that there was no OS on the compute node's drive
> > before I started. The image installed on the machine.  For example, The
> > /etc/hosts is correct for what I imaged.  I can use boot cd to get onto
> > machine, use chroot (to /mnt/sysimage/) and then nsf mount /home on the
> > oscar master node and see files on the head node.  I would not be able to
> do
> > that if the image had not installed.
> >
> > The major hardware difference is the hard drive (4TB raid on master node
> and
> > 73 GB SAS on compute node).
> >
> > I guess I will simply set up oscar from another fresh OS install on one
> of
> > the compute nodes, then image the other compute nodes (with UYOK).
> > What/where will the major differences be on the image from the raid head
> > node and the compute node temporarily made to be a head node?  Will the
> only
> > difference important differences show up in the
> > /var/lib/systemimager/images/<image_name> directory?
>
> Your log clearly shows that SystemImager cannot detect your HD,
> therefore it will not be able to rsync anything over.  So I am
> confused how your HD got imaged at all.  Perhaps you pasted a
> different log file, I'm not sure.  What should've happened after
> "enumerate_disks" is "DISKS=1" (meaning SystemImager detected you have
> 1 disk, instead you get DISK=0 meaning SystemImager cannot detect any
> disks) and it will start partitioning your disk according to your
> .master script and start rsyncing your image over.
>
> Anyway, if your image server has different hardware than your compute
> node, you should do a lsmod comparison of the loaded modules between
> your image server and compute node, and attempt to load the missing
> storage modules on your image server.  Once they are loaded with
> modprobe, re-run UYOK kernel/initrd generation, that should create a
> ramdisk with the suitable storage adaptor (SAS) modules loaded which
> should hopefully work with your client imaging.
>
> If you are to use a compute node as a headnode, you will not be able
> to use your original headnode to control your compute nodes, i.e. with
> any manual hackery.  The created image (in
> /var/lib/systemimager/images) should be identical, the only difference
> should be the UYOK initrd (which when generated on your compute node
> should contain the correct storage modules).
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernard
>

Attachment: install-log6.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

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