partitioning HD for use of swap & for booting
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Beowulf beowulf at cecs.csulb.eduWed Jun 27 19:25:21 PDT 2001
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We are trying the scyld beowulf software. I have successfully been able to boot from a floppy but now I would like to boot from the beoboot partition on the harddrive. We have one master and 4 slaves all with new 10Gb drives. I have gone through the steps as instructed but believe I am missing something perhaps remedial to linux as I am not a unix person. Here's what I did in order: >> beofdisk -q >> beofdisk -d >> beofdisk -w Then I modified my fstab to look like this, commenting out the ramdisk and uncommenting the dev/hda lines. (what do the double digits at the end of each line mean?) # 40MB RAM disk by default. #$RAMDISK / ext2 fs_size=40960 0 0 # This is the default setup from beofdisk, once you setup your disks. /dev/hda1 beoboot ext2 defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1 # These should always be added none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 # NFS (for example and default friendliness) $MASTER:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 So now I did >> beoboot-install -a /dev/hda and it reports back all is dandy but when I reboot the nodes, >> bpctl -S all -s reboot I get the following in my /var/log/beowulf/node.X [root at brutesquad /root]# more /var/log/beowulf/node.0 node_up: Setting system clock. node_up: TODO set interface netmask. node_up: Configuring loopback interface. setup_fs: Configuring node filesystems... setup_fs: Using /etc/beowulf/fstab setup_fs: Checking /dev/hda1 (type=ext2)... e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/ hda1 is mounted. /dev/hda1: clean, 16/2000 files, 1103/8001 blocks setup_fs: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /rootfs/beoboot... (type=ext2; options=defaults) mount: mount point /rootfs/beoboot does not exist Failed to mount /dev/hda1 on beoboot. [root at brutesquad /root]# What am I missing? Mobo bios is set to boot c: drive first. Joe Nellis beowulf at cecs.csulb.edu
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