Beowulf digest, Vol 1 #1136 - 3 msgs

[lothar at triumf.ca]

Thank you very much for your help...

So I installed a bproc system on top of RedHat 7.3 and the master seems
to run just fine.

I created a bootfloppy with beoboot -1 and the smallest kernel arround

and an upload ramdisk with beoboot -2. It is in /var/beowulf/boot.img.

The floppy in the diskless node just runs fine..gets the Rarp request,
obviously connects and
the messages then go:

request /var/beowulf/boot.img
connect: Invalid argument
bootimage download error
A fatal error has occurred.

So, what's wrong? I tried several kernels for the boot.img.

Lothar




Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> With regards to your message at 10:01 AM 11/30/02, 
> beowulf-request at beowulf.org. Where you stated:
>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:08:05 -0800
>> From: lothar at triumf.ca
>> Organization: TRIUMF
>> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
>> Subject: diskless kernel compilation for RedHat 7.3
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am upgrading a cluster which contains 20 diskless nodes from
>> Redhat 6.1 to 7.3. For the diskless nodes I need new kernels
>> compiled for use in nfs-root. However, the 7.3 distribution of
>> redhat does not allow to configure the compilation instructions
>> accordingly (no nfs-root option). Any idea why and how this
>> can be remedied?
>>
>> Thanx
>>
>> Lothar
>
>
> Hi Lothar.
>
> You might look at running a bproc based cluster environment for this. 
> It would make your job a lot simpler.
>
> Places to look:
> http://www.clustermatic.org
>
> We have a complete cluster installation toolset and installation, 
> RH7.3 based on our ftp site.
> This uses a modern kernel as well.
>
> ftp://ftp.harddata.com/pub/hddcs/3.2/2002-10-19/
>
> Help yourself!
>
>
> With our best regards,
>
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