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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Greetings,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm looking for some help on a problem we're having with getting the demo Scyld distribution working on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">our cluster. I'm not the admin for the cluster and will probably omit some critical information on the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">first pass so please bear with me. The cluster configuration consists of 8 single-processor nodes and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">8 dual-processor nodes. The single-cpu nodes boot without problem. The dual-cpu nodes do not.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The screen information indicates a problem after the partition check at the "end of phase 1". The</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">following message appears:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Invalid session number or type of track</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Rebooting in 30 seconds ...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This results in an continuous boot loop. We get this same result for each of the dual-cpu nodes.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Joe</FONT>
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