Re: cluster node is only booting kernel and ends then

On 8/19/06, niam. tni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've setup successfully a running initnode on Debian Linux but I have
> problems getting some nodes connected to cluster.
> Using etherboot to bootup other nodes they find DHCP server, get some
> IP address, and load "combined" image (?) from initnode's directory
> /tftpboot. Booting Kernel works so far but boot process stops at this
> line:
>
>
>
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... OK.
>
>
> Long time after (perhaps 10 minutes) kernel panics ("Fatal exception
> in interrupt").
>
> To solve this problem I need to know, which steps are missing after
> booting up node's kernel - does it start a minimal Linux system?
>
> Node's kernel command line has an option "root = /dev/nfs". Looks curious.
> Does this mean, it tries to load the basic system from initnode over NFS?


That is not OpenSSI added option. I guess you are missing some
etherboot configuration. All my testing with Debian ( long time back )
has been with PXE so i am not sure wether we are missing something
specific to etherboot.

-aneesh

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