Re: first [actually 2nd] node stuck

John Hughes <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:37:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
jhansen wrote:
> The differences start at "initrd-tools: 0.1.84.2.ssi4" which comes from 
> the initrd.
>
> What version of initrd-tools do you have installed?
>       0.1.84.2.ssi4
>
> You're doing an etherboot here? What version? 
>      I used: Etherboot 5.4.4 (2008-09-26) Image Generator at: 
> http://rom-o-matic.net/ rom-o-matic 
>
> Is it doing old-style 
> etherboot or PXE? 
>     ETHERBOOT
>   

(Newer "etherboot"s can do PXE boot as well, which avoids the yucky 
"combined" stuff/

> Is /tftpboot/initrd the same as the initrd your first 
> node is booting off? (initrd.img-2.6.12-ssi-686-smp) If you're doing an 
> old-style etherboot is /tftpboot/combined up to date? (I.E. does 
> /tftpboot/combined == /tftpboot/kernel + /tftpboot/initrd)
>    It looks like the files are different sized so I doubt it.
> In fact, please post a ls -lR of /tftpboot
>
>
> jhansen01:~# ls -lR /tftpboot
> /tftpboot:
> total 8776
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4481536 2009-04-26 12:08 combined
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1982767 2009-04-26 12:08 initrd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2488663 2009-04-25 23:15 kernel
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 2009-04-25 23:15 pxelinux.0 ->
> /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 2009-04-25 23:14 pxelinux.cfg
>
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg:
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 279 2008-07-24 14:28 default
>
>   
So
    cmp /tftpboot/initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-ssi-686-smp

says what?

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