Re: [Drbl-user] "unable to open an initial console" Problem
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From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2007-02-06 12:23:35
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Could you please follow this to provide more info so that it's easier for us to debug: http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/#bug-report Steven. Mehdi Sheikhalishahi wrote: > Dear Steven, > I follow your suggestion, But problem does not resolved. I got the > following errors from Client: > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Finished Busybox linuxrc! Enter DRBL init! > Freeing unused kernel memory...... > Warning: unable to open an initial console > Kernel panic: Attempt to kill init! > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > The following are output of command. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [root@saeed root]# /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-nfs-conf -p udp > The NFS protocol you set for DRBL client is: udp > Modifying the NFS protocol parameter of clients... done! > ------------------------------------------------------- > Creating the network boot kernel image for DRBL clients... > Will client check DHCP server name is "drbl" or not: yes > The maximum times to try to get IP address for a client: 3 > The pause time after network card is up: 0 > Searching the latest installed kernel for DRBL client... This might > take several minutes... > Trying to find the kernel in /tftpboot/node_root > The selected kernel for DRBL clients is: 2.4.20-8 > The DRBL client uses i686 kernel with version 2.4.20-8... > Trying to update the /tftpboot/node_root/lib/modules/2.4.20-8 from > server's /lib/modules/... This might take several minutes... > Found kernel modules in /lib/modules/2.4.20-8 and its arch "i686" > matches client's "i686"... > Syncing /lib/modules/2.4.20-8 to client's common root... > Syncing /boot/*-2.4.20-8* to client's common root... > Generating the /tftpboot/node_root/lib/modules/2.4.20-8/modules.dep > Creating the network boot initrd for PXE clients... > Use kernel modules from /tftpboot/node_root//lib/modules/2.4.20-8. > tar: kernel/net/sunrpc: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:13:05 is 192015300 s > in the future > tar: kernel/fs/nfs: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:49 is 192015284 s in the > future > tar: kernel/fs/nfsd: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:49 is 192015284 s in > the future > tar: kernel/fs/lockd: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:49 is 192015284 s in > the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net/e100: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is > 192015283 s in the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net/e1000: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is > 192015283 s in the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is > 192015283 s in the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net/skfp: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is > 192015283 s in the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net/tulip: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is > 192015283 s in the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net/tulip_old: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is > 192015283 s in the future > tar: kernel/drivers/net: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:48 is 192015283 s > in the future > tar: kernel/lib/zlib_deflate: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:49 is > 192015284 s in the future > tar: kernel/lib: time stamp 2011-02-03 15:12:49 is 192015284 s in the > future > Creating the EXT2 initrd... > Finished! > ------------------------------------------------------- > Since some config files are modified in template client, creating > template tarball for DRBL SSI... > ***************************************************** > Trying to stop clonezilla if necessary so that the unnecessary > services in rc1.d will be removed... done! > ***************************************************** > Using template host /tftpboot/nodes/192.168.100.1 > Resetting files of /tftpboot/node_root/drbl_ssi for DRBL SSI... done! > Generating SSH host keys for client 192.168.100.1 if they do not > exist... done! > Generating the files for DRBL single system image template... etc... > var... opt/drbl... Root's openssh public key... done! > Please reboot the CLIENTS to make the new setting of NFS effect! > > > On 2/6/07, Steven Shiau <st...@nc...> wrote: >> Mmm... RedHat 9. >> Maybe you can try to run >> /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-nfs-conf -p udp >> to force NFS use udp instead of tcp, since as I remember, for RH9, the >> kernel only supports NFS over udp. If this works, the weird thing is, >> drblpush should do that for you. But it did not. No idea why. >> Please tell us the results. >> >> Steven. >> >> Mehdi Sheikhalishahi wrote: >> > Hi Group, >> > I use drbl-1.7.7-9 to deploy a Diskless cluster, Everything is >> > successful according to the DRBL documentation. But when I boot Client >> > I got "Warning: unable to open an initial console" error, and then >> > Client stops. What's the problem? >> > My Server Operating System is RedHat9 with 2.4.20-8 as its kernel, and >> > I choose 2.4.20-31.9 for Client kernel. >> > >> >> -- >> Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> >> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. >> http://www.nchc.org.tw >> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 9762755A >> > > - -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFFyHO7CLPj15didVoRAqN7AJdcz4MEvPB1RFM+VdWxMrGQHGNAAJ9ysTQ9 7zAZBt/sAhysnpsIm9X1Kw== =wuLR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |