Re: [Drbl-user] "unable to open an initial console" Problem

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

I will try to find a RedHat 9 here to try that.
BTW, what's the client CPU arch ? What's the size of its memory ?

Steven.


Mehdi Sheikhalishahi wrote:
> Dear All,
> The following are bug report of our problem. Also I attached as file.
> Description of problem:
> 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.
> 
> 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!
> 
> How reproducible:
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> 
> Some info about the DRBL environment (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THEM!):
> ===
> OS version: RedHat 9
> Server arch: i686
> Server CPU:  Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
> Server memory size: 1022808 kB
> Server Kernel version: 2.4.20-8
> Installed DRBL-related packages:  drbl-1.7.7-9 mkpxeinitrd-net-1.1-26
> clonezilla-1.4.3-27 partimage-0.6.5_beta3-4drbl
> drbl-ntfsprogs-1.13.1-4 drbl-chntpw-0.0.20040818-7 lzop-1.02-0.6drbl
> udpcast-20060929-1drbl etherboot-5.4.2-2drbl freedos-1.0-11drblServer
> glibc ver and arch: glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7 i686
> Client kernel version: 2.4.20-8
> Client kernel arch: i686
> NICs with private IP address in server: eth0 eth1
> Private IP address in server: 192.168.8.57 192.168.100.254
> Total client no:       2
> Client IP address: 192.168.100.1 192.168.100.2
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Description of problem:
> 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.
> 
> 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!
> 
> How reproducible:
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 
> Actual results:
> 
> Expected results:
> 
> 
> Some info about the DRBL environment (PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THEM!):
> ===
> OS version: RedHat 9
> Server arch: i686
> Server CPU:  Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
> Server memory size: 1022808 kB
> Server Kernel version: 2.4.20-8
> Installed DRBL-related packages:  drbl-1.7.7-9 mkpxeinitrd-net-1.1-26 clonezilla-1.4.3-27 partimage-0.6.5_beta3-4drbl drbl-ntfsprogs-1.13.1-4 drbl-chntpw-0.0.20040818-7 lzop-1.02-0.6drbl udpcast-20060929-1drbl etherboot-5.4.2-2drbl freedos-1.0-11drbl
> Server glibc ver and arch: glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7 i686
> Client kernel version: 2.4.20-8
> Client kernel arch: i686
> NICs with private IP address in server: eth0 eth1
> Private IP address in server: 192.168.8.57 192.168.100.254
> Total client no:       2
> Client IP address: 192.168.100.1 192.168.100.2
> ===
> 
> 
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