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[xcat-user] weird partitioning errors on install
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From: mark.payba at mhpcc.hpc.m. (M. Payba) - 2006-03-29 10:54:37
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Using the SCSI bios disk utility to do a low level format of the drives solved my problem. That's one of the books! On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:29 -1000, Mark Payba wrote: > I'm getting the errors with the stock compute.tmpl and with the one > attached also. Also attached is the resulting /etc/fstab file, note the > swap entry. On certain nodes the /etc/fstab file will contain special > characters rather than the date as with n067. > > psh -s frame4 file /etc/fstab > n065: /etc/fstab: ASCII text > n066: /etc/fstab: ASCII text > n067: /etc/fstab: data > n068: /etc/fstab: ASCII text > n069: /etc/fstab: ASCII text > n070: /etc/fstab: ASCII text > n071: /etc/fstab: data > > > We used Shred-pro to "sanitize" the disks before this recent build. I'm > starting to suspect that might be the cause of my problems. Has any one > ever experienced disk sanitizing software causing errors like this? Is > there a way to do a low-level format of the disks with xcat or through > the bios? > > > > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 11:30 -0700, Egan Ford wrote: > > I just installed an x330 with RHFC4 without changing the ksh in the RHFC4 > > distro and have had none of the problems you describe. > > > > Perhaps a bad disk? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: xca...@li... > > > [mailto:xca...@li...] On Behalf Of Egan Ford > > > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:18 PM > > > To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list' > > > Subject: RE: [xcat-user] weird partitioning errors on install > > > Importance: High > > > > > > > > > Unsure. I will test next week. Can you send me your .tmpl file? > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: xca...@li... > > > > [mailto:xca...@li...] On Behalf Of Mark Payba > > > > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 6:07 PM > > > > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > > > > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] weird partitioning errors on install > > > > Importance: High > > > > > > > > > > > > Egan any idea as to what could be the cause for this? I > > > > though it might > > > > have something to do with the ksh-2005 problems I was experiencing > > > > earlier so after installing pdksh I reran copycds and > > > mkstage. It got > > > > better in that the line in fstab for the swap partition > > > > turned up blank > > > > instead of munged. Partitions labels occasional have a number "1" > > > > appended to them as if --initlabel is failing and label names > > > > are being > > > > incremented. I can force the creation of swap by adding > > > > "--asprimary" . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:21 -1000, Mark Payba wrote: > > > > > netfinity x330 865443Y > > > > > RHFC4 > > > > > xcat-1.2.0-RC2 > > > > > > > > > > I noticed that I didn't have any swap space on my newly > > > > installed nodes. > > > > > The swap entry in /etc/fstab has a date rather than a Label > > > > but fdisk > > > > > shows the swap partition is there. Also for some reason / > > > > is labeled /1 > > > > > on some nodes and / on others. All nodes in frame1 have > > > > label /1 and > > > > > correct swap partition all nodes in other frames have label > > > > / correct > > > > > and a swap partition but a date for the /etc/fstab entry. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ############################################################## > > > > ########### > > > > > > > > > > from $XCATROOT/install/rhfc4/x86/base/compute.tmpl > > > > > > > > > > # Wipe out the disk > > > > > # > > > > > clearpart --all --initlabel > > > > > > > > > > #No RAID > > > > > part /boot --size 50 --ondisk sda --fstype ext3 > > > > > part swap --size 1024 --ondisk sda > > > > > part / --size 1 --grow --ondisk sda --fstype ext3 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ############################################################## > > > > ########## > > > > > > > > > > [root@n001 ~]# cat /etc/fstab > > > > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' > > > > for details > > > > > LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults > > > > > 1 1 > > > > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > > > > > 1 2 > > > > > /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts > > > > gid=5,mode=620 > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > /dev/proc /proc proc defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > master:/usr/nfs/xcat /usr/nfs/xcat nfs timeo=14,intr,nfsvers=2 1 2 > > > > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > > > > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > > /dev/hda /media/cdrom auto > > > > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > [root@n001 ~]# free > > > > > total used free shared buffers > > > > > cached > > > > > Mem: 774432 63228 711204 0 3512 > > > > > 33148 > > > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 26568 747864 > > > > > Swap: 1052248 0 1052248 > > > > > > > > > > [root@n001 ~]# e2label /dev/sda1 > > > > > /boot > > > > > [root@n001 ~]# e2label /dev/sda2 > > > > > e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to > > > > open /dev/sda2 > > > > > Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. > > > > > [root@n001 ~]# e2label /dev/sda3 > > > > > /1 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ############################################################## > > > > ############### > > > > > > > > > > on suspect node > > > > > > > > > > [root@n033 tmp]# cat /etc/fstab > > > > > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' > > > > for details > > > > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > > > > > 1 1 > > > > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > > > > > 1 2 > > > > > /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts > > > > gid=5,mode=620 > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > /dev/proc /proc proc defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > LABEL= 2006 23:42:04 swap swap defaults > > > > > 0 0 > > > > > aupolei:/usr/nfs/xcat /usr/nfs/xcat nfs > > > timeo=14,intr,nfsvers=2 1 2 > > > > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > > > > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > > /dev/hda /media/cdrom auto > > > > > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > [root@n033 tmp]# free > > > > > total used free shared buffers > > > > > cached > > > > > Mem: 1034512 66908 967604 0 3324 > > > > > 33856 > > > > > -/+ buffers/cache: 29728 1004784 > > > > > Swap: 0 0 0 > > > > > > > > > > [root@n033 tmp]# e2label /dev/sda1 > > > > > /boot > > > > > [root@n033 tmp]# e2label /dev/sda2 > > > > > e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to > > > > open /dev/sda2 > > > > > Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. > > > > > [root@n033 tmp]# e2label /dev/sda3 > > > > > / > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > xcat-user mailing list > > > > > xca...@li... > > > > > http://www.xcat.org/mailman/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > xcat-user mailing list > > > > xca...@li... > > > > http://www.xcat.org/mailman/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > xcat-user mailing list > > > xca...@li... > > > http://www.xcat.org/mailman/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xcat-user mailing list > > xca...@li... > > http://www.xcat.org/mailman/listinfo/xcat-user > _______________________________________________ > xcat-user mailing list > xca...@li... > http://www.xcat.org/mailman/listinfo/xcat-user -- Mark Payba Phone: 808.879.5077 x254 Senior Computer Systems Engineer Fax: 808.879.5018 Maui High Performance Computing Center Web: www.mhpcc.hpc.mil 550 Lipoa Parkway email: mar...@mh... 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