Re: [OSR-users] New Preview RPMs for next Release Candidate of comoonics-bootimage

[Dan M. <dan...@or...>]

Attached is the output from the messages command to
the rescueshell for a freshly created initrd (with
a smaller lib/modules).

Some messages I see on the console which do not appear
in the "messages" output:

Detecting Hardware ./etc/hardware-lib.sh: line 458: unknown_hardware_detect: command not found

Loading modules for all found network cardsFATAL: Module xennet not found.

error: "xen.independent_wallclock" is an unknown key


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Magenheimer 
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:14 PM
> To: Marc Grimme; ope...@li...
> Subject: Re: [OSR-users] New Preview RPMs for next Release 
> Candidate of
> comoonics-bootimage
> 
> 
> Hi Marc --
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  First, let me clarify that I am
> trying two different approaches:
> 
> (A) Use your entire OSR RHEL5+OCFS2 howto (with
>     a Xen-paravirtualized 2.6.29 kernel running as a
>     guest on Xen-3.4.0), or
> (B) Build my own initrd and use your OSR scripts
>     only after my initrd finishes.
> 
> I couldn't get (A) to work... the initrd built using
> the howto was failing very early, so I decided to
> try with (B).  I hoped that (B) would be easier because
> your code is very general to handle many different
> kinds of systems, and mine could be much more specific.
> 
> HOWEVER, I just discovered one problem with (A).
> Your mkinitrd process builds a huge (200MB) initrd
> and there appears to be a BUG IN XEN that fails
> to load large initrds (larger than about 100MB)!
> 
> Your initrd is so large because my lib/modules/2.6.29
> is very large.  If I delete that from initrd built
> using the howto, the initrd.gz is only about 24MB
> and I am able to boot and see the ATIX logo and
> it drops into the rescue shell (because I haven't
> specified the MAC-Addresses I think).  However other
> boot errors complain about modules that are missing.
> I will try to build a kernel with fewer modules and
> see how that goes.
> 
> Other feedback:
> 
> I wonder if your script detecting "distribution"
> and "shortdistribution" are correct for all versions
> of RHEL and Oracle Enterprise Linux?  I am getting
> "unknown" for both (from listparameters in the rescue
> shell), though I am booting Oracle Enterprise Linux 5
> update 2.
> 
> I also see that your test for detecting xen in xen-lib.sh
> is not very good.  You may want to test for /proc/xen
> instead of (or in addition to) /etc/xen.
> 
> And why when "Loading modules for all found network cards"
> do I get "FATAL: Module xennet not found"?  I have xen
> networking compiled into my kernel so there is no module
> for it.  Should this be fatal?
> 
> > Ok. But still we need the mac adress for detecting the nodes 
> > identity in the /etc/cluster/cluster.conf.
> 
> Is that really necessary?  Ocfs2 only requires the
> node name, not the mac address.  But I guess I can
> configure the mac address in the xen guest config file
> so I can live with this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Grimme [mailto:gr...@at...]
> > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 12:52 AM
> > To: ope...@li...
> > Cc: Dan Magenheimer
> > Subject: Re: [OSR-users] New Preview RPMs for next Release 
> > Candidate of
> > comoonics-bootimage
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday 24 April 2009 00:42:17 Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> > > Hi Marc --
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help.  I got past my rpm problems and am
> > > now much further along but have hit another roadblock.
> > >
> > > First, FYI, I am using a different approach then the
> > > RHEL5 OCFS2 Shared Root Mini Howto, because of the
> > > way that I want to use the shared root.  Specifically,
> > > I am first building and booting a root ocfs2 filesystem,
> > > using my own kernel (2.6.29) and my own initrd.img.  With
> > > this (and before I install any OSR stuff), I am able
> > > to boot it as a Xen paravirtualized guest, using
> > > the Xen kernel= and ramdisk= config options; the root
> > > disk is NOT an LVM because I don't need a /boot.  The
> > No problem with this my osr-ocfs2 cluster is running exactly 
> > the same. No LVM, 
> > direct boot via kernel and initrd. That should not be a problem.
> > > 2.6.29 kernel has CONFIG_IP_PNP and I pass in the
> > > IP address and hostname from the Xen config file.
> > > This all seems to work fine (for a single node).
> > Ok. But still we need the mac adress for detecting the nodes 
> > identity in 
> > the /etc/cluster/cluster.conf.
> > Also you might try to set the onboot flag in the cluster.conf 
> > at the nic 
> > config to "no":
> > <com_info>
> >     ..
> >     <eth name="eth0" mac="..." onboot="no"/>
> >     ..
> > </com_info>
> > I didn't test it yet (it not YET in my testcases) but I'm 
> > pretty confident it 
> > should work.
> > >
> > > Next, I install the OSR rpms directly in the running
> > > ocfs2-root guest, then shut it down.
> > Ok. so far so good.
> > >
> > > Next, I mount the ocfs2-root-disk from another guest
> > > (that also has the OSR rpms installed) and follow
> > > the howto steps to create the cdsl infrastructure
> > > and links.  Then I shut down the other guest.
> > Could you recall the exact steps and outputs?
> > >
> > > Next, I try to boot the OSR-modified ocfs2-root guest,
> > > but it has problems.  It appears that /var doesn't
> > > exist as I get many messages such as:
> > The not mouting of /var is very strange. It should put you in 
> > a rescue shell. 
> > Then type messages and send me the output.
> > >
> > > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: /var/log/dmesg: No such file or directory
> > That's just before it trys to boot. That's somehow to far advanced.
> > >
> > > and then the boot process seems to hang trying to start the
> > > System Logger.  No, it just takes a very long time and
> > > eventually I get to a login prompt.  (Or I can boot
> > > single-user mode and get the same error messages, but
> > > get to a bash prompt.)
> > >
> > > With a "ls -l /var", I see:
> > >
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 <date> /var -> cdsl.local/var
> > That's perfectly ok.
> > >
> > > (Note no leading / before cdsl.local)
> > >
> > > but "ls -ld /cdsl.local" shows it is empty.
> > That's strange.
> > >
> > > Browsing around, I see that /cluster/cdsl is populated
> > > (with subdirectories 0 ... 7 and default) and each has
> > > an etc and a var subdirectory.  /cluster/shared has
> > > a var subdirectory and a var/lib subdirectory.
> > That's again perfectly ok.-
> > >
> > > So I'm guessing that cdsl.local should somehow be
> > > linked to /cluster but isn't.  True?
> > Right but it is not liked but bind mounted. That means:
> > mount --bind /cluster/cdsl/<nodeid> /cdsl.local
> > but that's done in the initrd automatically so you should not 
> > have to bother 
> > about that.
> > >
> > > One other thing I should mention... since my cluster.conf
> > > has 8 nodes numbered 0 to 7, in the "mount --bind"
> > > command during the cdsl setup steps, I used cluster/cdsl/0
> > > instead of cluster/cdsl/1 to bind to cdsl.local.
> > How did you "use" that. That should be done automatically 
> > shouldn't it?
> > >
> > > Any ideas?  Maybe your initrd creates some necessary links
> > > and mine does not?  (I tried booting with your initrd,
> > > but my ocfs2-root failed to mount giving a kernel panic...
> > > have you tested with linux-2.6.29?  The error message
> > > "Heartbeat has to be started to mount a read-write
> > > clustered device" looks like it comes from a somewhat
> > > recent ocfs2 kernel patch I found here:
> > > 
http://www.mail-archive.com/ocf...@os.../msg00293.html
> > and I worked around it by mounting with -o heartbeat=local)
> >
> > Sorry this is so long!
> How does your /etc/cluster/cluster.conf look like?
> 
> -- 
> Gruss / Regards,
> 
> Marc Grimme
> http://www.atix.de/               http://www.open-sharedroot.org/
> 
>

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