Re: [SSI-users] gPXE booting node hangs after "loading initrd.........ready."

[Scott W. <sc...@sl...>]

> mkinitrd -o /tftpboot/initrd 2.6.12-ssi-686-smp
> cpio: initrd/lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 not created: newer or same age version
> exists
> cpio: initrd/lib/libcluster.so.0 not created: newer or same age version
> exists
> 6488+0 records in
> 6488+0 records out
> 6643712 bytes (6.6 MB) copied, 0.433489 s, 15.3 MB/s
> mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
> cpio: ./dev/ida: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> cpio: ./dev/scsi: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> cpio: ./dev/ide: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> cpio: ./dev/mapper: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> cpio: ./dev/md: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> cpio: ./dev/cciss: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> 10189 blocks
> /tftpboot/initrd:        69.5% -- replaced with /tftpboot/initrd.gz

Looks sane enough.

> Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)

> This is a 4-cpu machine and has always ran with a 686 kernel in the past so
> I'm not convinced its a kernel issue, tho I am no expert.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Usually I see things go wrong different ways.  You get the usual dmesg
startup scroll and then it can't find the NIC it was added to the
cluster with, or gPXE fails to bring the card online and netboot at
all, or a few other things.

I don't have a good lead on this one, but tell me about your
bootloader setup on the initnode, the first machine.  Are you using
grub?  What does the grub.conf look like?

Even if you aren't booting the initnode with grub, ssi-ksync expects a
correct grub.conf and uses that to generate the netboot materials.
But if the kernel went over, I'd at least expect it to try to boot it,
even if it didn't make it very far.

Maybe grab an old version of your favorite distro from about the same
era as the 2.6.12 kernel and try to boot that?  In theory, all of the
really important hardware should be back compat.

Sorry I'm not much use here...

Good luck,
-scott

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> Shane
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