Problem Booting the Slaves

[Dave Leimbach]

There is a parameter in that crash output about RAMDISK size.  If your
machine only has 16MB I think you may be out of luck.  You need to get the
kernel, some kernel related processes, and bpslave running on those slave
nodes.  Since the kernel crashed on a paging request I would assume that
this is either the root or near the root of your problem.  That would be
my best guess anyway.

The one that comes up unavailable has 256MB of RAM which is plenty of RAM
for the ramdisks.  Scyld has an option in the beowulf distribution to run
diskless.  I assume that this requires a large ramdisk that you can't get
on the 16MB node.

Dave

On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, David Leunen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> With BeoSetup's Scyld, I assigned the nodes to the cluster by draging
> the ether-addresses, and cliked apply. Then I did 
> 
> "bpctl -S all -s reboot"
> 
> but nothing appened: the states of the nodes stayed "down". On the
> slaves, the output was:
> 
> ...
> monte: command line: panic=30 ramdisk_size=131072 apm=power-off
> monte: Loading 7 sectors of setup code
> monte: Loading kernel data at0x100000
> monte: Loaded 642144 bytes of kernel data
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 9f4d4dcb
> current->tss.cr3=00195000, %cr3=00195000
> *pde=00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU:  0
> EIP:  0010:[<c1800060>]
> EFLAGS: 00010282
> ...
> 
> after that, there are all the register and stack status, and it is
> frozen. The slaves are P200 16Ram Diskless. I tried with a double PII
> 256Ram Diskless and it turn 'unavailable' after reboot. What is wrong
> with the other ones?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David
> 
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