problem when booting the salve machine from floppy disk

David davidge at 1stchina.com
Tue Mar 20 00:27:27 PST 2001


Hello everyone,

I've instaled Scyld Beowulf front-end machine & salve machine
but there are some failed notice in the salve machine log and
It seemed that the salve machine can not share in the fond-end 
machine's work.

below is the salve machine's log
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node_up: Setting system clock.
node_up: TODO set interface netmask.
node_up: Configuring loopback interface.
setup_fs: Configuring node filesystems...
setup_fs: Using /etc/beowulf/fstab
setup_fs: Checking /dev/ram3 (type=ext2)...
setup_fs: Hmmm...This appears to be a ramdisk. 
setup_fs: I'm going to try to try checking the filesystem (fsck) anyway.
setup_fs: If it is a RAM disk the following will fail harmlessly.
e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/ram3 is mounted.

Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/ram3

setup_fs: FSCK failure. (OK for RAM disks)
setup_fs: Creating ext2 on /dev/ram3...
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/ram3 is mounted.

setup_fs: Mounting /dev/ram3 on /rootfs//... (type=ext2; options=defaults)
grep: BProc move failed.
modprobe: Can't locate module ext2
bpsh: Child process exit abnormally.
Failed to mount /dev/ram3 on /.
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Anyone can tell me what make this occurred and how to solve
this question?

Thanks.



Sincerely yours,
David Ge <davidge at 1stchina.com>
Room 604, No. 168, Qinzhou Road, Shanghai.
Phone: (021)34140621-12 
2001-03-20 16:06:38





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