Re: [Testbed-admins] MFS images, Generic Images, and customization

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

It is in "reloading"  I'm guessing it needs to be in "hwdown"...  do I
move the node into hwdown with nfree? or is there another way?

So what do I lose by using pxeboot.emu-null instead of pxeboot.emu-sio
or pxeboot.emu-vga?


Thanks,
-ben


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On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Leigh Stoller<stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
>>  I loaded the GENERIC images from utah and went through the editing
>> process to customize these.  when we go to try to reboot them and test
>> login the PXE MFS image no longer asks to go into interactive mode
>> "Type a key for interactive mode (quick, quick!)" doesn't show up.  so
>> we can never typew the command to go to "part: 1".
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> Hi Ben. Quick question; what experiment is the node allocated to?
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>> 3. Do I have to boot from PXE, then go to interactive mode to get the
>> OS to come up and connect to emulab, or can I bypass PXE and force a
>> boot to the C: drive  then choose from the F1 FreeBSD F2 Linux menu?
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> Not sure about this. Locally we change the MBR to force the node back
> into pxeboot if that fails for some reason (network down). I am not
> sure if that is in the GENERIC image.
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> Mike?
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