Re: [Testbed-admins] New Testbed/Hardware setup problems

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

Jeff,
     Did you ever get this problem you were having resolved?  we are
also getting the "panic: hashinit: bad elements" error.  there seams
to be some indications this is related to ACPI, but I haven't found a
lot of help about that yet, I was hoping you got your problem resolved
and could shed some light on this.

I am following the instructions on these pages:

http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/install/mfs.html
http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/MFSInstall
http://www.emulab.net/downloads/generic-image-README.txt

and am currently on step "E. Testing the image"

Is there a better set of instructions someplace?  is ACPI dealt with elsewhere?

Thanks,
--Ben

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I'm still stuck here, though I am now getting a useful message, I think.

So, after a little digging, it looks like this starts to boot, records:
CPU correctly
Memory (gives 655360 with 4g ram, and lists available as 114688, in
both cases says 0 MB in parentheses)

Then:

panic: hashinit : bad elements
KDB : enter: panic
[thread pid 0 tid 0 ]
Stopped at    kdb_enter+0x2b: nop
db>

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd appreciate them, I'm pretty stuck.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Leigh Stoller <stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
>> After you import any of the combination images from utah, enter the
>> info about them into the database, and then edit the site variable
>> general/default_imagename to be one of them.
>>
>> Then, as a fresh pair of eyes, figure out the best place to put this
>> in the installation documentation ;-)
>
> It is mentioned here:
>
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/install/mfs.html
>
> but this is obviously not the right place, since so far everyone doing
> an install has missed it. It is also at the bottom of this page:
>
> http://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/MFSInstall
>
> but this page is poorly integrated into the instruction sequence for a
> new emulab.
>
> Comments welcome, but it would be greate if someone else fixed this.
>
> Lbs
>
>