Re: [Testbed-admins] Can not bring up the first node for a new Emulab site

["chunhui Zhang(Evan)" <chyz198@gmail.com>]

Hi,

    As of now, somehow the node(the old machine with P3 processor) is able to boot 'freebsd.newnode'(freebsd47.newnode) from Boss.(The new machine I have here with Core 2 processor could not boot it).
And it got to the prompt,
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Attempting boot of:/tftpboot/freebsd.newnode
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
\
FreeBSD/i386 (Amnesiac) (ttyv0)

login:
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At this point, as the document said, the node info such as MAC address should already reported to the Boss(which program on boss will handle the messages sent by the node and which DB tables will be filled?'new_nodes' and 'new_interfaces'? Could you point me to the location of the program?). However, when I look at https://geni-emuhost.bbn.com/newnodes_list.php3 page, there is no node list there.

Thanks a lot,
Evan Zhang

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Robert P Ricci <ricci@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

Are you looking at the serial or VGA console on these machines, and
might the image be configured to use the one you're not looking at?

Thus spake chunhui Zhang(Evan) on Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 01:18:18PM -0400:

> Hi,
>
>      I tried to bring up the first node for the new Emulab testbed here in
> BBN.  I did the following,
>
>       a) Configured a node to boot with PXE.
>       b) Configured the 'default_imagename' site variable.
>       c) Add new node type for my target machine
>       d) Follow the README in tftpboot folde: 1.Run the 'load-descriptors'
> to fill the DB.  2. Customize the freebsd.newnode, freebsd, frisbee and run
> 'prepare'
>
> Then I booted my machine and it could get the IP from "boss" and ready to go
> further, but it then hanged on the message like this
> ---------------------------
>
> Attempting boot of:/tftpboot/freebsd.newnode
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> \
> |
> ---------------------------------
>
> PS: I tried with two machine, one is a brand new machine with Intel
> Core 2 Duo 3G and another is very old machine with P3 processor.
>
> I tried both 62 and 47 images for both machines and they all result in
> the above problem.
>
>
> Any idea?
> Thank you so much,
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Evan Zhang

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