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

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu> wrote:

I will jump in the middle here, please excuse me if you have already answered
any of my questions!

In one of your earlier messages you had some text that "came out", was

that on the VGA or serial line? It doesn't matter, as long as we have a
console that works.

Do I understand correctly that the 47 MFS boots on the PIII node but the
62 version does not? Strange...

No matter, let's go back to the 62 MFS, the 47 is a loser long term. Verify
that you have the right console selected in
/tftpboot/freebsd.newnode/boot/loader.conf.orig

By changing the option 'console="comconsole"' to 'console="vidconsole"' in loader.conf.orig solved my problem!
Thank you so much! BTW, where can I find the document talking about this configuration?

Evan Zhang

Run "./prepare" in that directory just to make sure any changes are in place.
Try to boot the PIII node into the newnode MFS and verify that the machine
stops generating output to the console, and that it does not generate any
network traffic (look at boss:/usr/testbed/log/dhcpd.log and see if dhcpd got
a request). Is this the situation you are in?

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 05:47:58PM -0400, chunhui Zhang(Evan) wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Leigh Stoller <stoller@flux.utah.edu>wrote:
>
> > BTW, I downloaded the MFSs from
> >> http://www.emulab.net/downloads/tftpboot-latest.tar.gz. And also I
> >> mounted the 6.2 freebsd.newnode and looked at the stuff inside. I
> >> found there is code related to 'role' in newclient script, but that
> >> script in 4.7 newnode do not have. Am I looked at the right place?
> >>
> >
> > Well, that is definitely a screwup on our part! Sorry about that, but
> > I guess no one has tried the 4.7 MFSs in a long time.
> >
> > So, I think you can grab newclient from your (src) install directory
> > (or from the 6.2 MFS) and put it on the 4.7 MFS. Lets hope that works.
> >
>
> I tried this method but it doesn't work. newclient from src require some lib
> which 4.7 MFS doesn't have.
> So I think it is better to work with the new MFS, As you suggested last
> time, the possible reason why my new
> machine can not boot into 'freebsd.newnode' and 'freebsd' MFS could be the
> driver problem. Could you
> help me to figure out what kind of driver problem it is and how to debug
> this issue?
>
> My target machine 1 is:
> Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 3.00GHz
> Memory: 8192MB
> Hard Disk: ST3500418AS 500GB
>
> My target machine 2 is:
> Processor: Intel Pentium III 933MHz
> Memory: 512 MB SDRAM
> Hard Disk: ST380011A 80GB
>
> I also notice that even the freebsd.newnode can not get to the login prompt
> (both above machines), but they did report themselves to Boss and I can
> see a new node there at 'Add Testbed Nodes' web page.
>
> Thanks,
> Evan Zhang

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