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

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

I got to the point that,
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Attempting boot of: /tftpboot/frisbee
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel text= ............................................etc
/boot/acpi.ko text= ..........................................etc

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel]...
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Setting hostname: .
Emulab looking for control net among: de0 xl0 ...
xl0: link state changed to UP
Emulab control net is de0
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Starting local daemons: Playing Frisbee ...
Authenticated IPOD enabled from 192.168.56.3/255.255.255.255
Unable to get address for loading image
Failed to load disk, dropping to login prompt at Wed Aug  5 17:36:44 MDT 2009
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FreeBSD/i386 (pc1) (console)

login:
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Above message tells me the control net is de0 which is not true. xl0 is the one I used as control NIC and the DB also have the knowledge that. My node was booted from xl0 and de0 do not have pxe boot ability at all.  Then I logged in through the dropped prompt and did 'cat /etc/testbed/controlif', it showed 'xl0'. I traced through the source code and find out 'tmcc loadinfo' gave me nothing. I am not sure how to debug this issue further. So I am wondering do you see the similar issue before? And any suggestions?

Thanks a lot,
Evan Zhang

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:42 PM, chunhui Zhang(Evan) <chyz198@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:40:45PM -0400, chunhui Zhang(Evan) wrote:
> 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
>

How much of your problem did it solve?  Will the MFS boot on the newer node?

 Yes, all three MFSs can boot now.

Re: documentation, I thought that console config was in the README for the MFS
but it isn't!  We need to fix that.

 
Evan