Re: [Testbed-admins] Can't bring up the first node

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

I did put together a 7.2 kernel and made sure it worked with the MFSes.
Give that a try:

  http://www.emulab.net/downloads/tftpboot-kernels-7.2.tar.gz

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:10:33PM -0400, Espinola, Derek wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> I did try 8GB and even down to 4GB of memory, same end result. I also tried the 6.4 kernel with the correct acpi.ko using 16GB/8GB and it crashes at  this now:
> 
> Real memory = 655360 ( 0MB )
> Avail memory = 1154688 ( 0MB )
> ACPI APIC Table: <DELL PE_SC3 >
> Panic : hashinit : bad elements
> Uptime: 1s
> 
> -Derek
> 
> On 8/12/09 7:20 PM, "Mike Hibler" <mike@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:01:31PM -0600, Mike Hibler wrote:
> > So I was unable to reproduce this.  But our pe1950 only has 8GB of RAM in it.
> > If you are feeling daring, you could try to remove half the memory from your
> > machine, and we can see if the problem is related.  I doubt it though.
> >
> > Tomorrow, I will see if I can temporarily snag another 8GB out of the 2950
> > we have.
> >
> 
> All the memory slots are full, so I could not add more memory.
> If you cannot try with 8GB, then we will move on.  We have to fix the
> problem one way or the other since I doubt you would want to remove 8GB
> from all your machines just so that our old kernel would boot!
> 
> When you tried the new 6.4 kernel, you were using the older ACPI module.
> Try extracting both the kernel and acpi.ko from here:
> 
> /usr/testbed/www/downloads/tftpboot-kernels-6.4.tar.gz
> 
> into your /tftpboot/freebsd.newnode/boot directory.  Make sure the ACPI
> module gets loaded when the kernel does.  In the meantime, I am going to
> see if a 7.2 kernel will boot with the current MFS.
> 
> Ultimately, we will be moving to a Linux-based MFS environment that we are
> testing now, so you might get to be the first external test case!
>