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Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image
Something I just noticed in the output that I had not before is that
the boot loader appears to be reinvoked, either restarting or jumping
to itself somehow. ISI/UCB had a problem like this long ago as well,
I think it was even on Sun machines.
Keith Sklower, do you remember how/if it got fixed or how you worked
around it?
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 05:17:32PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> No, the FreeBSD 6.4 does not work either. The same error happens again.
> Please refer to the attached picture.
>
> And it looks I can't login the Fedora 8 locally, by using the password
> hash from the BSD master.passwd file into the linux shadow file. How
> could I login locally, if I want to upgrade the kernel?
>
> By the way, may I ask how imageunzip decide the size of partition 1 and
> 2 on a local disk? I am a little curious about default partition size.
> Because we have RAID array of disks, so I want to make clear how much
> disk space left in each partition. Thanks.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Cheng Cui
> . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hibler [mailto:mike@flux.utah.edu]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:18 PM
> To: Cheng Cui
> Cc: 'Mike Hibler'
> Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic
> Image
>
> The WARNING is a bogus check in imageunzip that has since been fixed.
> The bad check has no other effect than printing out the warning, so it
> is harmless.
>
> I put together a FreeBSD 6.4 GENERIC image, lets see how that works.
> You
> can download it from:
>
> http://www.emulab.net/downloads/FBSD64-GENERIC.ndz
>
> Load that into your first partition and lets see if it boots.
>
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:01:25PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> > Hello Mike,
> >
> > Unfortunately, the FC6 does not work either. No matter how I change
> the
> > disk label and grub booting path, the part:2 booting just hang there.
> > You can refer to my attached picture.
> >
> > So I moved on to the "FEDORA8-STD.ndz" that could be downloaded from
> > emulab.net, and this time, it boots up as it should be. However, I
> > cannot login locally from the disk. I should have followed the
> > customization instructions to just change the root passwd locally.
> But,
> > wired... I don't know why I can't use my host keys to ssh or login
> with
> > root locally.
> >
> > Additionally, would you please explain this warning? Thanks.
> >
> > %sudo ssh pc1 imageunzip -s 2 - /dev/$DSK <
> > /usr/testbed/images/FEDORA8-STD.ndz
> > WARNING: requested zeroing in slice mode, will NOT zero outside of
> > slice!
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Cheng Cui
> > . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Hibler [mailto:mike@flux.utah.edu]
> > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 11:35 AM
> > To: Cheng Cui
> > Cc: testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic
> > Image
> >
> > There may be a bug in the older 6.2 boot code. Note that this is the
> > boot
> > code that is on the disk and isn't (well, shouldn't be) related to the
> > pxeboot.
> >
> > Go ahead and make sure the Linux side of your image boots and
> customize
> > that
> > (part:2). If that works, then we can go ahead and drop in a newer
> > version
> > of FreeBSD on the first partition.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:54:07PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I met a new problem after I adapted the "new pxeboot62a" and
> > > "tftpboot-kernels-7.2" in the process of Customizing the Generic
> Image
> > > of FULL=FBSD62+FC6.
> > >
> > > I have a server box Sun Fire x4240 (Adaptec RAID controller) as an
> > > experiment node. It has nVidia MCP55 network ports so it's better to
> > use
> > > "tftpboot-kernels-7.2" in FreeBSD.newnode, FreeBSD and Frisbee to
> load
> > > the "if_nfe" module. Now, after followed the instructions of
> customize
> > > the generic image, I get a load error in the booting process of
> > > "part:1".
> > >
> > > Please refer to the attached picture as the error message. And my
> > fstab
> > > and loader.conf are as follows:
> > >
> > > ### edit /mnt/etc/fstab
> > > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump
> > > Pass#
> > > /dev/aacd0s1b none swap sw 0
> > > 0
> > > /dev/aacd0s1a / ufs rw 1
> > > 1
> > > /dev/aacd0s1f /usr ufs rw 2
> > > 2
> > > /dev/aacd0s1e /var ufs rw 2
> > > 2
> > > /dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0
> > > 0
> > > md /tmp mfs
> > > rw,async,nodev,nosuid,-s256m 0 0
> > >
> > > ### edit /mnt/boot/loader.conf
> > > *********************************
> > > pc1# less /mnt/boot/default/loader.conf
> > > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> > > console="comconsole"f (press RETURN)
> > >
> > > #
> > > # No stupid menu
> > > #
> > > beastie_disable="YES"
> > >
> > > # wireless interfaces
> > > if_ath_load="YES"
> > >
> > > ## want ACPI...
> > > acpi_load="YES"
> > > hint.acpi.0.disabled=0
> > >
> > > # ...or no ACPI...
> > > #hint.acpi.0.disabled=1
> > > #loader.acpi_disabled_by_user=1
> > >
> > > # enable ASF
> > > #hw.bge.allow_asf=1
> > > #
> > > # load Myricom Myri10GE adapter driver permernently
> > > if_mxge_load="YES"
> > > mxge_ethp_z8e_load="YES"
> > > mxge_eth_z8e_load="YES"
> > > ******************************
> > >
> > > Please correct me if I made some mistake. Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > >
> > > Cheng Cui
> > > . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803
> > >
> >
> >
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