Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image

["Cheng Cui" <ccui1@tigers.lsu.edu>]

Hello Mike,

Do you have a FreeBSD 7.2 GENERIC image? It looks I could use FreeBSD7.2
booted by FreeBSD based pxeboot locally. 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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