Re: [Testbed-admins] Linux MFS - grub2 issues

[Ryan Jackson <rdjackso@flux.utah.edu>]

* Jos De Graeve <Jos.DeGraeve@intec.ugent.be> [100602 09:04]:
> Hi,
> 
> I am installing the Linux MFS and grub2 onto our testbed and am
> experiencing some issues.

Sorry for taking so long to reply.  I somehow missed your message in
my inbox.

> I got grub2 working fine with PXE but it does not want to boot our
> default image.  The default image contains a Debian 5.0 with the older
> grub bootloader.  Grub2 boots the image with the chainloader, the
> "local" grub instance inside the image launches and boots its default
> kernel.  As soon as the kernel starts booting, (and starts probing EDD)
> it halts.  When booting the node directly from disk, bypassing the pxe
> grub, the kernel loads fine.

That's odd.  I can look into this today.

> Passing edd=off on the kernel's commandline argument seems to fix this
> problem, but is there any another workaround known ?

> Grub2 also seems to have problems booting WinXP images :(

To be honest I haven't tried booting WinXP in a while.  What happens
when you try to boot a WinXP image?

> Another problem is with the Linux MFS IPOD.  It does not seem to like
> the packets send from our boss server:  "IPOD: from 10.0.174.1 rejected"

I'll look into this as well and get back to you today.