freebsd-cluster Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1

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Hang, or kernel not found or ... ?

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html
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On Feb 23, 2005, at 1:00 PM, freebsd-cluster-request at freebsd.org wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:59:41 -0800 (PST)
> From: Maya Haridasan <mayaunb at yahoo.com>
> Subject: booting Freebsd 4.10
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> Hi,
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> I'm setting up a testbed in a cluster of blade servers and I've been 
> trying to boot freebsd 4.10 on the nodes. They hang immediately after 
> BTX loader version 1.0. I believe this might have something to do with 
> the serial console (the nodes don't have a serial console). Would 
> anyone have any clues about what this could be? Else, would you have 
> any suggestions as to how I could try to "debug" the problem - any 
> files that I might try to modify to test if the boot process goes 
> further?
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> Thanks a lot,
> Maya
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> On Feb 22, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Maya Haridasan wrote:
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>> I'm setting up a testbed in a cluster of blade servers and I've been
>> trying to boot freebsd 4.10 on the nodes. They hang immediately after
>> BTX loader version 1.0. I believe this might have something to do with
>> the serial console (the nodes don't have a serial console). Would
>> anyone have any clues about what this could be? Else, would you have
>> any suggestions as to how I could try to "debug" the problem - any
>> files that I might try to modify to test if the boot process goes
>> further?
>
> If it's an IBM/Intel blade server I may be having the same problem you
> are:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/
> 011944.html
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/
> 012161.html
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> I haven't tried 4.10, 5.2.1 works for me if you do a PXE boot with
> scripted sysinstall. 5.3 I cannot get to go anywhere.
>
> --Paul
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