I thought maybe some of you cluster people might have seen this.
I have a brand new machine that will be the frontend of a cluster. It has a 3ware 9650 12-port RAID controller with 12 1TB drives attached. I used the "Boot Volume" feature in the RAID controller to make an 80GB boot volume. I install CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on this and everything installed fine, except ... When I boot the newly installed machine it stops in the grub prompt. If I type by hand the commands in /etc/grub.conf (which I saw by booting from a rescue CD), the first command "root (hd0,0)" shows that an ext3 partition was recognized, as it should. However, when I enter the "kernel ...." command, I get the following error message: Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS What's weird about this is that the root file system starts on cylinder 1, as confirmed by the fdisk command. This is using a brand new SuperMicro X7SBE motherboard with the newest BIOS. What's even weirder is that the integrator that I purchased the system from somehow managed to install CentOS 5. I saw it boot the first time I turned on the system. I deliberately wiped it out. Needless to say, I have a message in to them. Any ideas could cause this? Cordially, -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
