On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 14:58 -0500, Joe Landman wrote: > David Mathog wrote: > >> What's got me and the IT guys stumped is that while the compute nodes > > boot via PXE from the head node without trouble on the NetGear, they > > barf with the SMC. To be specific, after the initial boot with a > > minimal Linux kernel, there is a "fatal error" with "timeout waiting for > > getfile" when the compute node attempts to download the provisioning > > image from head. However, when they were running Rocks before I > > arrived, the cluster worked fine with the SMC switch. > > Wondering aloud whether or not the ethernet driver has been correctly > included in the kernel/initrd for the PXE booted image. I've > seen/experienced this before, PXE works fine, the kernel boots, and is > missing the ethernet driver.
Or the new distro you are trying enumerates the ethernet devices differently and it's trying to load the getfile from a different unconnected ethernet port. That's fairly common as well. It could even be worse that than in that the enumeration could be non-deterministic to really confuse you. Ashley, -- Ashley Pittman, Bath, UK. Padb - A parallel job inspection tool for cluster computing http://padb.pittman.org.uk _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
