On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:13:32 +0100 Jörg Saßmannshausen <sassy-w...@sassy.formativ.net> wrote:
... > I got a second issue with these boards. I usually do the normal > PXE/NFS boot and the setup is working well for the other, older > Supermicro machines. However, with the new Intel ones, this is > crashing. We have a working pxe (ipxe) setup with this motherboard and vanilla centos-7.4. Shall we start comparing details off-list? /Peter K > The procedure is you are selecting in the boot-menu you > want to do a PXE boot and not boot from the local hard drive. > It then boots the initramfs which seems to be fine. From what I can > see, both during the boot process and from the log files of the > DHCP-server, it is getting the right IP address. > However, when the initramfs hands over to the kernel, it crashes with: > kernel panic! attempt to kill init > and you literally have to pull the plug on the machine, i.e. a hard > reset. > > The only time I have seen that was when I did not specify the NIC and > when I had two NICs, it somehow decided to use the other one. I fixed > that problem by defining the interface in the boot-arguments and also > the second NIC is not connected anyway. It also has a InfiniBand card > which does allow booting from it. Again, it is not connected so in > theory it should not matter. > > I am stuck here. I am using a 4.x kernel for the PXE boot, so a > fairly recent one. As I said, it works for the older machines but not > for the newer ones. > > I upgraded the whole PXE/NFS boot and that is not working too. > > Does anybody have any ideas here? > > Sorry for asking 2 questions in one email but as they are related I > hope that is ok. > > All the best from a sunny London > > Jörg > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
