[Quantian-general] openMosix not working with first node in cluster

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

David,

On 19 February 2007 at 13:50, David Hadley wrote:
| Dear All,
| 
| I've got a small cluster of 5 PCs running Quantian, the first node loads
| the latest Quantian ISO from harddrive using a clusterKnoppix "boot" CD.
| The other 4 PCs then network boot via PXE. The network boot machines
| work perfectly, but the first machine (running the KNOPPIX openMosix
| terminal server) does not even see itself in the openMosix application.

I think I misunderstood your problem at first. So the machine boots kernel
2.5, you see that it is the openMosix-enabled kernel, but it doesn't 'appear
in the oM tools' ?
 
| I have read in the archives of this group that there is a known problem
| with openMosix and the 2.6 kernel (which I've read is the default boot
| option for the latest Quantian release). I have tried the following
| commands at the boot prompt with the same effect:
| knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hda2/quantian.iso
| linux24 bootfrom=/dev/hda2/quantian.iso

That second one is correct and needed to boot the oM-enabled 2.4 kernel.
 
| Is there something that I've missed out causing the loss of functionality?

You may have falled into a little bug trap with the initialization /
startup.  As I recall, all will be well if you simply do a (as root)

	/etc/init.d/openmosix stop
	/etc/init.d/openmosix start

and then openMosixview will show it.  On the PXE-booted machines the init
script is correct...

Hope this helps, Dirk

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