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

[David Hadley]

Perfect!!

Thanks Dirk!

David Hadley
Division of Community Health Sciences
St George's, University of London
Tel: 020 8725 1312


Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 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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