Sebastian Lara wrote:
Hi,
2009/9/3 Stefan Reinauer stepan@coresystems.de:
Sebastian Lara wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to revive a Linux Netwox eVelocity 2 Cluster with LinuxBIOS-1.1.7.8 and Etherboot 5.2 on compute nodes. After some trouble, I have access to a shell after node system installation over network. My problem now is that I can't get localboot to work.
What's the error?
Boot from (N)etwork (D)isk or (Q)uit? D
Probing pci disk... [IDE]LBA48 mode disk-1 78150744k cap: 2f00 Searching for image... ................................<abort> Probing pci disk... [IDE] Probing isa disk...
<sleep>
Etherboot searches for an ELF header in the first 8K. I don't really know how can I do this. I had tried to use a ELF image of the kernel installed in the node but it doesn't work.
I think you need to run "mkelfimage" on a Linux kernel in order to get it booted and dump that directly on the first partition
I need to know if I can re-burn the BIOS with a newer version of coreboot or something else, so I can use PXE and use GRUB for booting from local.
What mainboard type is that? Can you post a boot log from serial console?
It's there some way to know the mainboard type without open a node case? Get permission to do that may take some time.
if you can run "nvramtool" from a current coreboot tree on that node, it can dump the fields
Here is the boot log:
Found ELF candiate at offset 0 Loading Etherboot version: 5.2.4js1 Dropping non PT_LOAD segment New segment addr 0x20000 size 0x41e65 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x993a (cleaned up) New segment addr 0x20000 size 0x41e65 offset 0xc0 filesize 0x993a Loading Segment: addr: 0x000000007ffc4000 memsz: 0x0000000000010000 filesz: 0x000000000000993a Clearing Segment: addr: 0x000000007ffcd93a memsz: 0x00000000000066c6 Loading Segment: addr: 0x0000000000030000 memsz: 0x0000000000031e65 filesz: 0x0000000000000000 Clearing Segment: addr: 0x0000000000030000 memsz: 0x0000000000031e65 Jumping to boot code at 0x20000 ROM segment 0x0000 length 0x0000 reloc 0x00020000 CPU 2486 Mhz Etherboot 5.2.4js1 (GPL) http://etherboot.org ELF64 ELF with TFTP SLAM LACP for [EEPRO100][E1000][3C90X][TG3][IDE] Relocating _text from: [00029930,00063080) to [7fec68b0,7ff00000) �Probing pci nic... (D)isk or (Q)uit? [tg3-5702X]Ethernet addr: 00:50:45:5C:34:1A Tigon3 [partno(BCM95702A20) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCI:66MHz:32-bit) Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. Searching for server (DHCP)... ...Me: 10.1.255.254, Server: 10.1.1.1, Gateway 10.1.1.1 Loading 10.1.1.1:vmlinuz.vo ...(ELF)... ................
Does booting over the network work?