From rojee at bigpond.net.au  Thu Jun 10 07:28:51 2004
From: rojee at bigpond.net.au (The Salisbury's)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:28:51 +1000
Subject: [cAos] Critical Information:  up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1   is older than
 up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1.  unknown GPG signature
Message-ID: <40C87023.8020005@bigpond.net.au>

Hi all

This maybe very common problem with centos.3.1.  updating with "up2date"

IE: GPG signature  problems when  updating from the NET.  using 
up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 (installed) as /usr/bin/up2date & 
/usr/sbin/up2date

The  "Critical Information"  information tab also seems to be confused.

what is true:
up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1   is older than  up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1.
or
up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1   is older than  up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1.

Is there a fix??

many thanks
Roger Salisbury
Sydney Australia

the messages are below in italics

Critical Information:
   Your system currently has up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 installed, but
   the latest available version is up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1. It is 
recommended   that you upgrade to the latest up2date before updating any 
other packages.
 
INVALID GPG signature:
xxxxxxx.rpm    is signed with an unknown GPG signature. Continue?




From lance at uklinux.net  Thu Jun 10 03:37:27 2004
From: lance at uklinux.net (Lance Davis)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:37:27 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [cAos] Critical Information:  up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1   is
 older than up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1.  unknown GPG signature
In-Reply-To: <40C87023.8020005@bigpond.net.au>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406101137040.28510-100000@s1.uklinux.net>

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, The Salisbury's wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> This maybe very common problem with centos.3.1.  updating with "up2date"
> 
> IE: GPG signature  problems when  updating from the NET.  using 
> up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 (installed) as /usr/bin/up2date & 
> /usr/sbin/up2date
> 
> The  "Critical Information"  information tab also seems to be confused.
> 
> what is true:
> up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1   is older than  up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1.
> or
> up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1   is older than  up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1.
> 
> Is there a fix??

Yes - we need to implement the up2date from fedora ...

Regards
Lance

> 
> many thanks
> Roger Salisbury
> Sydney Australia
> 
> the messages are below in italics
> 
> Critical Information:
>    Your system currently has up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 installed, but
>    the latest available version is up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1. It is 
> recommended   that you upgrade to the latest up2date before updating any 
> other packages.
>  
> INVALID GPG signature:
> xxxxxxx.rpm    is signed with an unknown GPG signature. Continue?
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> 

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From rojee at bigpond.net.au  Thu Jun 10 04:10:13 2004
From: rojee at bigpond.net.au (The Salisburys)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:10:13 +1000
Subject: [cAos] Critical Information:  up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1   is older than up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1.  unknown GPG signature
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406101137040.28510-100000@s1.uklinux.net>
Message-ID: <007c01c44edb$80edd0d0$1000000a@rogersxp>

I found the prob
all i needed to do was :

#rpm --import /mnt/cdrom/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3

BTW
is there a link to browse the list online?

if not I will have to amend my subscription to get emails to my inbox

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lance Davis" <lance at uklinux.net>
To: <caos at caosity.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [cAos] Critical Information: up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 is
older than up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1. unknown GPG signature


> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, The Salisbury's wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > This maybe very common problem with centos.3.1.  updating with "up2date"
> >
> > IE: GPG signature  problems when  updating from the NET.  using
> > up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 (installed) as /usr/bin/up2date &
> > /usr/sbin/up2date
> >
> > The  "Critical Information"  information tab also seems to be confused.
> >
> > what is true:
> > up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1   is older than  up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1.
> > or
> > up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1   is older than  up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1.
> >
> > Is there a fix??
>
> Yes - we need to implement the up2date from fedora ...
>
> Regards
> Lance
>
> >
> > many thanks
> > Roger Salisbury
> > Sydney Australia
> >
> > the messages are below in italics
> >
> > Critical Information:
> >    Your system currently has up2date-4.2.16-1.centos.3.1 installed, but
> >    the latest available version is up2date-4.2.5-1.centos.3.1. It is
> > recommended   that you upgrade to the latest up2date before updating any
> > other packages.
> >
> > INVALID GPG signature:
> > xxxxxxx.rpm    is signed with an unknown GPG signature. Continue?
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > cAos mailing list
> > cAos at caosity.org
> > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> >
>
> -- 
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>
> _______________________________________________
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From greg at runlevelzero.net  Thu Jun 10 12:04:29 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:04:29 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Re: [Centos] How to send in donations via check? and some other suggestions.
In-Reply-To: <40C89F54.5040509@pacbell.net>
References: <40C89F54.5040509@pacbell.net>
Message-ID: <20040610190429.GB21472@runlevelzero.net>

Great news regarding the donations.

I have partnered the cAos foundation with an organization that manages this
for us called Kintera. You can donate by credit card or paypal account there.
Info at:

  http://caosity.org/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=90&op=page&SubMenu=

("Contribute to cAos")

If you need to send a check, I can give you the information directly (I just
have not published yet) to the PO Box. Email me off list and I will send you
the info. (This will be put on the site soon)

Also, good advice as to publish the wants and needs of the foundation. I will
do that shortly.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:50:12AM -0700, Mike told me:
> Greetings.
> 
> I have just successfully updated a RH-9 file server to CentOS-3.1. I'm 
> VERY impressed.  I have a client who has 4 Redhat servers (1 x 7.3 and 3 
> x 9.0) that I would like to migrate to CentOS-3.1.
> 
> Question: My client is willing to send a donation for these boxes but 
> they just want to send you (caosity.org) a check that will cover the 
> next couple of years.
> 
> Who do we make the check out to?  Where do we send the check?
> 
> And if a bulk donation via check is OK, then please publish the payee 
> information on the website.
> 
> Another suggestion...
> 
> Under the "Contribute to the CaOS Foundation", I think it might be 
> useful to specifically list the current help or tasks wanted/needed for 
> the foundation.
> 
> Just my $0.10 worth ($0.02 adjusted for inflation).
> 
> Michael Chinn
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

-- 
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http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From greg at runlevelzero.net  Fri Jun 11 10:09:35 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:09:35 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Linux World Expo 2004 in SF
Message-ID: <20040611170935.GC28546@runlevelzero.net>

The cAos Foundation and hosted projects have been granted a booth in the Dot
Org Pavilion of Linux World Expo in SF this August.

If you are a developer or contributor of the project and would like to help
staff the both, please send me a private email so we can coordinate.

I don't have the actual numbers of Exhibitor badges that we can get yet, but I
would assume it is not many. This means it is first come first serve to
receive a booth duty free pass.

BTW, only people who can dedicate the entire show time including an extra day 
before and possibly after the show for setup and tear-down (thus August 1-6) 
should consider volunteering.

Thanks.
-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From royk at pixiehost.com  Fri Jun 11 11:05:46 2004
From: royk at pixiehost.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:05:46 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
Message-ID: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com>

Hi all,

Just curious on how CentOS security updates are being handled. I noticed
that you guys released update 2 not too long ago, but do you guys plan
to release security updates once it becomes available or wait and
release it as a batch like update 2 ?


-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  Roy Kartadinata
  Pixie Internet Services

  "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
reboot..."
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


From jrw at nplus1.net  Fri Jun 11 11:06:43 2004
From: jrw at nplus1.net (Jacob Robert Wilkins)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:06:43 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com>
Message-ID: <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net>

Security updates are usually released within 24hrs of when RH releases
them.

Subscribe to the centos mailing list, email concerning the updates are
sent there.

jrw

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:05:46AM -0700, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just curious on how CentOS security updates are being handled. I noticed
> that you guys released update 2 not too long ago, but do you guys plan
> to release security updates once it becomes available or wait and
> release it as a batch like update 2 ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  Roy Kartadinata
>  Pixie Internet Services
> 
>  "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
> reboot..."
> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos


From royk at pixiehost.com  Fri Jun 11 11:13:00 2004
From: royk at pixiehost.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:13:00 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com> <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net>
Message-ID: <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com>

I checked caos-security-announce archive and its still empty, well 
except for a test email. Which is why I asked.


Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote:

> Security updates are usually released within 24hrs of when RH releases
> them.
> 
> Subscribe to the centos mailing list, email concerning the updates are
> sent there.
> 
> jrw
> 
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:05:46AM -0700, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Just curious on how CentOS security updates are being handled. I noticed
>>that you guys released update 2 not too long ago, but do you guys plan
>>to release security updates once it becomes available or wait and
>>release it as a batch like update 2 ?
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>> Roy Kartadinata
>> Pixie Internet Services
>>
>> "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
>>reboot..."
>>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>>_______________________________________________
>>cAos mailing list
>>cAos at caosity.org
>>http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> 
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  Roy Kartadinata
  Pixie Internet Services

  "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
reboot..."
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


From jrw at nplus1.net  Fri Jun 11 11:18:52 2004
From: jrw at nplus1.net (Jacob Robert Wilkins)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:18:52 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com> <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net> <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com>
Message-ID: <20040611181852.GB15675@nplus1.net>

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:13:00AM -0700, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> I checked caos-security-announce archive and its still empty, well 
> except for a test email. Which is why I asked.

Keep in mind, that list would cover announcments for the cAos
distribution. You wouldn't find anything CentOS related there.

jrw


From royk at pixiehost.com  Fri Jun 11 11:24:43 2004
From: royk at pixiehost.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:24:43 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <20040611181852.GB15675@nplus1.net>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com> <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net> <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com> <20040611181852.GB15675@nplus1.net>
Message-ID: <40C9F8EB.3020302@pixiehost.com>

So basically for CentOS updates, just rely on RHEL updates announcement 
then ?


Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:13:00AM -0700, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> 
>>I checked caos-security-announce archive and its still empty, well 
>>except for a test email. Which is why I asked.
> 
> 
> Keep in mind, that list would cover announcments for the cAos
> distribution. You wouldn't find anything CentOS related there.
> 
> jrw
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  Roy Kartadinata
  Pixie Internet Services

  "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
reboot..."
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


From mailing-lists at hughesjr.com  Fri Jun 11 11:29:10 2004
From: mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:29:10 -0500
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <40C9F8EB.3020302@pixiehost.com>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com>
	 <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net> <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com>
	 <20040611181852.GB15675@nplus1.net>  <40C9F8EB.3020302@pixiehost.com>
Message-ID: <1086978550.9751.63.camel@CentOS-31>

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:24, Roy Kartadinata wrote:

> So basically for CentOS updates, just rely on RHEL updates announcement 
> then ?
> 
> 

Lance Davis normally posts to the Centos list when there is an update
... subscribe to the Centos list here:

http://caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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From mailing-lists at hughesjr.com  Fri Jun 11 11:31:37 2004
From: mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:31:37 -0500
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <40C9F8EB.3020302@pixiehost.com>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com>
	 <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net> <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com>
	 <20040611181852.GB15675@nplus1.net>  <40C9F8EB.3020302@pixiehost.com>
Message-ID: <1086978697.9751.65.camel@CentOS-31>

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:24, Roy Kartadinata wrote:

> So basically for CentOS updates, just rely on RHEL updates announcement 
> then ?
> 

Or Lance posts to the Centos-devel list at:

http://caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel

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From royk at pixiehost.com  Fri Jun 11 11:35:46 2004
From: royk at pixiehost.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:35:46 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <1086978697.9751.65.camel@CentOS-31>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com>	 <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net> <40C9F62C.3050401@pixiehost.com>	 <20040611181852.GB15675@nplus1.net>  <40C9F8EB.3020302@pixiehost.com> <1086978697.9751.65.camel@CentOS-31>
Message-ID: <40C9FB82.7080407@pixiehost.com>

Gotcha .. thanks

Johnny Hughes wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:24, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> 
>>/So basically for CentOS updates, just rely on RHEL updates announcement 
>>then ?
>>/
>>
> Or Lance posts to the Centos-devel list at:
> 
> http://caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
> 
> - Johnny Hughes

-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
  Roy Kartadinata
  Pixie Internet Services

  "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
reboot..."
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


From akonstam at trinity.edu  Fri Jun 11 13:46:39 2004
From: akonstam at trinity.edu (akonstam at trinity.edu)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:46:39 -0500
Subject: [cAos] Security updates
In-Reply-To: <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net>
References: <40C9F47A.7010107@pixiehost.com> <20040611180643.GA15675@nplus1.net>
Message-ID: <20040611204639.GB17493@Moof.cs.trinity.edu>

I was unaware their was a separate list since I get both postings from
the same mailing address.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 02:06:43PM -0400, Jacob Robert Wilkins wrote:
> Security updates are usually released within 24hrs of when RH releases
> them.
> 
> Subscribe to the centos mailing list, email concerning the updates are
> sent there.
> 
> jrw
> 
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:05:46AM -0700, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just curious on how CentOS security updates are being handled. I noticed
> > that you guys released update 2 not too long ago, but do you guys plan
> > to release security updates once it becomes available or wait and
> > release it as a batch like update 2 ?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> >  Roy Kartadinata
> >  Pixie Internet Services
> > 
> >  "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear Windows 
> > reboot..."
> > +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> > _______________________________________________
> > cAos mailing list
> > cAos at caosity.org
> > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

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-------------------------------------------
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Trinity University
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telephone: (210)-999-7484
email:akonstam at trinity.edu


From lance at uklinux.net  Fri Jun 11 14:58:50 2004
From: lance at uklinux.net (Lance Davis)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 22:58:50 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [cAos] Linux World Expo 2004 in SF
In-Reply-To: <20040611170935.GC28546@runlevelzero.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406112258090.28197-100000@s1.uklinux.net>

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Greg Kurtzer wrote:

> The cAos Foundation and hosted projects have been granted a booth in the Dot
> Org Pavilion of Linux World Expo in SF this August.

Cool ...

> BTW, only people who can dedicate the entire show time including an extra day 
> before and possibly after the show for setup and tear-down (thus August 1-6) 
> should consider volunteering.

Sorry cant make it - think I'm getting married on 1st August and then 
honeymoon in Iceland for a week :)

Lance

-- 
uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. 



From royk at pixiehost.com  Fri Jun 11 15:42:35 2004
From: royk at pixiehost.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:42:35 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Linux World Expo 2004 in SF
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406112258090.28197-100000@s1.uklinux.net>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406112258090.28197-100000@s1.uklinux.net>
Message-ID: <40CA355B.1080704@pixiehost.com>

You think ?... anyways .. Congratulation :)


Lance Davis wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> 
> 
>>The cAos Foundation and hosted projects have been granted a booth in the Dot
>>Org Pavilion of Linux World Expo in SF this August.
> 
> 
> Cool ...
> 
> 
>>BTW, only people who can dedicate the entire show time including an extra day 
>>before and possibly after the show for setup and tear-down (thus August 1-6) 
>>should consider volunteering.
> 
> 
> Sorry cant make it - think I'm getting married on 1st August and then 
> honeymoon in Iceland for a week :)
> 
> Lance
> 

-- 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

    Roy Kartadinata
    Pixie Internet Services

    "This is Linux country. If you listen carefully, you can hear 
Windows reboot..."

+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


From lance at uklinux.net  Fri Jun 11 17:10:20 2004
From: lance at uklinux.net (Lance Davis)
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 01:10:20 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [cAos] Linux World Expo 2004 in SF
In-Reply-To: <40CA355B.1080704@pixiehost.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406120110060.28197-100000@s1.uklinux.net>

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Roy Kartadinata wrote:

> You think ?... anyways .. Congratulation :)

Well the date isnt set in stone yet :)

Lance

> 
> 
> Lance Davis wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>The cAos Foundation and hosted projects have been granted a booth in the Dot
> >>Org Pavilion of Linux World Expo in SF this August.
> > 
> > 
> > Cool ...
> > 
> > 
> >>BTW, only people who can dedicate the entire show time including an extra day 
> >>before and possibly after the show for setup and tear-down (thus August 1-6) 
> >>should consider volunteering.
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry cant make it - think I'm getting married on 1st August and then 
> > honeymoon in Iceland for a week :)
> > 
> > Lance
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. 



From ale at seleneinformatica.it  Mon Jun 14 06:34:19 2004
From: ale at seleneinformatica.it (Ale)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:34:19 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
Message-ID: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it>

Hello,
I new to cAos, I'm trying to install it on an old notebook that have a 
PCMCIA card: made by Qtec the model is: 593NC cardbus netowrk card, in 
the first menu when it try to recognize hardware it fails and don't show 
anything.

I'm trying to modify the drivers.img diskette but I don't understand How 
to load on it personal modules.

Any Ideas?

Thanks
A. Rendina


From rojee at bigpond.net.au  Mon Jun 14 07:13:45 2004
From: rojee at bigpond.net.au (The Salisburys)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:13:45 +1000
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it>
Message-ID: <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp>

>to recognize hardware it fails 

It it fails it must have been recongnised/detected
Did you mean it  was simply  "not detected"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ale" <ale at seleneinformatica.it>
To: <caos at caosity.org>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 11:34 PM
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)


> Hello,
> I new to cAos, I'm trying to install it on an old notebook that have a 
> PCMCIA card: made by Qtec the model is: 593NC cardbus netowrk card, in 
> the first menu when it try to recognize hardware it fails and don't show 
> anything.
> 
> I'm trying to modify the drivers.img diskette but I don't understand How 
> to load on it personal modules.
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> A. Rendina
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> 


From ale at seleneinformatica.it  Mon Jun 14 08:57:35 2004
From: ale at seleneinformatica.it (Ale)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:57:35 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
In-Reply-To: <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp>
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it> <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp>
Message-ID: <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it>

The Salisburys wrote:
> It it fails it must have been recongnised/detected
> Did you mean it  was simply  "not detected"

Yes, it is "not detected".


From greg at runlevelzero.net  Mon Jun 14 11:32:00 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:32:00 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
In-Reply-To: <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it>
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it> <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp> <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it>
Message-ID: <20040614183200.GA29008@runlevelzero.net>

Try to do the install locally first. I don't think I brought in automatic
support for PCMCIA yet.

The cAos ISO installer will install a default system for you. After it is
installed, you should be able to get it on the net, and then do a:

   # yum grouplist

To see the available package group selections, and then:

   # yum groupinstall [group]...

Have fun!

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:57:35PM +0200, Ale told me:
> The Salisburys wrote:
> >It it fails it must have been recongnised/detected
> >Did you mean it  was simply  "not detected"
> 
> Yes, it is "not detected".
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From rojee at bigpond.net.au  Mon Jun 14 15:38:34 2004
From: rojee at bigpond.net.au (The Salisburys)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:38:34 +1000
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it> <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp> <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it> <20040614183200.GA29008@runlevelzero.net>
Message-ID: <005501c45260$53de1d60$1000000a@rogersxp>

http://www.linux1394.org/hcl.php?class_id=2

if its not seen in the above link or similiar  ---probably  out of luck


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Kurtzer" <greg at runlevelzero.net>
To: <caos at caosity.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)


> Try to do the install locally first. I don't think I brought in automatic
> support for PCMCIA yet.
> 
> The cAos ISO installer will install a default system for you. After it is
> installed, you should be able to get it on the net, and then do a:
> 
>    # yum grouplist
> 
> To see the available package group selections, and then:
> 
>    # yum groupinstall [group]...
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:57:35PM +0200, Ale told me:
> > The Salisburys wrote:
> > >It it fails it must have been recongnised/detected
> > >Did you mean it  was simply  "not detected"
> > 
> > Yes, it is "not detected".
> > _______________________________________________
> > cAos mailing list
> > cAos at caosity.org
> > http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> 
> -- 
> Greg M. Kurtzer
> http://runlevelzero.net/
> http://caosity.org/
> http://warewulf-cluster.org/
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos


From ale at seleneinformatica.it  Tue Jun 15 01:52:56 2004
From: ale at seleneinformatica.it (Ale)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:52:56 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
In-Reply-To: <005501c45260$53de1d60$1000000a@rogersxp>
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it> <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp> <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it> <20040614183200.GA29008@runlevelzero.net> <005501c45260$53de1d60$1000000a@rogersxp>
Message-ID: <40CEB8E8.1020103@seleneinformatica.it>

The Salisburys wrote:
> http://www.linux1394.org/hcl.php?class_id=2
> 
> if its not seen in the above link or similiar  ---probably  out of luck

My netcard is pcmcia, your link lists only firewire cards


From ale at seleneinformatica.it  Tue Jun 15 01:57:56 2004
From: ale at seleneinformatica.it (Ale)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:57:56 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
In-Reply-To: <20040614183200.GA29008@runlevelzero.net>
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it> <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp> <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it> <20040614183200.GA29008@runlevelzero.net>
Message-ID: <40CEBA14.9010707@seleneinformatica.it>

Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> Try to do the install locally first. I don't think I brought in automatic
> support for PCMCIA yet.
> 

;) eh... this is a very hard problem, the notebook don't have a cdrom, 
   but only floppy disk and ethernet.
I don't find on caosity.org anything that describe the format of di 
drivers.img diskette, or how can I add a driver in other manner.


From greg at runlevelzero.net  Tue Jun 15 09:26:23 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:26:23 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Problems with pcmcia net card (cardbus)
In-Reply-To: <40CEBA14.9010707@seleneinformatica.it>
References: <40CDA95B.1020809@seleneinformatica.it> <004a01c45219$d53f9330$1000000a@rogersxp> <40CDCAEF.9020306@seleneinformatica.it> <20040614183200.GA29008@runlevelzero.net> <40CEBA14.9010707@seleneinformatica.it>
Message-ID: <20040615162623.GA9830@runlevelzero.net>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:57:56AM +0200, Ale told me:
> Greg Kurtzer wrote:
> >Try to do the install locally first. I don't think I brought in automatic
> >support for PCMCIA yet.
> >
> 
> ;) eh... this is a very hard problem, the notebook don't have a cdrom, 
>   but only floppy disk and ethernet.
> I don't find on caosity.org anything that describe the format of di 
> drivers.img diskette, or how can I add a driver in other manner.

Ahh... Well, the drivers.img is literally a ext2 formatted file system with
one file. The file is a compressed loopback file system (cloop.o). If you want
to make or add to the drivers.img, you will need to build the cloop.o and
userland applications (create_compressed_fs).

Once you have done this, grab the cinch tarball, and check out the code. Like
cinch, it is a bunch of shell scripts that drive it. Here is a snippet from
build.sh:

dd if=/dev/zero of=drivers.img bs=6144k count=1
/sbin/mke2fs -F drivers.img
mount drivers.img /$mp -o loop
cp -r modules/lib/modules/* $mp/
(cd $mp/*/; find . -type f -name '*.o') | while read i; do
   DIR=`dirname $i`
   if ( echo $DIR | grep '/drivers/net' >/dev/null 2>&1); then
      MODULE=`basename $i`
      echo "eth $MODULE" >> $mp/modules.aliases
   elif ( echo $DIR | grep '/drivers/scsi' >/dev/null 2>&1); then
      MODULE=`basename $i`
      echo "scsi_hostadapter $MODULE" >> $mp/modules.aliases
   fi
done
umount $mp/
create_compressed_fs drivers.img 4096 > drivers-cloop.img
dd if=/dev/zero of=drivers.img bs=1440K count=1
/sbin/mke2fs -F drivers.img
mount drivers.img /$mp -o loop
cp drivers-cloop.img /$mp
umount $mp/

It is basically: creating a filesystem, mounting it, copying everything from
the modules directory to the mount point, then figuring out if it is a network
or scsi device and writing the modules.aliases, unmounting, and then
creating the cloop image. Then it throws that onto a floppy disk image called 
drivers.img (which we are all familiar with). [takes a breath]

Simple, huh?

Hopefully in the next version of cinch I will be able to build support for
pcmcia devices. ;)

Again,.. If anyone on this list wants to port Anaconda to cAos, I am sure it
will be appreciated!
-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From mej at caosity.org  Wed Jun 16 15:46:33 2004
From: mej at caosity.org (Michael Jennings)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:46:33 -0400
Subject: [cAos] [ANNOUNCE] New Mezzanine Mailing List
Message-ID: <20040616224633.GB4686@kainx.org>

For those who don't know, Mezzanine (http://www.kainx.org/mezzanine/)
will be used by all package maintainers during the development of the
upcoming cAos 2.  If you are currently, or plan to become, a cAos
package maintainer, you'll be needing to learn it at some point.

With all the current development going on with mezz, including new
docs as well as code enhancements, I decided it was time to create a
mailing list for it.

Those who are interested in mezz development, testing, and
documentation are invited to subscribe.  Please visit the following
URL to subscribe:

http://mailman.nplus1.net/listinfo/mzdevel

Please note that this is a mailman mailing list, just like the
caos/centos lists, and thus it will mail you your password monthly.
Hence, I recommend using a password generated by "mkpasswd" or a
similar random password generator.

Michael

-- 
Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <mej at kainx.org>
n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 "May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you
  must walk."                                   -- Old Arabic Blessing


From greg at runlevelzero.net  Fri Jun 18 15:23:11 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:23:11 -0700
Subject: [cAos] caos-2 cvs builds using mezzanine
Message-ID: <20040618222311.GA4933@runlevelzero.net>

The cAos2 core packages are in CVS, and can be easily obtained and built from
CVS using the following commands:

   $ mkdir ~/caos2
   $ cd ~/caos2
   $ mzlogin -lD :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.caosity.org:/var/cvs
   $ mzget -D :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.caosity.org:/var/cvs caos

then to build a particular package do:

   $ cd [package dir that you want to build]
   $ mzbuild

or using the caos2 buildroot (run as root, because 'chroot' is needed, but it
will drop privs to nobody):

   # mzbuild -r /path/to/buildroot-2 -u nobody

You can then just re-update the repository using 'mzget' from the root of the
directory that you wish to update.

You can also build all of the packages using 'buildtool' from the ~/caos2/core/
directory.

The mezz docs will be on this public cvs server shortly!
-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From laytonjb at charter.net  Sat Jun 19 17:02:46 2004
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:02:46 -0400
Subject: [cAos] yum problems
Message-ID: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net>

Good evening.

   I was playing with cAos, installing some of the rpm's into
a different directory ala' chroot. It was working for a while
and now gives me errors. For example,

[root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall x
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file 
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

 
   I had previously installed the base group and I tried to
reinstall it (which should do nothing), but I get the same
error message:

[root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall base
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
retrygrab() failed for:
  
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
  Executing failover method
failover: out of servers to try
Error getting file 
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found


   Here's my yum.conf file:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=caos-release
installonlypkgs=linux linux-smp kernel kernel-smp

#[iso_core]
#name=ISO - core
#baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/RPMS/i386

[net_certified]
name=cAos certified
baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
#baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/


   I haven't changed anything from when I used yum to when it
quit working. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jeff



From herrold at owlriver.com  Sat Jun 19 17:23:33 2004
From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [cAos] Re: cAos]  yum problems
In-Reply-To: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net>
References: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406192020580.18637@swampfox.owlriver.com>

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

>    I was playing with cAos, installing some of the rpm's into
> a different directory ala' chroot. It was working for a while
> and now gives me errors. For example,
> 
> [root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall x
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info

-- compare to expected:

> [net_certified]
> name=cAos certified
> baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> #baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/

Almost certainly yum is using a /etc/yum.conf from outside the
expected result build chroot, and that your experimentation is
being done on a RHL 9 unit. -- if you wish to use a caos-type
yum.conf file, the -c option, and a path to that differing
yum.conf are needed.

-- Russ Herrold


From laytonjb at charter.net  Sat Jun 19 17:33:26 2004
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:33:26 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Re: cAos]  yum problems
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406192020580.18637@swampfox.owlriver.com>
References: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406192020580.18637@swampfox.owlriver.com>
Message-ID: <40D4DB56.3000602@charter.net>

R P Herrold wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
>
>  
>
>>   I was playing with cAos, installing some of the rpm's into
>>a different directory ala' chroot. It was working for a while
>>and now gives me errors. For example,
>>
>>[root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall x
>>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>>Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
>>retrygrab() failed for:
>>  
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>>    
>>
>
>-- compare to expected:
>
>  
>
>>[net_certified]
>>name=cAos certified
>>baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
>>#baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
>>    
>>
>
>Almost certainly yum is using a /etc/yum.conf from outside the
>expected result build chroot, and that your experimentation is
>being done on a RHL 9 unit. -- if you wish to use a caos-type
>yum.conf file, the -c option, and a path to that differing
>yum.conf are needed.
>  
>

Sorry, but you lost me. It was working before and nothing changed
so why isn't it working now? I created the directory /testroot as
root and then used the "--installbase" to install into it. All of a
sudden it quit working. I'm doing all of this on a cAos-1.0 box
using the cAos-1.0 rpm's.

Thanks!

Jeff


>-- Russ Herrold
>_______________________________________________
>cAos mailing list
>cAos at caosity.org
>http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>
>  
>



From herrold at owlriver.com  Sat Jun 19 17:52:31 2004
From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [cAos] Re: cAos]  Re: cAos]  yum problems
In-Reply-To: <40D4DB56.3000602@charter.net>
References: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406192020580.18637@swampfox.owlriver.com>
 <40D4DB56.3000602@charter.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406192047520.19294@swampfox.owlriver.com>

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> > Herrold prior:
> >Almost certainly yum is using a /etc/yum.conf from outside the
> >expected result build chroot, and that your experimentation is
> >being done on a RHL 9 unit. -- if you wish to use a caos-type
> >yum.conf file, the -c option, and a path to that differing
> >yum.conf are needed.
> 
> Sorry, but you lost me. It was working before and nothing changed
> so why isn't it working now? I created the directory /testroot as
> root and then used the "--installbase" to install into it. All of a
> sudden it quit working. I'm doing all of this on a cAos-1.0 box
> using the cAos-1.0 rpm's.

Unlikely that 'nothing' changed.  The caos-1 yum rpm does not
contain a yum.conf which points to the duke mirror -- your
trace demonstrates a yum.conf which does.  Something altered 
it.

To work, use a command line like this: 

   yum -c /path/to/previously/quoted.caos-yum.conf \
	--installroot /testroot groupinstall x

-- Russ Herrold


From greg at runlevelzero.net  Sat Jun 19 18:35:57 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:35:57 -0700
Subject: [cAos] yum problems
In-Reply-To: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net>
References: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net>
Message-ID: <20040620013557.GB12419@runlevelzero.net>

remove the yum.conf in your chroot:

   # rm -f /testroot/etc/yum.conf

It was installed by yum on the previous yum --installroot command, and it
points to Seth's default Duke repos. Nuke the Duke repos, and you will be a
happy camper. :)

note: When using the --installroot option with yum, it will first use the
yum.conf in the chroot if one exists, and if it does not, it will use the
system's yum.conf. That is why it worked the first time, but not the second.

And most important, something in which you can not forget! It is very
important to never run with scissors!

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:02:46PM -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton told me:
> Good evening.
> 
>   I was playing with cAos, installing some of the rpm's into
> a different directory ala' chroot. It was working for a while
> and now gives me errors. For example,
> 
> [root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall x
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>  Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> 
>   I had previously installed the base group and I tried to
> reinstall it (which should do nothing), but I get the same
> error message:
> 
> [root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall base
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>  
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>  Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
> http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> 
>   Here's my yum.conf file:
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=caos-release
> installonlypkgs=linux linux-smp kernel kernel-smp
> 
> #[iso_core]
> #name=ISO - core
> #baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/RPMS/i386
> 
> [net_certified]
> name=cAos certified
> baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> #baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> 
> 
>   I haven't changed anything from when I used yum to when it
> quit working. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From landman at scalableinformatics.com  Sat Jun 19 18:46:26 2004
From: landman at scalableinformatics.com (Joe Landman)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 21:46:26 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Strangeness upon boot with display
Message-ID: <1087695986.28542.7.camel@protein.scalableinformatics.com>

Folks:

  Upon boot of my node after a cAos-1 install, my display goes from
displaying normal text during startup, to having not quite readable text
with vertical bars.  

  The machine uses an nVidia AGP card, and does not exhibit this problem
under any other distros (RH, CentOS, SuSE, Gentoo, Knoppix, ...)

  If I force it to insert a framebuffer module for VESA, the display
becomes normal again.  

  Any thoughts?  My "hack" is an OK workaround for now, not a show
stopper, but it makes typing ... challenging.  

-- 
Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com>



From jtate at dragonstrider.com  Sat Jun 19 20:08:55 2004
From: jtate at dragonstrider.com (Joseph Tate)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:08:55 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Strangeness upon boot with display
In-Reply-To: <1087695986.28542.7.camel@protein.scalableinformatics.com>
References: <1087695986.28542.7.camel@protein.scalableinformatics.com>
Message-ID: <40D4FFC7.2010607@dragonstrider.com>

Joe Landman wrote:
> Folks:
> 
>   Upon boot of my node after a cAos-1 install, my display goes from
> displaying normal text during startup, to having not quite readable text
> with vertical bars.  
> 
>   The machine uses an nVidia AGP card, and does not exhibit this problem
> under any other distros (RH, CentOS, SuSE, Gentoo, Knoppix, ...)
> 
>   If I force it to insert a framebuffer module for VESA, the display
> becomes normal again.  
> 
>   Any thoughts?  My "hack" is an OK workaround for now, not a show
> stopper, but it makes typing ... challenging.  
> 

There's an open bug on the grub in cAos.  See 
https://bugzilla.caosity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193 for details as well as 
a work around.


From laytonjb at charter.net  Sun Jun 20 04:39:55 2004
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:39:55 -0400
Subject: [cAos] yum problems
In-Reply-To: <20040620013557.GB12419@runlevelzero.net>
References: <40D4D426.7010109@charter.net> <20040620013557.GB12419@runlevelzero.net>
Message-ID: <40D5778B.9000808@charter.net>

Greg Kurtzer wrote:

>remove the yum.conf in your chroot:
>
>   # rm -f /testroot/etc/yum.conf
>
>It was installed by yum on the previous yum --installroot command, and it
>points to Seth's default Duke repos. Nuke the Duke repos, and you will be a
>happy camper. :)
>
>note: When using the --installroot option with yum, it will first use the
>yum.conf in the chroot if one exists, and if it does not, it will use the
>system's yum.conf. That is why it worked the first time, but not the second.
>  
>

I'm learning more and more :) Thanks!

>And most important, something in which you can not forget! It is very
>important to never run with scissors!
>  
>

Smart Aleck! :)

Thanks!

Jeff

>On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:02:46PM -0400, Jeffrey B. Layton told me:
>  
>
>>Good evening.
>>
>>  I was playing with cAos, installing some of the rpm's into
>>a different directory ala' chroot. It was working for a while
>>and now gives me errors. For example,
>>
>>[root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall x
>>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>>Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
>>retrygrab() failed for:
>> 
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>> Executing failover method
>>failover: out of servers to try
>>Error getting file 
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>>[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>>
>>
>>  I had previously installed the base group and I tried to
>>reinstall it (which should do nothing), but I get the same
>>error message:
>>
>>[root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot groupinstall base
>>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>>Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
>>retrygrab() failed for:
>> 
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>> Executing failover method
>>failover: out of servers to try
>>Error getting file 
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>>[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
>>
>>
>>  Here's my yum.conf file:
>>
>>[main]
>>cachedir=/var/cache/yum
>>debuglevel=2
>>logfile=/var/log/yum.log
>>pkgpolicy=newest
>>distroverpkg=caos-release
>>installonlypkgs=linux linux-smp kernel kernel-smp
>>
>>#[iso_core]
>>#name=ISO - core
>>#baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/RPMS/i386
>>
>>[net_certified]
>>name=cAos certified
>>baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
>>#baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
>>
>>
>>  I haven't changed anything from when I used yum to when it
>>quit working. Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>cAos mailing list
>>cAos at caosity.org
>>http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>>    
>>
>
>  
>



From gravesricharde at yahoo.com  Sun Jun 20 11:35:39 2004
From: gravesricharde at yahoo.com (Rick Graves)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 11:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [cAos] Re: nVIDIA on Linux: less is more
In-Reply-To: <20040620120000.4666.72584.Mailman@caos1.caosity.org>
Message-ID: <20040620183539.8542.qmail@web14712.mail.yahoo.com>

Hey,

>  The machine uses an nVidia AGP card, and does not
exhibit this problem under any other distros (RH,
CentOS, SuSE, Gentoo, Knoppix, ...)

There has been correspondence in the CentOS mailing
list recently about problems with nVIDIA cards running
CentOS.  

After I completed EXHAUSTIVE parts and distribution
swapping tests, I finally bought a Voodoo Banshee card
and solved the problems COMPLETELY.  (I had exactly
the same problems with the same hardware after I
installed Fedora.)  

I only got a Voodoo Banshee because one was up for
auction locally, and I could get it cheap.  I also had
good results with a cheapie S3 card.  

I suspect that most any other card might work better
than nVIDIA.  

So if you want to "cut the Gordian knot" and solve the
problems fast, F**K nVIDIA, and try other display
cards.

Rick


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> 
> Today's Topics:
> 
>    1. yum problems (Jeffrey B. Layton)
>    2. Re: cAos]  yum problems (R P Herrold)
>    3. Re: Re: cAos]  yum problems (Jeffrey B.
> Layton)
>    4. Re: cAos]  Re: cAos]  yum problems (R P
> Herrold)
>    5. Re: yum problems (Greg Kurtzer)
>    6. Strangeness upon boot with display (Joe
> Landman)
>    7. Re: Strangeness upon boot with display (Joseph
> Tate)
>    8. Re: yum problems (Jeffrey B. Layton)
> 
> --__--__--
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:02:46 -0400
> From: "Jeffrey B. Layton" <laytonjb at charter.net>
> To: caos at caosity.org
> Subject: [cAos] yum problems
> Reply-To: caos at caosity.org
> 
> Good evening.
> 
>    I was playing with cAos, installing some of the
> rpm's into
> a different directory ala' chroot. It was working
> for a while
> and now gives me errors. For example,
> 
> [root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot
> groupinstall x
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   
>
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
>
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
>  
>    I had previously installed the base group and I
> tried to
> reinstall it (which should do nothing), but I get
> the same
> error message:
> 
> [root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot
> groupinstall base
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   
>
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file 
>
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
> 
> 
>    Here's my yum.conf file:
> 
> [main]
> cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> debuglevel=2
> logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> pkgpolicy=newest
> distroverpkg=caos-release
> installonlypkgs=linux linux-smp kernel kernel-smp
> 
> #[iso_core]
> #name=ISO - core
> #baseurl=file:///mnt/cdrom/RPMS/i386
> 
> [net_certified]
> name=cAos certified
>
baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
>
#baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> 
> 
>    I haven't changed anything from when I used yum
> to when it
> quit working. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> --__--__--
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:23:33 -0400 (EDT)
> From: R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
> To: caos at caosity.org
> Subject: [cAos] Re: cAos]  yum problems
> Reply-To: caos at caosity.org
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> 
> >    I was playing with cAos, installing some of the
> rpm's into
> > a different directory ala' chroot. It was working
> for a while
> > and now gives me errors. For example,
> > 
> > [root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot
> groupinstall x
> > Gathering header information file(s) from
> server(s)
> > Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> > retrygrab() failed for:
> >   
> >
>
http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> 
> -- compare to expected:
> 
> > [net_certified]
> > name=cAos certified
> >
>
baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> >
>
#baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> 
> Almost certainly yum is using a /etc/yum.conf from
> outside the
> expected result build chroot, and that your
> experimentation is
> being done on a RHL 9 unit. -- if you wish to use a
> caos-type
> yum.conf file, the -c option, and a path to that
> differing
> yum.conf are needed.
> 
> -- Russ Herrold
> 
> --__--__--
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 20:33:26 -0400
> From: "Jeffrey B. Layton" <laytonjb at charter.net>
> To: caos at caosity.org
> Subject: Re: [cAos] Re: cAos]  yum problems
> Reply-To: caos at caosity.org
> 
> R P Herrold wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>   I was playing with cAos, installing some of the
> rpm's into
> >>a different directory ala' chroot. It was working
> for a while
> >>and now gives me errors. For example,
> >>
> >>[root at home8 laytonj]# yum --installroot /testroot
> groupinstall x
> >>Gathering header information file(s) from
> server(s)
> >>Server: Red Hat Linux Null - i386 - Base
> >>retrygrab() failed for:
> >>  
>
>>http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/Null/i386/headers/header.info
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >-- compare to expected:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>[net_certified]
> >>name=cAos certified
>
>>baseurl=http://mirror.caosity.org/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
>
>>#baseurl=http://caos.nplus1.net/cAos-1.0/certified/i386/
> 
=== message truncated ===



From landman at scalableinformatics.com  Sun Jun 20 12:09:30 2004
From: landman at scalableinformatics.com (Joe Landman)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:09:30 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Re: nVIDIA on Linux: less is more
In-Reply-To: <20040620183539.8542.qmail@web14712.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040620183539.8542.qmail@web14712.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1087758569.28821.10.camel@protein.scalableinformatics.com>

On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 14:35, Rick Graves wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> >  The machine uses an nVidia AGP card, and does not
> exhibit this problem under any other distros (RH,
> CentOS, SuSE, Gentoo, Knoppix, ...)
> 

[...]

> I suspect that most any other card might work better
> than nVIDIA.  
> 
> So if you want to "cut the Gordian knot" and solve the
> problems fast, F**K nVIDIA, and try other display
> cards.

This of course not a viable solution to the problem, but thanks for the
suggestion.



-- 
Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com>



From laytonjb at charter.net  Sun Jun 20 14:41:48 2004
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:41:48 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Mozilla Question
Message-ID: <40D6049C.4030801@charter.net>

Howdy!

   I was looking at the various Mozilla rpms on the download
sites. Could someone tell me the difference between all of
the various rpms? I'm looking for the basic browser/mail/
compose/chat build that I can get from mozilla.org.

TIA!

Jeff



From m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl  Mon Jun 21 00:58:22 2004
From: m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl (Maarten Stolte)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:58:22 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Mozilla Question
In-Reply-To: <40D6049C.4030801@charter.net>
References: <40D6049C.4030801@charter.net>
Message-ID: <40D6951E.5070702@datadevil.demon.nl>

Hi,

Jeffrey B. Layton wrote:

> Howdy!
>
>   I was looking at the various Mozilla rpms on the download
> sites. Could someone tell me the difference between all of
> the various rpms? I'm looking for the basic browser/mail/
> compose/chat build that I can get from mozilla.org.

there is only one Mozilla (1.6-2) in certified, but spread over several 
packages, a'la Redhat.
A simple yum install mozilla mozilla-mail mozilla-chat should get you 
all you want. Compose i'm a bit in doubt about, it might be in the 
standard mozilla package..

ciao,

Maarten


From mitja at lithium.yi.org  Mon Jun 21 09:34:38 2004
From: mitja at lithium.yi.org (Mitja Sladovic)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:34:38 +0200
Subject: [cAos] centos and slow scp (sftp)
Message-ID: <1087835678.40d70e1e34273@lithium.yi.org>

Hello,

I have instaled Centos-3.1 with all updates...
The problem is that scp (sftp) to centos box works extremly slow (about 5kb/s),
while in RH9, that was installed, about 700kb/s...

Other transfers seems to be OK (ftp, web download...).

eth0 = 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]

Any idea?

Thanks, Mitja



From greg at runlevelzero.net  Mon Jun 21 12:03:50 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:03:50 -0700
Subject: [cAos] caos-2 cvs builds using mezzanine
In-Reply-To: <20040618222311.GA4933@runlevelzero.net>
References: <20040618222311.GA4933@runlevelzero.net>
Message-ID: <20040621190350.GA31052@runlevelzero.net>

(as promised):

To retrieve the mezz docs:

   $ mzget -D :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.caosity.org:/var/cvs caos/docs


On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:23:11PM -0700, Greg Kurtzer told me:
> The cAos2 core packages are in CVS, and can be easily obtained and built from
> CVS using the following commands:
> 
>    $ mkdir ~/caos2
>    $ cd ~/caos2
>    $ mzlogin -lD :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.caosity.org:/var/cvs
>    $ mzget -D :pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.caosity.org:/var/cvs caos
> 
> then to build a particular package do:
> 
>    $ cd [package dir that you want to build]
>    $ mzbuild
> 
> or using the caos2 buildroot (run as root, because 'chroot' is needed, but it
> will drop privs to nobody):
> 
>    # mzbuild -r /path/to/buildroot-2 -u nobody
> 
> You can then just re-update the repository using 'mzget' from the root of the
> directory that you wish to update.
> 
> You can also build all of the packages using 'buildtool' from the ~/caos2/core/
> directory.
> 
> The mezz docs will be on this public cvs server shortly!
> -- 
> Greg M. Kurtzer
> http://runlevelzero.net/
> http://caosity.org/
> http://warewulf-cluster.org/
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From gravesricharde at yahoo.com  Mon Jun 21 13:59:59 2004
From: gravesricharde at yahoo.com (Rick Graves)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:59:59 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [cAos] Re: nVIDIA on Linux: viable solutions
In-Reply-To: <20040621120001.16034.67357.Mailman@caos1.caosity.org>
Message-ID: <20040621205959.5623.qmail@web14714.mail.yahoo.com>

Jon,

> This of course not a viable solution to the problem,
but thanks for the suggestion.

Might it depend on what your time is worth?  

I may have spent 20 hours (or more) trying different
combinations of monitor, motherboard and distribution
to reach the conclusion that nVIDIA cards do work with
some monitors and some motherboards but not all.  

Also, in the CentOS mailing list, some suggested using
CentOS with a kernel from a different distribution, or
downloading stuff from the nVIDIA site and
recompliling the kernel with that (as suggested by
nVIDIA).  However, I was not willing to disconnect
automatic updates via YUM, so those options were out
for me.  

Rick


From landman at scalableinformatics.com  Mon Jun 21 14:08:51 2004
From: landman at scalableinformatics.com (Joe Landman)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:08:51 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Re: nVIDIA on Linux: viable solutions
In-Reply-To: <20040621205959.5623.qmail@web14714.mail.yahoo.com>
References: <20040621205959.5623.qmail@web14714.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <40D74E63.1020405@scalableinformatics.com>

Rick Graves wrote:

>Jon,
>
>  
>
>>This of course not a viable solution to the problem,
>>    
>>
>but thanks for the suggestion.
>
>Might it depend on what your time is worth?  
>  
>

To a degree.  I would not have searched the space they way you did.

>I may have spent 20 hours (or more) trying different
>  
>

I put definite limits on such time.  20 hours exceeds (by about a factor 
of 20) the amount of time I would be willing to invest in such an effort.

>combinations of monitor, motherboard and distribution
>to reach the conclusion that nVIDIA cards do work with
>some monitors and some motherboards but not all.  
>  
>

....  The point was that a card, which works fine with other distros was 
exhibiting some problems (which appear to be obviously software related) 
under cAos.

In this scenario, replacing a working card with an unknown does not 
solve the problem.  Since the card is known to work, and known to work 
under linux (other distros), the workable solution is to figure out what 
is wrong with the screen setup code that messes up the display, or 
barring that, finding an acceptable workaround.

I did find the acceptable (temporary) workaround, but it is not 
something I would like to deploy at a customer site. 

--
Joe Landman
landman at scalableinformatics.com




From jn at it.swin.edu.au  Mon Jun 21 16:57:17 2004
From: jn at it.swin.edu.au (John Newbigin)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:57:17 +1000
Subject: [cAos] centos and slow scp (sftp)
In-Reply-To: <1087835678.40d70e1e34273@lithium.yi.org>
References: <1087835678.40d70e1e34273@lithium.yi.org>
Message-ID: <40D775DD.5080509@it.swin.edu.au>

Check that your network card duplex matches your switch duplex. 
(mii-tool | ethtool)

John.

Mitja Sladovic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have instaled Centos-3.1 with all updates...
> The problem is that scp (sftp) to centos box works extremly slow (about 5kb/s),
> while in RH9, that was installed, about 700kb/s...
> 
> Other transfers seems to be OK (ftp, web download...).
> 
> eth0 = 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks, Mitja
> 
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
> 
> 
> 


-- 
John Newbigin - Computer Systems Officer
School of Information Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin



From mailing-lists at hughesjr.com  Mon Jun 21 21:46:31 2004
From: mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:46:31 -0500
Subject: [cAos] centos and slow scp (sftp)
In-Reply-To: <1087835678.40d70e1e34273@lithium.yi.org>
References: <1087835678.40d70e1e34273@lithium.yi.org>
Message-ID: <1087879591.4629.6.camel@CentOS-31>

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 11:34, Mitja Sladovic wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have instaled Centos-3.1 with all updates...
> The problem is that scp (sftp) to centos box works extremly slow (about 5kb/s),
> while in RH9, that was installed, about 700kb/s...
> 
> Other transfers seems to be OK (ftp, web download...).
> 
> eth0 = 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
> 
> Any idea?
> 

See this thread on the WBEL User's List:
http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-June/001939.html


> Thanks, Mitja


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From greg at runlevelzero.net  Wed Jun 23 15:39:19 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:39:19 -0700
Subject: [cAos] Re: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
In-Reply-To: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E09D95B@ccc2003.4cd.net>
References: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E09D95B@ccc2003.4cd.net>
Message-ID: <20040623223919.GB17230@runlevelzero.net>

Hrmm... Warewulf or cAos list? I am responding back to the caos list...

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> We are attempting to install cAos certified on a dual Dell 2.4 GHz Intel
> Xeon processor. We basically took the default on all cinch CD
> installation options (aside from specifying IP, rather than DHCPing). We
> selected base and server packages.
> 
> We get an error message 
>     failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 errrno=2
>     unable to mount root fs on 08:02 
>     append correct root=boot option.
> 
> I am a self admitting Linux weenie though I have been using Unix since
> the 70s. I pick up sys admin knowledge as I need to.
> 
> I need knowledge now. For what it is worth, my hunch is cAos is not
> supporting this Dell CPU. I'd give it a 10% chance of being right.
> 
> Greg will soon be kidding around, so I suspect I will get to know some
> new kindred spirits.

When did you get this error? During install, or first boot?

What kind of disks does this system utilize (SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc..)?

:)
-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From TMurphy at contracosta.edu  Wed Jun 23 16:59:56 2004
From: TMurphy at contracosta.edu (Murphy, Thomas)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:59:56 -0700
Subject: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
Message-ID: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E09D95E@ccc2003.4cd.net>

My apologies. I responded to the email without first joining the mailing
list. I have rectified that, and have resubmitted my response to Greg

   ... Tom

tmurphy at contracosta.edu

Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
Director of Center for High Performance Computing
     (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)

2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, Ca 94806
(510) 235-7800 X4348

-----Original Message-----
From: Murphy, Thomas 
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:47 PM
To: 'Greg Kurtzer'; caos at caosity.org
Cc: Fong, Milen
Subject: RE: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot

Silly me. I went to the wrong list. I was so focused on getting Warewulf
a running.

I got through install wonderfully (twice). The problem came with the
first boot (multiple times)

It is a Dell Poweredge 1750 with the following connectors

	Rear: two RJ-45, one 9-pin serial, Universal Serial Bus (USB),
Video,
	PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard, one server management port, 
	external 68-pin VHDC SCSI port, ID push button with blue/amber
LED
 
 	Front: 1 Universal Serial Bus (USB), video, 
	ID push button with blue/amber LED

So I am going to presume it is a 68-pin VHDC SCSI drive.

Thanks

   ... Tom

tmurphy at contracosta.edu

Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
Director of Center for High Performance Computing
     (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)

2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, Ca 94806
(510) 235-7800 X4348

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Kurtzer [mailto:greg at runlevelzero.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:39 PM
To: caos at caosity.org
Cc: Fong, Milen; Murphy, Thomas
Subject: Re: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot

Hrmm... Warewulf or cAos list? I am responding back to the caos list...

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> We are attempting to install cAos certified on a dual Dell 2.4 GHz
Intel
> Xeon processor. We basically took the default on all cinch CD
> installation options (aside from specifying IP, rather than DHCPing).
We
> selected base and server packages.
> 
> We get an error message 
>     failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 errrno=2
>     unable to mount root fs on 08:02 
>     append correct root=boot option.
> 
> I am a self admitting Linux weenie though I have been using Unix since
> the 70s. I pick up sys admin knowledge as I need to.
> 
> I need knowledge now. For what it is worth, my hunch is cAos is not
> supporting this Dell CPU. I'd give it a 10% chance of being right.
> 
> Greg will soon be kidding around, so I suspect I will get to know some
> new kindred spirits.

When did you get this error? During install, or first boot?

What kind of disks does this system utilize (SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc..)?

:)
-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From greg at runlevelzero.net  Thu Jun 24 10:27:15 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:27:15 -0700
Subject: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
In-Reply-To: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E09D95E@ccc2003.4cd.net>
References: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E09D95E@ccc2003.4cd.net>
Message-ID: <20040624172715.GA22288@runlevelzero.net>

OK, as soon as the package installation part completes, and you get back to the
main menu, Choose the option to go into a shell (do not reboot at this time).

Then do the following commands, and send the output back here:

   # chroot /newroot
   # cat /etc/modules.conf
   # lsmod
   # lspci | grep SCSI
   # egrep 'kernel|root' /etc/grub.conf
   # cat /boot/grub/device.map
   # ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda[1-9]
   # uname -r

It looks like the Dell Poweredge1750 utilizes an LSI Megaraid controller, and
these Dells seem to commonly have issues with working with Linux (although it
looks like in our kernel, the megaraid.c version should be sufficient).

Hopefully with the above information, we should be able to ascertain what is
going on...

Good luck!

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:59:56PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> My apologies. I responded to the email without first joining the mailing
> list. I have rectified that, and have resubmitted my response to Greg
> 
>    ... Tom
> 
> tmurphy at contracosta.edu
> 
> Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
> Director of Center for High Performance Computing
>      (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
> 
> 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> San Pablo, Ca 94806
> (510) 235-7800 X4348
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murphy, Thomas 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:47 PM
> To: 'Greg Kurtzer'; caos at caosity.org
> Cc: Fong, Milen
> Subject: RE: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
> 
> Silly me. I went to the wrong list. I was so focused on getting Warewulf
> a running.
> 
> I got through install wonderfully (twice). The problem came with the
> first boot (multiple times)
> 
> It is a Dell Poweredge 1750 with the following connectors
> 
> 	Rear: two RJ-45, one 9-pin serial, Universal Serial Bus (USB),
> Video,
> 	PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard, one server management port, 
> 	external 68-pin VHDC SCSI port, ID push button with blue/amber
> LED
>  
>  	Front: 1 Universal Serial Bus (USB), video, 
> 	ID push button with blue/amber LED
> 
> So I am going to presume it is a 68-pin VHDC SCSI drive.
> 
> Thanks
> 
>    ... Tom
> 
> tmurphy at contracosta.edu
> 
> Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
> Director of Center for High Performance Computing
>      (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
> 
> 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> San Pablo, Ca 94806
> (510) 235-7800 X4348
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kurtzer [mailto:greg at runlevelzero.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:39 PM
> To: caos at caosity.org
> Cc: Fong, Milen; Murphy, Thomas
> Subject: Re: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
> 
> Hrmm... Warewulf or cAos list? I am responding back to the caos list...
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> > We are attempting to install cAos certified on a dual Dell 2.4 GHz
> Intel
> > Xeon processor. We basically took the default on all cinch CD
> > installation options (aside from specifying IP, rather than DHCPing).
> We
> > selected base and server packages.
> > 
> > We get an error message 
> >     failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 errrno=2
> >     unable to mount root fs on 08:02 
> >     append correct root=boot option.
> > 
> > I am a self admitting Linux weenie though I have been using Unix since
> > the 70s. I pick up sys admin knowledge as I need to.
> > 
> > I need knowledge now. For what it is worth, my hunch is cAos is not
> > supporting this Dell CPU. I'd give it a 10% chance of being right.
> > 
> > Greg will soon be kidding around, so I suspect I will get to know some
> > new kindred spirits.
> 
> When did you get this error? During install, or first boot?
> 
> What kind of disks does this system utilize (SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc..)?
> 
> :)
> -- 
> Greg M. Kurtzer
> http://runlevelzero.net/
> http://caosity.org/
> http://warewulf-cluster.org/
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

-- 
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/


From ivo at tijhaar.com  Sun Jun 27 14:46:47 2004
From: ivo at tijhaar.com (Ivo Tijhaar)
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:46:47 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Problems rebuilding some packages
Message-ID: <1088372806.28893.4.camel@as-server.younameitwehaveit.net>

Hi,

I'm building my own centos from de source packages provided by redhat.
Only the following packages won't build:

at-3.1.8-47
ghostscript-7.05-32.1.8
gimp-print-4.2.4-5
gnome-python2-1.99.14-5
redhat-config-language-1.0.14-2

Does someone have any idea to solve this problem,

Tnx in advance



From MFong at contracosta.edu  Tue Jun 29 09:05:02 2004
From: MFong at contracosta.edu (Fong, Milen)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:05:02 -0700
Subject: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
Message-ID: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E412C16@ccc2003.4cd.net>

Hi Tom and cAos masters,

I am reposting this reply as yesterdays was done in html format and was larger than allowed message size.

Computers in other cabinet have only 1 NIC so they can't be the head. I have run the diagnostic commands as instructed below and here are the results

# chroot /newroot
# cat /etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 tg3
alias eth1 tg3
# Note: for use under 2.6, changes must also be made to modprobe.conf
# lsmod
module		Size		Used by	Not tainted
tg3			42504		1	
cloop			8388		0
# lspci | grep SCSI
04:05.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic/Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c103
	0 (rev 07)
04:05.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic/Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c103
	0 (rev 07)
# egrep 'kernel|root' /etc/grub.conf
root (hd0,0)
	Kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.25-g.caos ro root=/dev/sda2
# cat /boot/grub/device.map
# device.map created by cinch (the cAos installer)
(fd0)	/dev/fd0
(hd0)	/dev/sda
# ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda[1-9]
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	0	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	1	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda1
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	2	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda2
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	3	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda3
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	4	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda4
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	5	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda5
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	6	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda6
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	7	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda7
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	8	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda8
brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	9	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda9
# uname -r
2.4.25

Hopefully this gives you enough info to help me out.

Milen Fong


________________________________________
From: Murphy, Thomas 
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:46 AM
To: Fong, Milen
Subject: FW: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot

Can you run these diagnostics and get them to me or the mailing list (you will first need to join the mailing list)
?
It dawned on me another way we could get all this running is to use a computer from the other cabinet as the head node. That would actually be a better use of resources. I do not know if those computers have two NICs. I suspect they might.
?
BTW my phone at the lab is 510-495-2716
?
?? ... Tom
?
tmurphy at contracosta.edu
?
Computer Science program chair (http://contracosta/cs/)
Director of Center for High Performance Computing (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
?
2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, Ca 94806
(510) 235-7800 X4348

________________________________________
From: caos-admin at caosity.org on behalf of Greg Kurtzer
Sent: Thu 6/24/2004 10:27 AM
To: caos at caosity.org
Subject: Re: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
OK, as soon as the package installation part completes, and you get back to the
main menu, Choose the option to go into a shell (do not reboot at this time).

Then do the following commands, and send the output back here:

?? # chroot /newroot
?? # cat /etc/modules.conf
?? # lsmod
?? # lspci | grep SCSI
?? # egrep 'kernel|root' /etc/grub.conf
?? # cat /boot/grub/device.map
?? # ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda[1-9]
?? # uname -r

It looks like the Dell Poweredge1750 utilizes an LSI Megaraid controller, and
these Dells seem to commonly have issues with working with Linux (although it
looks like in our kernel, the megaraid.c version should be sufficient).

Hopefully with the above information, we should be able to ascertain what is
going on...

Good luck!

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:59:56PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> My apologies. I responded to the email without first joining the mailing
> list. I have rectified that, and have resubmitted my response to Greg
>
>??? ... Tom
>
> tmurphy at contracosta.edu
>
> Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
> Director of Center for High Performance Computing
>????? (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
>
> 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> San Pablo, Ca 94806
> (510) 235-7800 X4348
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Murphy, Thomas
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:47 PM
> To: 'Greg Kurtzer'; caos at caosity.org
> Cc: Fong, Milen
> Subject: RE: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
>
> Silly me. I went to the wrong list. I was so focused on getting Warewulf
> a running.
>
> I got through install wonderfully (twice). The problem came with the
> first boot (multiple times)
>
> It is a Dell Poweredge 1750 with the following connectors
>
> ????? Rear: two RJ-45, one 9-pin serial, Universal Serial Bus (USB),
> Video,
> ????? PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard, one server management port,
> ????? external 68-pin VHDC SCSI port, ID push button with blue/amber
> LED
>?
>? ???? Front: 1 Universal Serial Bus (USB), video,
> ????? ID push button with blue/amber LED
>
> So I am going to presume it is a 68-pin VHDC SCSI drive.
>
> Thanks
>
>??? ... Tom
>
> tmurphy at contracosta.edu
>
> Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
> Director of Center for High Performance Computing
>????? (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
>
> 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> San Pablo, Ca 94806
> (510) 235-7800 X4348
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kurtzer [mailto:greg at runlevelzero.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:39 PM
> To: caos at caosity.org
> Cc: Fong, Milen; Murphy, Thomas
> Subject: Re: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
>
> Hrmm... Warewulf or cAos list? I am responding back to the caos list...
>
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> > We are attempting to install cAos certified on a dual Dell 2.4 GHz
> Intel
> > Xeon processor. We basically took the default on all cinch CD
> > installation options (aside from specifying IP, rather than DHCPing).
> We
> > selected base and server packages.
> >
> > We get an error message
> >???? failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 errrno=2
> >???? unable to mount root fs on 08:02
> >???? append correct root=boot option.
> >
> > I am a self admitting Linux weenie though I have been using Unix since
> > the 70s. I pick up sys admin knowledge as I need to.
> >
> > I need knowledge now. For what it is worth, my hunch is cAos is not
> > supporting this Dell CPU. I'd give it a 10% chance of being right.
> >
> > Greg will soon be kidding around, so I suspect I will get to know some
> > new kindred spirits.
>
> When did you get this error? During install, or first boot?
>
> What kind of disks does this system utilize (SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc..)?
>
> :)
> --
> Greg M. Kurtzer
> http://runlevelzero.net/
> http://caosity.org/
> http://warewulf-cluster.org/
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos

--
Greg M. Kurtzer
http://runlevelzero.net/
http://caosity.org/
http://warewulf-cluster.org/
_______________________________________________
cAos mailing list
cAos at caosity.org
http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos


From charlieb-caos at budge.apana.org.au  Tue Jun 29 12:45:36 2004
From: charlieb-caos at budge.apana.org.au (Charlie Brady)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [cAos] Problems rebuilding some packages
In-Reply-To: <1088372806.28893.4.camel@as-server.younameitwehaveit.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406291543290.27250-100000@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>

On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Ivo Tijhaar wrote:

> I'm building my own centos from de source packages provided by redhat.

What are you using as a built platform?

> Only the following packages won't build:
> 
> at-3.1.8-47
> ghostscript-7.05-32.1.8
> gimp-print-4.2.4-5
> gnome-python2-1.99.14-5
> redhat-config-language-1.0.14-2

You'll have a much better chance of getting help if you define what "won't 
build" means.

Moreover, if you are using a centos release and cannot rebuild packages 
from source, then you should be reporting bugs against each package in 
bugzilla.

---
Charlie



From ivo at tijhaar.com  Tue Jun 29 12:55:04 2004
From: ivo at tijhaar.com (Ivo Tijhaar)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:55:04 +0200
Subject: [cAos] Problems rebuilding some packages
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406291543290.27250-100000@e-smith.charlieb.ott.istop.com>
Message-ID: <000d01c45e12$f90fefd0$0306a8c0@ivo>

I'm using red hat AS3 from official cd's to build. Mean while i had some
help of other people building the packages. The only package that won't
build is:

gimp-print-4.2.4-5 also after editing the spec file (bootstrap) the package
fails building:

Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files
/var/tmp/gimp-print-4.2.4-buildroot
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/share/man/man1/ijsgimpprint.1.gz


RPM build errors:
    Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
   /usr/share/man/man1/ijsgimpprint.1.gz

Any ideas?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Brady" <charlieb-caos at budge.apana.org.au>
To: "Ivo Tijhaar" <ivo at tijhaar.com>
Cc: <caos at caosity.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [cAos] Problems rebuilding some packages


>
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Ivo Tijhaar wrote:
>
> > I'm building my own centos from de source packages provided by redhat.
>
> What are you using as a built platform?
>
> > Only the following packages won't build:
> >
> > at-3.1.8-47
> > ghostscript-7.05-32.1.8
> > gimp-print-4.2.4-5
> > gnome-python2-1.99.14-5
> > redhat-config-language-1.0.14-2
>
> You'll have a much better chance of getting help if you define what "won't
> build" means.
>
> Moreover, if you are using a centos release and cannot rebuild packages
> from source, then you should be reporting bugs against each package in
> bugzilla.
>
> ---
> Charlie




From laytonjb at charter.net  Tue Jun 29 16:29:12 2004
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:29:12 -0400
Subject: [cAos] nls_iso8859-1?
Message-ID: <40E1FB48.8010102@charter.net>

Hello,

   I'm trying to build my own iso install using cinch. Greg
has given me a good start but I'm having some trouble.
   I've got my iso built and I'm testing it on a sample machine.
cinch starts up fine and I get to the Hardware Detection phase
(first phase). It asks for the drivers, which are on the CD,
and I press enter and get thrown back to the "menu" screen.
   I took at look at the 'alt-f4' screen and see the following:

user.warn: klogd: Unable to identify CD-ROM format
...
user.err: klogd: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k 
nls_iso8859-1, errno=2


I google around a bit and found out that nls_iso8859-1 is used
by the iso9660 filesystem (makes sense). Does anybody have
any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? (BTW, iso9660
is built into the kernel as well as the Joliet extensions).

TIA!

Jeff



From laytonjb at charter.net  Tue Jun 29 16:50:21 2004
From: laytonjb at charter.net (Jeffrey B. Layton)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:50:21 -0400
Subject: [cAos] nls_iso8859-1?
In-Reply-To: <40E1FB48.8010102@charter.net>
References: <40E1FB48.8010102@charter.net>
Message-ID: <40E2003D.10003@charter.net>

Nix that - figured it out. Under NLS in the kernel,
8859_1 was not built into the kernel. Oops.
Sorry for the interruption.

Jeff

> Hello,
>
>   I'm trying to build my own iso install using cinch. Greg
> has given me a good start but I'm having some trouble.
>   I've got my iso built and I'm testing it on a sample machine.
> cinch starts up fine and I get to the Hardware Detection phase
> (first phase). It asks for the drivers, which are on the CD,
> and I press enter and get thrown back to the "menu" screen.
>   I took at look at the 'alt-f4' screen and see the following:
>
> user.warn: klogd: Unable to identify CD-ROM format
> ...
> user.err: klogd: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k 
> nls_iso8859-1, errno=2
>
>
> I google around a bit and found out that nls_iso8859-1 is used
> by the iso9660 filesystem (makes sense). Does anybody have
> any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? (BTW, iso9660
> is built into the kernel as well as the Joliet extensions).
>
> TIA!
>
> Jeff
>
> _______________________________________________
> cAos mailing list
> cAos at caosity.org
> http://www.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos
>



From greg at runlevelzero.net  Wed Jun 30 22:34:36 2004
From: greg at runlevelzero.net (Greg Kurtzer)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:34:36 -0700
Subject: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
In-Reply-To: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E412C16@ccc2003.4cd.net>
References: <380C0AED4D502940A061BFD92C0EDD3E412C16@ccc2003.4cd.net>
Message-ID: <20040701053436.GK10259@runlevelzero.net>

Ahh,... interesting. Try this:

Run through the installer again, and when you get to the stage2 menu, open a
shell. Then do the following:

   # echo "alias scsi_hostadapter mptscsih" >> /var/cinch/modules.conf
   # exit

And then continue with the installation. If anyone else on the list is using
this scsi device, please confirm the modules.conf entry.

Good luck!

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:05:02AM -0700, Fong, Milen told me:
> Hi Tom and cAos masters,
> 
> I am reposting this reply as yesterdays was done in html format and was larger than allowed message size.
> 
> Computers in other cabinet have only 1 NIC so they can't be the head. I have run the diagnostic commands as instructed below and here are the results
> 
> # chroot /newroot
> # cat /etc/modules.conf
> alias eth0 tg3
> alias eth1 tg3
> # Note: for use under 2.6, changes must also be made to modprobe.conf
> # lsmod
> module		Size		Used by	Not tainted
> tg3			42504		1	
> cloop			8388		0
> # lspci | grep SCSI
> 04:05.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic/Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c103
> 	0 (rev 07)
> 04:05.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic/Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c103
> 	0 (rev 07)
> # egrep 'kernel|root' /etc/grub.conf
> root (hd0,0)
> 	Kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.25-g.caos ro root=/dev/sda2
> # cat /boot/grub/device.map
> # device.map created by cinch (the cAos installer)
> (fd0)	/dev/fd0
> (hd0)	/dev/sda
> # ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda[1-9]
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	0	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	1	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	2	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda2
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	3	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda3
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	4	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda4
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	5	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda5
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	6	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda6
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	7	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda7
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	8	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda8
> brw-rw----	1	root	disk	8,	9	Mar 25 17:10 /dev/sda9
> # uname -r
> 2.4.25
> 
> Hopefully this gives you enough info to help me out.
> 
> Milen Fong
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Murphy, Thomas 
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:46 AM
> To: Fong, Milen
> Subject: FW: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
> 
> Can you run these diagnostics and get them to me or the mailing list (you will first need to join the mailing list)
> ?
> It dawned on me another way we could get all this running is to use a computer from the other cabinet as the head node. That would actually be a better use of resources. I do not know if those computers have two NICs. I suspect they might.
> ?
> BTW my phone at the lab is 510-495-2716
> ?
> ?? ... Tom
> ?
> tmurphy at contracosta.edu
> ?
> Computer Science program chair (http://contracosta/cs/)
> Director of Center for High Performance Computing (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
> ?
> 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> San Pablo, Ca 94806
> (510) 235-7800 X4348
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: caos-admin at caosity.org on behalf of Greg Kurtzer
> Sent: Thu 6/24/2004 10:27 AM
> To: caos at caosity.org
> Subject: Re: [cAos] FW: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
> OK, as soon as the package installation part completes, and you get back to the
> main menu, Choose the option to go into a shell (do not reboot at this time).
> 
> Then do the following commands, and send the output back here:
> 
> ?? # chroot /newroot
> ?? # cat /etc/modules.conf
> ?? # lsmod
> ?? # lspci | grep SCSI
> ?? # egrep 'kernel|root' /etc/grub.conf
> ?? # cat /boot/grub/device.map
> ?? # ls -l /dev/sda /dev/sda[1-9]
> ?? # uname -r
> 
> It looks like the Dell Poweredge1750 utilizes an LSI Megaraid controller, and
> these Dells seem to commonly have issues with working with Linux (although it
> looks like in our kernel, the megaraid.c version should be sufficient).
> 
> Hopefully with the above information, we should be able to ascertain what is
> going on...
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 04:59:56PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> > My apologies. I responded to the email without first joining the mailing
> > list. I have rectified that, and have resubmitted my response to Greg
> >
> >??? ... Tom
> >
> > tmurphy at contracosta.edu
> >
> > Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
> > Director of Center for High Performance Computing
> >????? (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> > MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
> >
> > 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> > San Pablo, Ca 94806
> > (510) 235-7800 X4348
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Murphy, Thomas
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:47 PM
> > To: 'Greg Kurtzer'; caos at caosity.org
> > Cc: Fong, Milen
> > Subject: RE: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
> >
> > Silly me. I went to the wrong list. I was so focused on getting Warewulf
> > a running.
> >
> > I got through install wonderfully (twice). The problem came with the
> > first boot (multiple times)
> >
> > It is a Dell Poweredge 1750 with the following connectors
> >
> > ????? Rear: two RJ-45, one 9-pin serial, Universal Serial Bus (USB),
> > Video,
> > ????? PS/2 mouse, PS/2 keyboard, one server management port,
> > ????? external 68-pin VHDC SCSI port, ID push button with blue/amber
> > LED
> >?
> >? ???? Front: 1 Universal Serial Bus (USB), video,
> > ????? ID push button with blue/amber LED
> >
> > So I am going to presume it is a 68-pin VHDC SCSI drive.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >??? ... Tom
> >
> > tmurphy at contracosta.edu
> >
> > Computer Science program chair(http://contracosta/cs/)
> > Director of Center for High Performance Computing
> >????? (http://contracosta.edu/hpc/)
> > MCHS robotics coach (http://contracosta.edu/robotics/)
> >
> > 2600 Mission Bell Drive
> > San Pablo, Ca 94806
> > (510) 235-7800 X4348
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Kurtzer [mailto:greg at runlevelzero.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:39 PM
> > To: caos at caosity.org
> > Cc: Fong, Milen; Murphy, Thomas
> > Subject: Re: [Warewulf] cAos certified installed but doesn't boot
> >
> > Hrmm... Warewulf or cAos list? I am responding back to the caos list...
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:32:13PM -0700, Murphy, Thomas told me:
> > > We are attempting to install cAos certified on a dual Dell 2.4 GHz
> > Intel
> > > Xeon processor. We basically took the default on all cinch CD
> > > installation options (aside from specifying IP, rather than DHCPing).
> > We
> > > selected base and server packages.
> > >
> > > We get an error message
> > >???? failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 errrno=2
> > >???? unable to mount root fs on 08:02
> > >???? append correct root=boot option.
> > >
> > > I am a self admitting Linux weenie though I have been using Unix since
> > > the 70s. I pick up sys admin knowledge as I need to.
> > >
> > > I need knowledge now. For what it is worth, my hunch is cAos is not
> > > supporting this Dell CPU. I'd give it a 10% chance of being right.
> > >
> > > Greg will soon be kidding around, so I suspect I will get to know some
> > > new kindred spirits.
> >
> > When did you get this error? During install, or first boot?
> >
> > What kind of disks does this system utilize (SATA, SCSI, IDE, etc..)?
> >
> > :)
> > --
> > Greg M. Kurtzer
> > http://runlevelzero.net/
> > http://caosity.org/
> > http://warewulf-cluster.org/
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