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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:14:34 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade test from
 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0?
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Nope.  Works just fine in both my cougar and in my USB CF card reader.

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:06:50 -0700 Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
wrote:

> Are you able to reproduce this with the flash that Sandrine has?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:03 PM
> To: Sandrine Boulanger
> Cc: Brian Stark; Caeli Collins; Bill Duffy; dl-Customer-Engineering;
> Ed Kwan Subject: Re: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster
> upgrade test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0?
> 
> OK, in this one, both CF slots are having problems, physical slot 0 is
> disabled during bootup right off the bat, and the kernel (which is
> loaded off ps0) tries to mount and use the root filesystem off of ps1.
> But that has problems as well and the system craps out since it can't
> find a useable root filesystem.  But everyone probably knew that
> already.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:44:58 -0700 Sandrine Boulanger
> <sandrine.boulanger@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > The whole system went weird at some point; the leds next to the
> > flashes were not lit so I could not figure out who was primary or
> > secondary. I'm good now on cslab7. On cslab6, the flash I was
> > booting off kept crashing in loop with kernel panic
> > 
> > Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
> > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(2,0)
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> > partitions: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
> > on unknown-block(2,0)
> > 
> > I removed that flash, do you want it? I've attached more console log
> > when booting off that bad flash.
> > 
> > 
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Brian Stark
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:57 AM
> > To: Sandrine Boulanger; Caeli Collins; Bill Duffy;
> > dl-Customer-Engineering Cc: Ed Kwan; Andy Sharp
> > Subject: RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0?
> > 
> > OK, one of the theories that Andy and I were exploring was that the
> > kernel actually mounted the secondary flash as the primary.  This
> > could potentially happen if the kernel thought there was an issue
> > with the real primary.  This fits with your observation that the
> > system didn't go through an install wizard and wasn't running the
> > version you expected.
> > 
> > I don't see anything in the SSC console output to suggest the kernel
> > actually mounted the secondary as the primary, but maybe Andy has a
> > different take.
> > 
> > On this system, can you send the results of the 'mount' command from
> > the Linux prompt?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Sandrine Boulanger
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:20 AM
> > To: Brian Stark; Caeli Collins; Bill Duffy; dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Cc: Ed Kwan; Andy Sharp
> > Subject: RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [X]
> > From: Brian Stark
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:11 AM
> > To: Sandrine Boulanger; Caeli Collins; Bill Duffy;
> > dl-Customer-Engineering Cc: Ed Kwan; Andy Sharp
> > Subject: Re: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0?
> > 
> > 
> > Were any of the CFs swapped prior to the config reset?
> > 
> > > no, but the weird thing is, when I logged in after the reboot, it
> > > did not go through the install wizard, and it was running a
> > > different version so I suspect that for some reason, it went to
> > > the secondary flash. On that flash, /dev/sdb is there. So I
> > > mounted the other flash, and indeed, /dev/sdb is missing on the
> > > other one:
> > 
> > cslab6:~# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> > cslab6:~# ls /mnt/dev/sdb
> > ls: /mnt/dev/sdb: No such file or directory
> > 
> > so I will save that flash.
> > Do we have any console messages from cslab6 while it was booting?
> > > yes, attached.
> >  << File: cslab6-ssc-console >>
> > 
> > [X]
> > From: Sandrine Boulanger
> > To: Caeli Collins; Bill Duffy; dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Cc: Ed Kwan; Brian Stark
> > Sent: Wed Mar 11 10:04:01 2009
> > Subject: RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0?
> > 
> > After a system config reset it's working again...
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Caeli Collins
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:57 AM
> > To: Sandrine Boulanger; Bill Duffy; dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Cc: Ed Kwan; Brian Stark
> > Subject: RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0? Save that bad flash please - Brian
> > will be interested. Caeli
> > 
> > 
> > _____________________________________________
> > From:   Sandrine Boulanger
> > Sent:   Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:40 AM
> > To:     Bill Duffy; dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Cc:     Ed Kwan
> > Subject:        RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster
> > upgrade test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0? Thanks, I'll build a new flash
> > then. I need to go back to 4.0.1 anyway for the upgrade.
> > _____________________________________________ From: Bill Duffy
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:35 AM
> > To: Sandrine Boulanger; dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Cc: Ed Kwan
> > Subject: RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0? I booted off a known good compact
> > flash and copied the customers config over.
> > _____________________________________________ From: Sandrine
> > Boulanger Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 10:12 PM
> > To: Sandrine Boulanger; dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Cc: Ed Kwan
> > Subject: RE: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade
> > test from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0? Cslab6 is having the problem again
> > about the /dev/sdb missing. How did we solve it at the customer site
> > the other day with mknod? cslab6:~# cslab6:~# ls /dev/sdb
> > ls: /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
> > cslab6:~#
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Sandrine Boulanger
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 6:29 PM
> > To: dl-Customer-Engineering
> > Subject: can I borrow (again!) cslab6/7 for a cluster upgrade test
> > from 4.0/1/0 to 4.0.2.0? It should not take more than a day. Let me
> > know by tomorrow morning if anybody is using it, thanks.
> > 
