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List:       npaci-rocks-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Rocks-Discuss] Initial Boot hang-up
From:       "Greg Bruno" <greg.bruno () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-03-26 21:44:04
Message-ID: e572dbf60703261444y46e35c2qd3a22dadb9d067a2 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 3/26/07, Nassar, Samuel (LTJG) <srnassar@nps.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 15 identical dual processor blade servers with Dual Core AMD
> Opteron running at 1800 MHz with 4 Gigs of ram.  ROCKS was successfully
> installed on every machine (including frontend) except one.
>
> I am trying to install this last node and it hangs up while booting off
> the lastest x86-64 DVD from the website. I tried creating another boot
> roll disk with no luck. I also tried booting via PXE with no luck. It
> seems to be a hardware issue. What I can't understand is why this
> problem would only occur on one machine when I have 14 identical others
> that boot into Anaconda fine.
>
> The boot runs normally until it gets to "RAMDISK: Compressed image found
> at block 0". It usually hangs up here for a good minute or two, but then
> moves on to "running /sbin/loader" where it hangs up overnight.

sounds like a memory issue.

reseat the memory DIMMs and then run memtest86 on the node to verify
that the memory subsystem is functional.

 - gb

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