[Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc

[Chan, Winson C]

Marc,

I trace it to a possible hardware problem with USB on my laptop.  So I
moved on to using CD and it booted.  But I'm running into a different
problem.  On boot, the kernel, overlay.img, and boot.img were loaded.
However, the system halts a few minutes after.  The last thing it was
doing was the following.  

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver..
Usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
Umount: /dev/pts: not mounted
Umount: /tmp/tmp.uFmDiQh351: not found
shutdown: sending all processes the TERM signal...
shutdown: sending all processes the KILL signal.
shutdown: turning off swap
shutdown: unmounting all file systems
The system is halted. 
md: stopping all md devcies
md: md0 switced to read-only mode.
Shutdown: hda
System halted.


-----Original Message-----
From: Chan, Winson C 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 4:08 PM
To: 'Marc E. Fiuczynski'; devel at lists.planet-lab.org
Subject: RE: [Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc

Marc,

I got the error "Missing Operating System" when booting from USB.  I
want to verify with you what I did.

1. mount BootCD-3.3.usb /mnt/usb -o loop
2. cp planet.cnf /mnt/usb/plnode.txt
3. umount /mnt/usb
4. dd if=BootCd-3.3.usb of=/dev/sdb1
	Where /dev/sdb1 is the device FC3 assigns to my USB flash drive

Thanks.
Winson


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc E. Fiuczynski [mailto:mef at CS.Princeton.EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:50 PM
To: Chan, Winson C; Bound, Jim; devel at lists.planet-lab.org
Subject: RE: [Planetlab-devel] bootcd_v3 for wireless/mesh myplc

> Actually, I will be using DHCP for the wireless network. I'm making
the
> boot server be a dhcp server as well.  And when I select DHCP at the
PLC
> website, the primary DNS entries are grey out.  So, do I still need to
> worry about name resolution for the nodes?

No. Life should be good.

Marc