[Planetlab-devel] Help for boot a node!

[Thierry Parmentelat]

hi there

bootmanager logs are in principle uploaded on the myplc side in /var/log/bm
raw log files are stored in raw/ and then symlinks are created in the other subdirs to help navigating in the mess :)

the bm logic is to first start a failsafe sshd instance, that runs in the context of the bootcd
the regular sshd, that runs in the context of the hard-drive, can be triggered only later on, after a successful kexec can be triggered from the installed hdd

the failsafe sshd uses the key from /etc/planetlab/debug_ssh_key*, while the regular sshd accepts connections using any public key attached to an administrator, as well as the one from  /etc/planetlab/root_ssh_key*
You should thus try these keys according to the stage where the installation failed

this being said, if the node could not use a network interface at all, then of course you're out of luck with any of this; but it might also be that the bootCD could setup the interface and the hard-drive install could not..


in any case, for any further assistance, please provide your precise release info, as found in /etc/myplc-release

hope this helps -- thierry

On Aug 26, 2010, at 9:27 AM, liyong 00164768 wrote:

> 
> Hi all:
>    When we boot the node using the ISO file downloaded from our MyPLC webpage,some errors
> always occurs, such as: 
>    1.failed to bring up the eth0!
>    2.no such files :/etc/resolv.conf
>    3.there is no server to be used!
> PS:these errors occurs at different stage in the boot process.
>    Finally, when the boot process end, the message of "This node is not fully booted!Try to 
> login with root!" and when we login with root and the corresponding password, the state of 
> the node in the MyPLC webpage still remain "failboot"! Could anyone tell us how to resolve 
> this problem and boot the node successfully? or could someone tell us where I can find out 
> the log file of this boot process?
>    Thanks a lot!
> 
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