[tech] Medico outage update

[Sam Moore]

Perhaps we need to plot the size of the grub image against the version 
number to determine the rate at which to increase allocated space.

[SZM]

On 23/02/15 09:31, Frames wrote:
> Isn't this the second time this has happened to you bob?
> :-P
>
> [*OX]
> "Don't blame, learn"
>
> On 22/02/2015 8:59 PM, Andrew Adamson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just a quick update on what happened to medico on Friday night. Proxmox
>> needed to be upgraded from 2 (squeeze) to 3 (wheezy) because the web
>> interface was becoming unusable on version 2. I also want to set up the VM
>> cluster with maltair with all of them on the same version. Semester kinda
>> snuck up on me and I wanted to get this done before it started, so sorry
>> for the (very) short notice.
>>
>> Unfortunately during the upgrade, the new version of grub that was to be
>> installed was too big to fit in the allocated space on the disk. I was at
>> home at this point so tried to fix it remotely with little success. [TPG]
>> managed to get it booting using grub on a usb stick on Saturday morning,
>> and [DAA] is working on a permanent fix for it now.
>>
>> Aside from the bootloader, the rest of the upgrade went well, although no
>> machines started at boot because my partial cluster configuration meant
>> there was no quorum between only two hosts - they can be manually started
>> though. I'll be working on finishing the cluster setup in the next week or
>> so.
>>
>> Andrew Adamson
>> bob at ucc.asn.au
>>
>> |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them."                |
>> | ---Peter's Laws                                                        |
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