If you hold down shift during the boot process, you have the option
of booting into Expert mode; this will cause clump/os to boot to a shell
rather than to the graphical interface. From this shell you can attempt
to insert the appropriate module for your network adapter (if autoprobing
failed), and/or configure your network and MOSIX manually. Type "halt" to
shut down the system. (Note that since the system resides in RAM you can't
hurt yourself too badly by rebooting the hard way if you have to -- unless
you have manually mounted any partitions rw, that is, and we don't
recommend doing so at this point.)
If you want to run clumpview, execute:
open -s -w -- clumpview --drone --svgalib |
This will force the node into 'drone' mode (local processes will not
migrate), and will force clumpview to use SVGALIB;
the open command will ensure that a separate vt is used.
Please be advised that the environment provided was initially
intentionally minimalistic; if you require additional files, or wish to
copy files from the system to another machine, your only option is
nc (netcat -- a great little utility, btw), or mfs if MOSIX is
configured. From version R5.4 on size is no longer a primary
consideration.
Expert mode (and clump/os for that matter) is 'single-user';
this is one of the reasons that utilities such as ssh are not included.
These and other similar decisions were made in order to keep clump/os
relatively small, and do not affect cluster operation.
From version R5.4, if you experience problems in Expert Mode, you
can boot into Safe Mode; in Safe Mode no
attempt is made at autoconfiguration.