[cAos-devel] Upgrading cAos kernel?

[Greg Kurtzer]

Hiya, I have it on my todo list to upgrade Caos server 3 and that  
version of Cinch to the 2.6.18 kernel, but just havent had much of a  
chance yet. What is your priority level on this?

Will Caos server 3 meet your application and library requirements for  
this system/cluster, or will you be sticking to Caos-2?

Thanks,
Greg

On Jan 14, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Tim Leger wrote:

> Hello,
>
>    I've been using cAos 2.2.2b for about 6 month now on a 96 node
> cluster.  Great distribution, I've really come to like the  
> simplicity of
> the cAos distribution over the Mandrake distros I used to use.  I'm  
> now
> trying to install cAos on a new set of machines which have ASUS M2N-MX
> motherboards.  I've tried installing both the cAos 2.2.2b and newer  
> cAos
> 3 beta 2 with no success because neither one can see the built-in SATA
> controller, which is an nVidia nForce430 chipset (more specifically  
> the
> mcp61).   When cinch comes up, it reports that it can't find any
> drives.  To get around this, I've temporarily borrowed a SATA  
> controller
> card from another machine and was able to get cAos 3 beta 2 installed.
> However, the SATA controller on the motherboard still doesn't work  
> after
> installing cAos and I can't keep the borrowed controller card in this
> machine for long.  When I plug the drive back into the onboard
> controller port after installing cAos, it fails to boot completely  
> with
> a kernel panic and the message that the SATA port link is down.
>    I've done some digging around on the web and supposedly this is a
> know problem which was fixed in the 2.6.18 and above kernels.  Is  
> there
> a way to upgrade the current 2.6.17 cAos kernel to a 2.6.18+  
> kernel?  I
> also thought about just installing the latest nVidia drivers, but
> nVidia's website states that the latest nForce motherboard drivers are
> distributed with the linux kernels.  I'd appreciate any help you could
> give me on how to fix this problem.
>
> Regards, Tim Leger
>
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