[cAos-devel] Upgrading cAos kernel?

[Greg Kurtzer]

Michael seems to already have the kernel update in testing for caos2,  
and I am building caos3 kernel and iso update now. Should be ready in  
a day or so. I will send a notice to the primary caos list when I get  
the caos server 3 beta3 posted for initial testing.

BTW: Stateless is cool, give it a whirl. ;)

Thanks and good luck!

Greg

On Jan 14, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Tim Leger wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
>     Thanks for the quick reply.  To be honest, it doesn't really  
> matter
> which version of cAos I use, just as long as I can get the motherboard
> SATA controller and Ethernet port to work.  While the hardware is  
> all 64
> bit and I plan on using the 64 bit version of cAos, I do remember
> installing some 32 bit libraries (libstda++.so.5 if I recall) to  
> satisfy
> the Intel compilers we use.  The troublesome motherboards are for a
> small (16 node) Beowulf cluster that I was asked to setup similar  
> to the
> 96 node cluster I'm in charge of at the university.  On our 96 node
> cluster, I used cAos 2.2.2b and setup system imager with pxe boot to
> handle cloning the 92 compute nodes as they were turned on along with
> Torque to manage job submission and queuing.  I didn't chose to use
> warewulf since each compute node has a hard drive for local scartch
> space and using a small amount for the system made sense.  For the few
> months our 96 node cluster has been up, it's been running great.  This
> is probably the reason I was asked to setup this other 16 node  
> cluster,
> just wish now I had been involved in choosing the hardware, lol.
>     As I said earlier, I did manage to get cAos installed by using a
> borrowed SATA controller card.  Is there a way to just replace the
> forcedeth and sata_nv modules with newer ones so they would support  
> the
> motherboard chipset or would it be better to upgrade the kernel
> instead?  I'd like to get this fixed as soon as possible, but I  
> realize
> you probably have a lot of other things you're working on regarding  
> the
> new release.  I really appreciate your help and keep up the good work.
>
> Thanks, Tim Leger
>> 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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