On 02/23/2015 12:40 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > > On 02/20/2015 11:22 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote: >> On 02/13/2015 01:00 AM, Olli-Pekka Lehto wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I’d be interested to hear if people have deployed or upgraded CentOS/EL 7 >>> on their clusters and what their experiences are? Also in the more general >>> sense, what kind of distro upgrade philosophy do you follow? Are there a >>> long-term roadmaps that you build internally, for example? >>> >>> Recently I’ve had some internal discussions about the prospect schedule of >>> upgrading our systems from CentOS 6.x to 7. I’m not really keen on >>> upgrading a major distro version unless there is a _really_ compelling >>> reason to do so, especially as we have driver dependencies to Mellanox IB, >>> Lustre, Tesla and Xeon Phi as well as a lot of ISV codes. However, it would >>> be nice to hear what the current pain/benefit ratio of such an upgrade is. >> >> >> One issue hindering me: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177032 >> kickstart install on machine with infiniband interfaces crashes > > First, I admit to not understanding the problem in the bug report 100%. Is it > possible that you could pass a kernel argument to tell it not to try to probe > for IB interfaces, or something similar. I know this works for video cards, > etc., when they cause an install to hang. > > Prentice
It's actually quite probable that if I didn't try to configure the ipoib interface in kickstart the install would go fine. -- Orion Poplawski Technical Manager 303-415-9701 x222 NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702 3380 Mitchell Lane [email protected] Boulder, CO 80301 http://www.nwra.com _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
