Hi Bernard,
Thank you for your assisdtance. I used systemimager 3.90 src and
patched it with the > 10 marvel driver and successfully built my cluster
forv fc7 8 nodes
with 3 p5k-vm and 5 p5b-vm mobos.
Cheers,
Good Morning!
Allan
Bernard Li wrote:
I cannot help you with any errors with a patched version of
SystemImager, because I do not know what you did.
What I have been trying to tell you is to test an unpatched version of
SystemImager _with_ UYOK. Using the stock SystemImager kernel/ramdisk
will not work for obvious reasons because 2.6.21 kernel does not have
support for your network card.
Your only hope of getting this to work is if the system you run
si_prepareclient has a working kernel module that supports your
network card. si_prepareclient creates a kernel/ramdisk via UYOK.
If you have problems running si_prepareclient, post the errors here
and I'll see if I can help.
Regards,
Bernard
On 7/13/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Bernard,
Bernard Li wrote:
I would not recommend you to patch SystemImager yourself -- it can be
somewhat involved.
OK
You rebuilt Fedora 7's kernel so that it supports your network
hardware, correct? So, you should be able to use UYOK with an
unpatched version of SystemImager and it should be able to generate
working kernel/ramdisk to boot up your client -- have you tried that?
Yes I tried an unpatched ver of systemimager sorry it was ver 4061 not 4063
but the client p5k-vm mobo does not see the nic ( marvell) and boot fails
but the p5b-vm with realtek rtl811b/8168 boots and installs
So i have to patch the systemimager kernel for this mobo. The exact errors
it comes up with on boot for a patched systemimager are:
tar: Unknown typeflag: 0x4c
tar: Unrecognised file type
Killing off running processes
...
busybox prompt
...
# tar
tar: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
#
As long the server you are running si_prepareclient from has the
correct marvell network module, the script should pull it and put it
in the ramdisk.
It does not get that far i must be doing something stupid but i do not know
what.
You mentioned numerous times regarding "initrd.img not found" but can
you please post the exact error message? It is hard to troubleshoot
without the exact errors.
Sorry about that i will get you the exact error message tommorrow. Right
now i am working on getting a src or 3.90.1 systemimager working.
THIS marvell card is not new. Its just that linux does not have proper
drivers for it yet even in linux-2.6.22.1
Plus patching linux-2.6.22.1 with marvels drivers comes up with a error on
make bzImage as this is from kernel.org and not from Fedora
I will have to wait till Fedora puts a new kernel that supports more nics.
Right now the fedora kernel ver latest is linux-2.6.21-3228.fc7.x86_64
Thank you,
Cheers,
Allan
Did you check if the 2.6.22 kernel has the drivers for your network
card? If so I will see about updating the SystemImager kernel to
2.6.22 but perhaps Andrea will beat me to it :-)
Cheers,
Bernard
On 7/13/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Bernard,
Sorry to bother you with details but Fedora & kernel did not support my
marvell 8056 out of the box. I had to recompile the src kernel from fedora
and patch the marvell driver in to get it to recognize the new head nodes
p5k-vm mobo and marvell gigabit pci express card.
I made a UYOK with cramfs in kernel and I had the problem that initrd.img
was not being loaded ( could not be found) even though it was there in
/tftpboot since I puit it there.
The only solution is to use a source kernel witth 2.6.22 ( but how do i do
that for systemimager 4063?)
Thank you,
Cheers,
Allan
Bernard Li wrote:
You said that Fedora 7's kernel support your hardware out of the box,
so the correct way to get this working is UYOK.
Therefore, please use the unpatched version of SystemImager and try
again with UYOK. If it fails, please provide the exact error messages
you see on screen.
Newer development versions of SystemImager are available, but somehow
I do not think that will solve your problem -- you can get them here:
http://download.systemimager.org/~arighi/systemimager/x86_64/
Another way to get around your problem is to update the SystemImager
kernel to 2.6.22, which hopefully includes the driver you need
(currently the kernel version is at 2.6.21).
Cheers,
Bernard
On 7/12/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Bernard,
the old systemimager 4063 works without a problem with the p5b-vm mobo
which has a realtek 8111b card and the tar error does not appear and the
node installs. It's only when i patch the kernel of systemimager-arighi-4063
with the marvel driver to support my 3 p5k-vm new mobo that all works that
is the ethernet driver loads, the boel binarires load but tar comes up with
an error and installation halts for all mobos p5b-vm or p5k-vm
Peculiar behaviour. I do not understand it!
Can you see if there is a solution either with UYOK or a newer systemimager
kernel. can you point me to a newer systemimager than 4063 src?
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
Allan
Bernard Li wrote:
I thought we had this issue before where you atftp-server does not
like symlink of the kernel + ramdisk -- can you please check?
Regards,
Bernard
On 7/12/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Bernard,
Bernard Li wrote:
If you boot the server with Fedora 7, does it correctly enable your
network?
yes
If so, using UYOK with Fedora 7 kernel should work.
I tried the command si_prepareclient --server 192.168.1.1 --no-rsyncd and
also the GUI UYOK
but the client tries to boot and comes up with repeatedly
Loading kernel .......
Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img anad bot files are there in
/tftpboot
Any other thing that s wrong. Please give me a suggestion .
Allan
Cheers,
Bernard
On 7/12/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
I need some help installing oscar for the p5k-vm mobo for fc7 x86_64.
The p5k-vm has a marvell yukon 8056 gig nic that sky2 or skge does not
support .
So I downloaded Arighi's systemimager 4063 src systemimager code.
I also downloaded the marvell driverv with the 10.0 ... driver sk98lin
for the nic and patched the linux-2.6.21 systemimager kernel
i did after configure and make gconfig and copying the .config to the
linux.x86_64.config in the ./patches dir
gave the following commands make binaries make install binaries and
copied the the kernel and initrd.img to /tftpboot
from /etc/systemimager/x86_64/boot/standard
but when i boot the client p5k machine it sees the marvel nic but
downloads the boel binaries and then comes up with a tar error:
tar wrong file file type
It halts and comes to the # prompt when i type tar it comes up with a
library error librt.so.1 file or directory missing. i go to /lib and it
is not there
All this is beta so it is hard to debug and the p5k-vm is the latest
mobo and quite cheap $135.00 cdn
But the marvel nic is not supported by systemimagers sky2 drivers so one
has to patch it with the marvel driver when it sees the card otherwise
it wont.
I tried UYOK without much success.
Any help would be appreciated very much and woulkd help oscar users with
new mobo s and distro install and use oscar.
Thank you,
Allan Menezes
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