To: "Linwei Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "gareth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Please help: Intel PRO/E1000 GT network card
Did you make a boot disk, or click on <setup network boot> under "setup networking"? I am not sure where exactly your problem is starting. If it is possible, it would be helpful to see the oscarinstall.log file, and/or .
Michael, thanks a lot for your patience and warmhearted help. I quite understand the procedure on installing oscar nodes. I did click on "setup networking" before booting the client node from PXE. The PXE booting phase went through without problem, but the installation stopped on the "2.4.25-boel" kernel try to get dhcp ipaddress( I built the client image with "dhcp" option ). On console, the message shows that it tries to get dhcp address only from "lo"( pseudo-loop) interface -- that's a sign that none physical network card ( should be eth0 ) has been detected. After several minutes, it aborted with the reason that it can't find the network card. And it left a shell, which I can use "uname -a" to find out that the kernel running is "2.4.25-boel" -- this is the "systemimage" kernel, right?
I did try to build my new "e1000 GT" ( which has chipset 82541PI chipset and only works with the newest driver from Intel ) against the systemimage kernel source on my current running "FC2 2.6.5-1smp" system, but it faild abnormaly, too abstrusive for me to get it straight.
So, yesterday, I have decided to give up on this "blade edge" network card, and looking for conservtive card such as "e1000 MT" or "Yukon" etc gigabit card. I'll have further testing on other cards once I got it later today.
Another thing I want to share with you is that I tweaked the non-functional network card problem:
1. install an old old network card on my computer;
2. boot from floppy disk because the old network card doesn't support PXE booting
3. install client node without problem
4. reboot then correct "/etc/modprobe" to "eth0 e1000".
5. reboot again then the network card works.
Even though I got achivement here but it obviously has two issues: too much admin work and still need to tweak on oscar server to make it accept new card Mac address of each client.
Anyway, after so much trouble I believe the easiest way would be use a recognizable network card.
From what you describe, it sounds like you are using a boot disk. If that is the case, I would try a direct PXE boot (which will probably involve going back and clicking the <setup network boot> option. This should avoid the problems with systemimager (or at least should get you past the DHCP part) since PXE booting doesn't use it.
Also, did you resolve your problems with your SATA/RAID disks not being recognised?
No good news for SATA none Software RAID. But I did figure out how to make the SATA disk looks like PATA in my BIOS ( Intel D915PCY mother board, set IDE option to "legcy" ). Then, everything goes well on installation on the first hard disk.
After the client machine setup, I made certain tweaking to get the SATA disk working:
1. Change the BIOS setting SATA to be "SATA" indeed. (using "enhanced" option in my bios ).
2. Of cause, the system would not boot. So, I need to boot from FC2 CD1, using "linux rescue" parameter.
3. after boot up from CD, mount disk filesystems under /mnt/systemimage, then "chroot" into it.
4. modify "/etc/fstab" and "/etc/mtab" properly ( from "/dev/hdaX" to "/dev/sdaX" )
5. rebuild initrd image
6. modify grub disk maps and reinstall grub to /dev/sda.
7. modify "/etc/modprobe" add "alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix"
8. reboot from hard disk, wow, gotcha.
Then I install the "mdadm" rpm on the client, and make the software raid partition for "/home", which is what we desired.
It seems there are still a lot admin work for me, but I think I can live with it. Anyway, nothing could be better if the coming OSCAR version can support SATA and software RAID directly.
Thanks.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:28:45 -0800, Linwei Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "gareth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Please help: Intel PRO/E1000 GT network card
> hi, i installed oscar on fedora 3 with the same network cards without > that
> problem. are you sure the dhcp server is running on the head node?
> did you click <configure dhcp server> and <setup network boot> under
> "setup networking" in the install?
Do you use "Intel PRO/E1000 GT" network card? I understand that "Intel PRO/E1000" series is popular well supported. But for "E1000 GT", it needs new driver from Intel ( version e1000-5.6.7 ). I am sure on this because Fedora2 Oscar4 server can't recognize this card until I downloaded and installed that driver.
>
> On Mon 2005-03-14 (17:44), Linwei Cheng wrote:
>> michael,
>>
>> Thanks for your good explanation. But I got more confused on the steps >> of
>> oscar nodes installation. For me, the node installation crushed in the
>> very
>> early phase, that it even couldn't setup it dhcp address nor connect >> to
>> the
>> server. I think the node did can boot from PXE because the mother >> board
>> and
>> e1000 card support it. Then, what's the next step on installing the >> nodes
>> by oscar? I think it will run the kernel of "Systemimager"(uder
>> /usr/share/systemimager/) which using scripts automatically download
>> "oscar
>> image" and setup the node. Only after we finished the node >> installation
>> and
>> reboot machine, the kernel of oscar client image start running.
>>
>> If all these are right, then my problem is the systemimager kernel >> can't
>> recognize "e1000 GT" network card, rather than the client image under
>> /var/lib/systemimager/oscarimage/. -- Because I couldn't even go >> through
>> the image "cloning".
>>
>>
>>
>> best regards,
>> linwei
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: "Linwei Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: "OSCAR" <oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net>;
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Please help: Intel PRO/E1000 GT network >> card
>>
>>
>> >Well if you can boot from networking, you are golden. That just >> >means
>> >you need to get the image fixed up and you can do that after it is
>> >created. This might be your problem too Amit, I hadn't considered >> >the
>> >network driver as a problem as the e1000 is usually one of the beter
>> >behaved cards (at least one that a couple of mine have always gotten
>> >mistaken for).
>> >
>> >Anyway, regardless of which driver you want to use, this is how I got
>> >my nodes with 3c2000T cards to boot nicely after cloning. This
>> >general process should work with a little tweaking for network cards
>> >in general. Filenames will have to be changed as appropriate, and I
>> >haven't puttered around with the e1000 driver so it might ask for
>> >different prereq files.
>> >
>> >This needs to be done on a cloned oscar node, so you need to install
>> >the following rpms on one
>> >kernel-doc
>> >kernel-source
>> >kernel-utils
>> >net-snmp-5 (or something like this)
>> >which are all on disk two.
>> >
>> >1) Download the 2.4 series driver from syskonnect.com
>> >2) Uses bz2 so untar with tar xjvf
>> >3) cd DriverInstall
>> >4) ./install.sh (pick user installation mode)
>> >5) Add the following to /etc/modules.conf
>> >
>> >alias eth0 sk98lin
>> >
>> >6) Driver is located in
>> >/lib/modules/2.4.20-8smp/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin
>> >
>> >If this node works on reboot, make the same changes to the image >> >file.
>> >So edit /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage/etc/modules.conf and
>> >copy the driver from the node to
>> >/var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage/lib/modules/2.4.20-8smp/kernel/drivers/net
>> >
>> >If you want it to work with the non smp kernel too, just put the
>> >driver in the same directory as above only without the smp. I only
>> >ever boot my nodes in smp, so you might need to compile the non-smp
>> >version separately, I am not sure.
>> >
>> >Hope this helps, even though its for a different card.
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:12:01 -0800, Linwei Cheng
>> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>Hello,
>> >>
>> >>I building OSCAR4 cluster on FC2 system. I am using the machines >> >>with
>> >>Intel's "PRO/E1000 GT" gigabit network card. I can boot from
>> >>networking,
>> >>but
>> >>it seems that the systemimage kernel doesn't recognize this network
>> >>card.
>> >>During client installation, the client machine stops on getting DHCP
>> >>ipaddress phase.
>> >>I had a look on the systemimage kernel, and found that the kernel >> >>only
>> >>support the old version of e1000, but my newest card requires >> >>version
>> >>e1000-5.6.7. I can download the new driver from Intel, but I how >> >>can I
>> >>build and insert the new driver module to let systemimage kernel
>> >>recognize
>> >>the network card??
>> >>Best Regards,
>> >>Linwei
>> >>
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