Title: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG motherboard
Hey Martin:
 
A quick way to test whether the network card is supported is to boot off the first CD.  Boot into rescue mode (linux rescue) and it should give you the option to start up the network - if it works, then you know it is supported.
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 03/06/2005 12:14 AM
To: Bernard Li
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with supermicro X5DPA-GG motherboard


I have asked supermicro if the incompatibility is just a network card
problem. As I say, the distribution seems to install OK, and the machines
appear to be fine once installed in all aspects, apart from the networking.

I have also asked them if their motherboards support Fedora Core 2 or 3, but
as their site doesn't mention these, so I am guessing they do not.

PS. I have changed the subject, in case anyone else has this problem with
this motherboard.

Thanks again for your help.


Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi Martin:
>
> Unfortunately, OSCAR currently only supports one distribution at a time -
> so either you use Red Hat Linux 9 on all the nodes, or Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 3.
>
> I guess you have 2 choices:
>
> 1) Use network cards which are compatible with RHEL3
> 2) Use Red Hat Linux 9
>
> If you are going to go back to Red Hat Linux 9, you may be better off
> using a newer distribution like Fedora Core 2 or 3, since we will no
> longer be supporting Red Hat Linux 9 for our next release.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thu 02/06/2005 5:43 AM
> To: Bernard Li
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with gigabit ethernet
> controllers
>
>
>
>
> Well, I found out the problem. The SuperMicro X5DPA-GG is not compatible
> with RedHat Linux Enterprise v3.
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/E7501Compatibility.cfm
>
> So I guess I have to use RedHat 9.0 on these nodes instead.
>
> Would there be any problem if I use one OS (RH Enterprise 3) on one set
> of
> nodes and another OS (RH 9) on the newer ones? Or should the cluster run
> the same OS on all nodes?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Martin Bates
>
> Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > What does /etc/modules.conf look like on the 2 types of nodes?
> > SystemConfigurator should be able to figure out that the new nodes need
> > the module but not the old nodes.  Therefore I'm not sure why it isn't
> > working.
> >
> > However, one solution is to create different images for different
> nodes,
> > but it's best that you use one image to make things simplier (if you
> > can).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:09
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [Oscar-users] Oscar installation with gigabit
> > > ethernet controllers
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I am installing Oscar on a cluster made up of older machines
> > > (with 100Mbit
> > > ethernet cards) and then some newer machines with Supermicro X5DPA-GG
> > > motherboards, which have dual intel82541 gigabit ethernet cards.
> > >
> > > The installation runs OK on the newer machines, but when it comes to
> > > testing, I get the error that the network is unreachable. Also if I
> > > physically log on to the nodes, I cannot ssh back to the host
> > > or to other
> > > nodes.
> > >
> > > I understand that this is probably just a problem starting
> > > the network cards
> > > and I need to alias the ethernet controllers in the
> > > /etc/modules.conf as
> > >
> > > alias eth0 e1000
> > > alias eth1 e1000
> > >
> > > for these nodes only.
> > >
> > > What is the best way to do this? Do I need to do two
> > > installs, one for the
> > > older nodes, then one for the newer ones?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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