Generally it has been suggested that for a mixed architecture cluster that
the head node be x86_64. Then it has both the 32 and 64 bit libraries.
This is for building images with OSCAR though, I have no experience using
SIS out side of OSCAR myself.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:20 AM, RICHARD GREEN <gree...@u.washington.edu>wrote:
> I would appreciate it if anyone had any suggestions. I have posted
> questions several times to SIS and have received little no responses.
>
> I am running OSCAR 5.0 on a head node with rhel4.5 i386
> I have 2 client nodes with rhel4.5 i386
> I want to add 8 new nodes with rhel5 X64 bit and the hardware is slightly
> different
> I created a golden client with rhel5 X64
> Ran si_prepareclient successfully
> Ran si_getimage off of the head node successfully
> Ran integrate_image --arch x86_64 from golden client image and it
> integrated into my OSCAR setup successfully
>
> Then I added my clients sucessfully.
>
> Now the struggle has been systemimager not pushing the golden client image
> onto the new nodes
>
> I found that the master node does not contain any
> directories for 64 bit in system imager, 32 bit yes but not 64. It does
> contain
> my golden client image which is 64 bit but nothing under SI standard 64 bit
> i.e
>
> /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/
>
> On the Client node there is SI 64 bit but nothing for 32 bit. So I did the
> following (below). I think this mismatch is what caused sytemconfigurator
> to initially to fail. Does the head node need SI64 bit? I dont think I can
> install that on since the OS is i386 correct? I thought copying the the 64
> bit tools in the /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/ directory
> could work since the client node is just looking for the kernel and
> initrd.img to get started.
>
> I logged on to the golden client and copied the standard 64 bit directory
> from
> system imager onto the master node. I made a new install-kernel-x86_64 file
> by
>
> cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/initrd.img
> install-initrd-x86_64.img
>
> and
>
> cp /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/kernel
> install-kernel-x86_64
>
> Created /tftpboot/install-x86_64 with this content:
> #--- install-x86_64 ---
> DEFAULT systemimager
> DISPLAY message.txt
> PROMPT 1
> TIMEOUT 50
> LABEL systemimager
> KERNEL install-kernel-x86_64
> APPEND vga=extended initrd=install-initrd-x86_64.img root=/dev/ram
> MONITOR_SERVER=192.168.8.1
>
> Updated /etc/netbootmgr.conf with this menu option
> MENU Install_64bit:install-x86_64
>
> Went into the net boot mgr GUI in OSCAR and set it to boot up the 64 bit
> Image.
> Booted up the new client node and watched to see if it would capture the
> image.
>
> System imager begins to load but fails a lot faster this time with this
> error
> Error: could not stat device /dev/sda no such file or directory
> and
> Error: the location 106.97 is outside the device /dev/sda
>
> I began to gave up on the SI 64 bit kernel idea and thought I would try the
> rhel5 kernel in the golden client image except this time I would create the
> install-*-x86_64 files from the golden
> client image. This just lead to another kernel panic error.
>
> Again if anyone is out there that can provide me any support I would really
> appreciate it
>
> Thanks
>
> -Rich
>
>
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