> Have you tried to load up bnx2 module on your head node and does it work?
What I meant by "does it work" is that the kernel module could be loaded up
successfully. It does not mean that you can have the network connection via
that kernel module because I assume that your head node does not have the
broadcom network card.
I hope that it is clear.
Regards,
--
- DongInn
On Mar 8, 2013, at 8:32 AM, DongInn Kim <di...@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> Costel,
>
>> What I would like to achieve is to have a single oscarimage and a single
>> BOEL kernel and initrd.img files that contains all the modules needed by my
>> 3
>> types of hardware.
>> Do you believe this would be possible?
> Well, this should be possible. That's why we use OSCAR. OSCAR is supposed to
> be able to host heterogenous cluster.
>
>> Do you have experience in replacing the NIC (bnx2.ko) module with an updated
>> one?
> I have setup an OSCAR cluster with bnx2x network driver and its firmware on
> ubuntu box
>
>> Can I force the creation of kernel and initrd.img files to include (really)
>> all the available drivers into my oscarimage?
> It is not really recommended but I think it is OK to update oscarimage
> directly as long as you know exactly what you are doing.
>
> BTW, I would like to clarify your problem.
>
> Can your second machine (e.g., 2nd M) do pxeboot properly?
> - Can 2nd M load up the bnx2 module and get the network connection?
> - Did it get the oscarimge through rsync or whatever you choose?
>
> How did you get the bnx2 module and its firmware?
>
> Have you tried to load up bnx2 module on your head node and does it work?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> - DongInn
>
> On Mar 8, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Costel Seitan <csei...@slb.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi DongInn,
>>
>> In fact I only have 1 oscarimage and what I did till now was to modify the
>> modules already available into the initrd.img
>> but not loaded during the boot phase. So I modified initrd.img generated by
>> systemimager with UYOK selected.
>> This worked with the first node.
>>
>> This is what I tried to do with the second node (but different hardware),
>> using the same kernel but with a modified initrd.file file.
>> The problem is that the bnx2.ko into the initrd.img is not the right one and
>> it does not contains all the requested .fw files.
>> I copied the module & .fw files present onto the master node but I got the
>> errors about the signature key.
>>
>> What I would like to achieve is to have a single oscarimage and a single
>> BOEL kernel and initrd.img files that contains all the modules needed by my
>> 3
>> types of hardware.
>> Do you believe this would be possible?
>> Do you have experience in replacing the NIC (bnx2.ko) module with an updated
>> one?
>> Can I force the creation of kernel and initrd.img files to include (really)
>> all the available drivers into my oscarimage?
>>
>> I know there are a lot of questions for one posted message. :-)
>>
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Costel SEITAN
>>
>>
>>
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