RE: smp, newconfig, hdama
Ron, is the T23 running linuxbios? When I joined the list (though I later left) and was reading back-issues, I vaguely remember you as having said you couldn't get it on your lappy due to IBM's chipset detail stinginess; has any/all of that changed, or am I perhaps hallucinating? I have access to a fairly largish supply of A22-M series, and as president of my local student ACM chapter (named Beta Iota Tau, nerdily enough) am desparately searching for more projects for the upcoming semester/year. Short Summary: Does linuxBios work on your T23? If so, can I have all the juicy (or at least some moderately damp) details? TIA, -David H. Barr. >thank you, that did it. I now have an HDAMA running as a 2-cpu bproc > slave >node, in 32-bit mode, with an IBM T23 laptop as the master. >ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: EPIA DOC - Via wont give out info..
FWIW: EMJ America Inc. ( http://www.emjembedded.com ) has told me that they will have the new M-Systems MD-2802-D08 DiskOnChip "Millenium Module", 8MB available in mid-November for $23 USD / ea. It's supposed to be the "same" as the M-Systems MD-2800-D08 DiskOnChip "Millenium", 8MB. Whether or not that is an accurate statement remains to be seen. I can't order a 2800 anywhere, to compare. -dBarr. >All my efforts to find out anything from via about the DOC option on >their >EPIA Motherboards has gone in veign. They say that the DOC option is >discontinued, and that they will not release any info. > >BOO! > >I guess the next thing to do is break out the logic analyzer and see what >the pad does on startup. Either that or buy a DOC chip and see if it >works.. > >Anyone have any other suggestions? > >-N ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Fastest Standalone Boot Solution?
First of all, kudos to Andrew Ip for blazing a trail exactly where I want to go :-) After reading two years' worth of mailing list archives (!), I see what kind of struggle it's been to get the m810 walkthrough where it is today. My question, after looking over the various alternatives, is this: What Is Going to Provide the Fastest Boot Solution? I'm going with the pcchips m810clmr (Duron 1.2) board, with 2 generic 512 MB sticks on it. This will be a standalone full-distro machine, at least to start with. Every other piece of hardware that I purchase and install will be based on whatever is going to produce the shortest power-up/init/ready-to-rock time. I believe someone (Eric?) mentioned a month or two ago that a lot of their machines ended up being solo jobs. I would be very interested to hear what that person had to say about speed comparisons. Regards, -dBarr. PS: ca. 3-5 months ago, it was noted that the pcchips m810 line had a bit of trouble just hanging for no apparent reason. I assume this was taken care of, since the discussion dropped off the list. Anyone care to deny or confirm? ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
freebios.org redirect is DOWN
As of 18:38 CST, the redirect from freebios.org to http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/ is DOWN. Do I know what happened? Nope. Do you? -dBarr. ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
RE: STATUS file
Anything wrong with '|'? ... >OOPS! Hmm, what's a sensible separator then? >ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
m810clmr (SiS730S) Plan Of Attack
I want my uni to do something non-MS based, so I've opted to try and win them over to a fully open source solution. Eventually I'd like to have a small (5 nodes or so) system to benchmark various clustering setups on (openMOSIX, Scyld, SCORE, OSCAR, clustermatic, etc.), but first I have to show them it can be done. My goal then is to impress the Computer Science Faculty and Staff with an inexpensive, fast-booting, stable, speedy Linux wundernode; and then present a "Fund Me for a Few More Penguins" speech which will cause them to loosen the purse strings. Maybe if they'd stop buying extra copies of Exchange Server... but I digress. At any rate, even if I 'fail', I still have a really cool toy, and a lot of valuable experience. Here's my List of Things to Acquire(TM): 0) pcchips m810clmr (SiS730S) w/ Duron 1.2 ($77) 1) 1GB PC 133 RAM ($25/ea. 512MB; $50 total) 2) DiskOnChip MD-2008-D08 ($25) 3) MATX Case ($19) 4) IDE2CF Adapter ($21?) 5) CF Media ($40 - $???) 6) Optional HDD (ca. $50) All told, I'm looking at about $USD 300 per node, which is in my opinion quite reasonable. So what am I waiting for? Why, someone to poke obvious holes in my hastily conceived plan, of course. Good questions to answer would be: - Did I overlook some incredibly obvious component / requirement? - Can I do the three-step (DOC -> CF -> HDD) boot? - Should I avoid a particular brand of CF Media? - What size CF should I aim for? - Do you have a sample of a pcchips m810lmr config lying around? - Is my cost analysis fairly complete and realistic? Some of these questions are inane enough that they may not warrant flooding the whole list with responses. Direct replies ( david.barr (at) student.oc.edu ) are welcome, especially if you've done time on the SiS730S. -dbarr. PS: Apologies for the ugliness of my previous post to the list: that'll teach me to send mail from lab computers during class. ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
openBIOS and freeBIOS relative to linuxBIOS
Are they dead? After I finished reading through the last three months of mail here, I headed out to a few similar projects to keep digging. Only thing is, the last real post-y type stuff I can find is July ’02. Is LinuxBIOS the only one still going? Anyone here have a hand / foot / appendage in any of those other type projects?
