Re: [sisuite-users] RE : Which version ?

2013-01-16 Thread david . livingstone
Olivier,

Thanks. So far I have installed the rpm's on a dl380G7 with rhel6.3 x86_64 
and both prepared the image(uyok) and retrieved from
 a similar server with the server packages loaded.Next step will be to 
test load the image on another server using both the standard and uyok
( I'm a little gun shy tryingto load back to the same server incase there 
are problems).

I also re-applied the changes I've itemized below for the same reasons - 
btw the change below to rcS(start udev BEFORE load_my_modules) might
address why you had similar problems ie needing the pre-install script to 
load the modules).


 - 



David K Livingstone
CN Signals and Communications
10229 127 Avenue floor 2
Walker Operations East Building
Edmonton, AB, T5E 0B9
Ph  : 780 472-3959 Fax : 780 472-3046
Email: david.livingst...@cn.ca 



From:
LAHAYE Olivier olivier.lah...@cea.fr
To:
sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net 
sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date:
2013/01/07 02:05
Subject:
[sisuite-users] RE :  Which version ?


Hi,

You can try the 4.3.0-0.1svn version, it worked for me. You'll need pre 
and post-install scripts available here: 
http://olivier.lahaye1.free.fr/RPMS/extra/

Cheers,


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   Olivier LAHAYE
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De : david.livingst...@cn.ca [david.livingst...@cn.ca]
Date d'envoi : mercredi 19 décembre 2012 00:09
À : sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Objet : [sisuite-users] Which version ?


I have been using a modified version of  4.1.99.svn4556_bli-1 to load my 
i386 rhel6.x servers as 
described below. I am now looking at imaging similar machines but now with 
the x86_64 version 
of rhel6.3 so I need like initrd_template( and boot_standard if it works) 
packages.   

What  versions should I be trying ?  
http://olivier.lahaye1.free.fr/RPMS/noarch/   ?? 

Thanks 



David K Livingstone
CN Signals and Communications
10229 127 Avenue floor 2
Walker Operations East Building
Edmonton, AB, T5E 0B9
Ph  : 780 472-3959 Fax : 780 472-3046
Email: david.livingst...@cn.ca 
- Forwarded by David Livingstone/LIVING03/CNR/CA on 2012/12/18 16:00 
- 

From: 
David Livingstone/LIVING03/CNR/CA 
To: 
sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net 
Date: 
2012/03/29 09:41 
Subject: 
Loading RHEL 6.2 using 4.1.99.svn4556_bli-1



Using  systemimager  4.1.99.svn4556_bli-1(ext4 enabled version) I have 
successfully imaged a 
RHEL 6.2 image to HP DL380G7 hardware(p410 array controllers). I was 
considering using SALI 
however for RHEL6.x grub2 is not an issue and ext4 support is included in 
 4.1.99.svn4556_bli-1. 

The setup I was imaging is a Proliant DL380G7 server with two p410 
controllers(p401i and p410) 
with raid1 for root/boot/swap on the p410i and raid5 for /data on the 
p410. The system is running 
the latest RHEL 6.2. 

The attempted to image the system in two ways: 
1. standard kernel 
2. uyok 

1. standard kernel 
I eventually got this to work but only after major modifications to 
the install script and manually 
setting up grub.  The major issue here is that the default kernel uses 
the cciss driver and 
device naming(ex /dev/cciss/c0d0p2) and the RHEL6.x uses the hpsa 
driver(scsi naming ex /dev/sda). 
See 
http://h2.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02677069/c02677069.pdf 
 . 
In general RHEL 5.x and before uses the cciss driver and RHEL6.x uses 
the hpsa when possible. 
I presume the standard kernel could be built with the hpsa module and 
some version logic 
applied to resolve this. 

2. uyok 
This worked successfully after making some changes to address : 
 - Needed modules(ie hpsa) as symbolic links  under 
/lib/modules/(uname -r) 
   ex 
[root@scdev ~]# ls -al 
/lib/modules/2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.i686/weak-updates/hpsa/hpsa.ko 
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 Mar  5 04:05 
/lib/modules/2.6.32-220.4.2.el6.i686/weak-updates/hpsa/hpsa.ko - 
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.i686/extra/hpsa/hpsa.ko 
[root@scdev ~]# 
This results in the modules not being copied correctly in the 
generated initrd.
 I resolved this by modifying the UseYourOwnKernel.pm rsync 
invocations 
 to copy the resultant files(the L rather then the l option. I 
include the diff 
 below. 

- Numerous /lib/firmware files were missing in the initrd. By default 
the 
  bnx2 nic driver(driver for the four nic's on the motherboard) as 
well as 
  others in the RHEL6.2 kernel request firmware which is missing in 
the 
  uyok initrd. I got this to work by : 
   - modifying UseYourOwnKernel.pm to copy /lib/firmware to the 
initrd. 
 Unfortunately this copies all of firmware as I couldn't figure 
out how to 
 dynamically copy what was needed. 
   - modified rcS under the std template to start udev BEFORE the 
modules 
 are inserted. 
- rcS : start udev before loading modules. 
   - under the std template : 

 /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/initrd_template/etc/init.d/rcS
- The ramdisk_size must be set 

Re: [sisuite-users] RE : Which version ?

2013-01-07 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
Dear Olivier,

Regarding the SVN version, can you kindly give explicit UNIX commands 
for downloading from SVN?  I do not know the location of the mentioned 
SVN repository.

Thanks a lot,
Ole

On 01/07/2013 10:04 AM, LAHAYE Olivier wrote:
 Hi,

 You can try the 4.3.0-0.1svn version, it worked for me. You'll need pre
 and post-install scripts available here:
 http://olivier.lahaye1.free.fr/RPMS/extra/

-- 
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Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark

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