RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

[Bernard Li]

Title: RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

The development version of SystemImager does use 2.6 kernel, I am trying to get that going as well.

 

I might be able to do something 'creative' with the autoinstall script to get around the hda/sda issue.

 

Thanks for your help - the kernel you have built is very useful as it is!

 

Cheers,

 

Bernard

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Mueller
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:44
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net; sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

I am using the latest libata patch for 2.4.25.  If it picks it up as /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda then there is nothing we can do.  Unless you are a kernel hacker, of course.  The only real solution is to nudge the SI guys into moving to a newer 2.4 or 2.6 kernel.  Seeing as how 3.4.1 just got released I think it is unlikely :|

 

If you have 2 of the same machines you can try booting with rescue discs on both and copy the partition with netcat:

 

boot with IP address, something like:

dd if=/dev/sda | nc -l 12345

 

nc 1.2.3.4 -p 12345 | dd of=/dev/sda

 

The fedora core rescue cd would work well for this purpose.

 

Regards,

 

P

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bernard Li
Sent: Wed 5/11/2005 10:39 AM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

Hey Peter:

I got a SATA_SIL 3112 adapter and for whatever reason the HD connected
to it is being picked up as hda with the 2.4.25 kernel.  2.6 kernel
correctly recognizes it as sda (which I want).  I have heard that newer
versions of 2.4 kernel has this fix too, I tried building it but the
node always hang when it boots off the SIS kernel.  I guess I'll keep
trying...

Cheers,

Bernard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf
> Of Peter Mueller
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 17:53
> To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out
>
> Yes.  Specifically, here's what this kernel has:
>
> - base 2.4.25 kernel.
> - applied libata patch.
> - applied e1000 patch.
> - applied bcm5700 patch (& removed kernel-bcm patches from
> the ~si/patches directory).
> - now re-tar/bzip2 the file and put it into ~si/src.
> - put my .config in the right place
> (http://world.anarchy.com/~peter/systemimager/linux.i386.config)
> - build through SI's 'make kernel'.
>
> Regards,
>
> P
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> > Bernard Li
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:43 PM
> > To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out
> >
> >
> > Hi Peter:
> >
> > I'll try it out tonight - thanks.
> >
> > BTW, did you apply the libata patches when you build the kernel?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bernard
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of
> > > Peter Mueller
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 17:23
> > > To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have a new version of my kernel out.  This kernel has
> support for:
> > >
> > > - SATA devices.
> > > - all SCSI devices now selected (Megaraid2, IBM, Compaq, etc.).
> > > - newer e1000 driver.
> > > - newer bcm5700 (aka tg3) driver.
> > > - all network devices selected.
> > >
> > > I recently had to try installing SI to a Dell PowerEdge
> 2850 and ran
> > > into some of the same problems that Mariano Guelar ran
> into with his
> > > PE1850.
> > > Upgrading my kernel and using a base of 3.4.1 seemed to have done
> > > the trick, or at least it did for me on my PE2850 server.
> > >
> > > You can get my files here:
> > > http://world.anarchy.com/~peter/systemimager/
> > >
> > > You will most likely need to be using SI-3.4.1 to make this work,
> > > but maybe not.  Most users need simply burn the si341.iso
> file to CD
> > > and boot their clients with it.  Power users w/ PXE can simply
> > > install the kernel file to their /tftpboot directory. 
> (If you are
> > > cloning lots of machines this is almost a requirement.  Check out
> > > the Niflheim PXE-HOWTO-WITH-SYSTEMIMAGER now referenced here
> > > http://baldguysoftware.com/pub/www.systemimager.org.dev/news/2
> > > 002.09.18_NIFLH
> > > EIM_Cluster_Uses_SystemImager.pdf)
> > >
> > > Note that my kernel makes no consideration for fitting on
> a floppy;
> > > just the kernel is bigger than the floppy capacity!
> > > The goal of this kernel is to make things work, not worry about
> > > using outdated mediums :).
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Peter Mueller
> > > Operations Engineer
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