Re: openMosix 2.4.34

Christopher Kies wrote:
> Just to let you know, the kernel didn't work.  Most likely though because
> I'm dependent on SATA (I moved over about 2 years ago).  Without it I'd
> be stuck using just a Live CD linux like ClusterKnoppix.  2.4.31-migshm
> is the next best possible bet.  Which I found the patchsets here
> 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~voxus/om/
> 
> Let me know if you can get a working kernel, so far I've been
> unsuccessful.

Hello, Chris.

I started work on linux-2.4.34-om1 because I've bought two new servers 
with SATA disks on nVidia controllers: The ClusterKnoppix 2.4.27 kernel 
does support these controllers, but seems to use them in 'compatibility' 
mode. You can install the ClusterKnoppix kernel into an existing hard 
disk installation of Ubuntu/Debian. However, I couldn't get it to work 
reliably after recompiling it without MFS and I wasn't happy about the 
SATA support so I checked out the 2.4.34 Linux kernel sources from 
kernel.org. This kernel supports the nVidia SATA controllers properly.

I've seen the Gentoo stuff but, to be honest, I don't think it helps if 
you want to run openMosix under Ubuntu/Debian. Fine if you want to run 
Gentoo, but our Beowulf cluster runs the linux-2.4.26-om1 kernel under 
'biobuntu' (NEBC Bio-Linux4 + Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS) and I rely on APT...

	Tony.
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