Re: oM on AMD Opterons?

With modern hadware, and since you're designing for it up-front, you 
could allow for PXE boot, USB boot or CDROM boot (though watch for
SATA CDROM drives) ... you just need to plan for your data storage 
and for your cluster management before you build.




----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tony Travis" <[email protected]>
>To: 
>Subject:  Re: [openMosix-general] oM on AMD Opterons?
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:07:25 +0100
>
> Boris Lingl wrote:
> > Hello Oliver,
> > 
> > 
> > just keep in mind - you might have newer hardware with SATA Disk drives-
> > you should therefore try a kernel version higher than 2.4.27 ...
> > 
> > Gianluca <[email protected]> posted here on th list a patched Version
> > 
> > Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> > Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:54:49 +0200
> > 
> > Perhaps this might be usefull for you.
> 
> Hello, Boris.
> 
> Yes SATA might be a problem, but the 'stable' openMosix kernel is 
> linux-2.4.26-openmosix1. I'm booting it off SCSI disks OK, but I've 
> recompiled the kernel to include the appropriate drivers built-in 
> instead of using them as loadable modules. This makes the SCSI disk 
> immediately available to the kernel for loading other modules etc.
> 
> diff config.dist config.myserver
> 17c17
> < # CONFIG_MOSIX_EXT_LOCALTIME is not set
> ---
>  > CONFIG_MOSIX_EXT_LOCALTIME=y
> 499,500c499,500
> < CONFIG_SCSI=m
> < CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
> ---
>  > CONFIG_SCSI=y
>  > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
> 509c509
> < # CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
> ---
>  > CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
> 523c523
> < CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
> ---
>  > CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
> 531c531
> < CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX=m
> ---
>  > CONFIG_SCSI_AIC79XX=y
> 539,542d538
> < CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=m
> < CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y
> < CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=32
> < CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_PROC_STATS=y
> 
> 
> 	Tony.
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