Re: LinuxSSI x86_64 bit

Hi Lonnie,

Ahh, I forgot that that does take arguments or I would have gave examples.

mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.14-ssi-686-smp 2.6.14-ssi-686-smp

That's a Linux-ism.  The kernel, care of make menuconfig or otherwise,
has an identifier that includes the version, target CPU, 'smp' or
similar things, and so on.  The kernel looks for its modules inside
the initrd image (init ramdisk image, I think that means) and in
/lib/modules in a directory named after this identifier.  This keeps
kernels from trying to load modules from other kernel versions that
just aren't compat.  Since you may be using one kernel to generate an
initrd for a different kernel, it requires you to specify.  In the
case of the 1st argument, that has to match what's specified for the
initrd in the bootloader, since the name of the initrd file is
specified to the kernel at boot time.

And yeah, this is all a bit silly, normally.  It's essential for
netbooting as in the case of OpenSSI, but on systems such as plain old
Fedora, it's possible to do away with the initrd entirely in most
cases.  People love to throw additional stages at the Linux
bootloading process.

Anyway, I have that command with arguments in a little .sh script in
root's home directory with 'ssi-ksync' immediately following it.

Cheers,
-scott

On 6/28/10, Cumberland, Lonnie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> Well, another attempt on getting the OpenSSI installed on my AMD 64-bit main
> node and have been following the
>
> http://openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=openssi.html
>
> exactly as it specifies, but cannot seem to get past step number 18 where I
> reboot the machine.
>
> Not sure what is going on with the system, but think that it has to do with
> the step 10 and mkinitrd where I add in my network card information "e1000"
> although I am not sure.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated since I am at a loss at this point.
>
> Thanks and have a great day,
> Lonnie Cumberland, Prof.
> Physicist
>
> National Institute of Standards and Technology
> Ionizing Radiation Division (846)
> Radiation Physics Group (245), Room C106
> ADDRESS:
>                  100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8462
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>
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>
>
>

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