From: <ha...@no...> - 2002-03-24 11:58:37
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I installed Clustermatic according to included README (on top of fresh RH7.2). Most things worked great, I have just these little notes: 1) After "rpm -Uvh *" previous kernel modules are gone. This is a problem if you still need them to make system bootable with new kernel. I used floppy boot (did not want to touch some things on hd during these experiments) and was unable to create new boot floppy without old fat.o msdos.o vfat.o and loop.o. If you want to avoid this trap, copy /lib/modules somewhere before kernel upgrade. (Just "cat kernel>/dev/fd0; rdev ..." will not help if your root partition is RH72 default ext3.) 2) I was rather disappointed that my old Scyld phase1 images on nodes did not work with Clustermatic. It is likely that I should blame the old system and not the new one, but anyway - I somehow believed that once the node ever beoboots, I never ever have to touch phase1 images again (unless I change the hardware). If it RARPs and starts once, it should RARP and start with future master node setups as well. I was wrong. My old Scyld beoboot 1.1.16 with 3c905B and driver v0.99Rb 8/8/2000 just RARPs forever with Clustermatic master (while it works with old Scyld master). OK, I will just upgrade phase1 images on all local harddisks... :-( My question is: How long should I expect my phase1 images to stay? How long will be my "forever" this time? Anyway, many thanks for Clustermatic which is great. Best Regards Vaclav Hanzl |