Re: [SSI-users] LinuxSSI x86_64 bit

[Cumberland, L. <lon...@ni...>]

Hello Scott,

In my last attempt (a few moments ago) I simply added the e1000 to the modules file but forgot to run mkinitrd.

Once rebooted, the system does not boot up and falls out with an error message. Looks like I will have to restart the whole process again and see.

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
                Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8462
 
EMAIL: lon...@ni...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Walters [mailto:sc...@sl...] 
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 1:47 PM
To: Cumberland, Lonnie
Cc: Roger Tsang; ssi...@li...
Subject: Re: [SSI-users] LinuxSSI x86_64 bit

On 6/25/10, Cumberland, Lonnie <lon...@ni...> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> In step 10 of the
>
> http://openssi.org/cgi-bin/view?page=openssi.html
>
> It says to:
>
> "Add the module for your cluster-interconnect nic to /etc/mkinitrd/modules
> (You can find out what it is by doing:
> ls -ld  /sys/class/net/ethX/device/driver/module
> where "ethX" is the nic you want to use). "
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I found out that the module is "e1000"

Add the line to /etc/mkinitrd/modules.

Mine has these in it:

3c59x
8139too
3c509

I also kept the comment at the top reminding me to run mkinitrd after
changing the file.  Machines on the cluster net-boot and mount the
cluster filesystem as their root filesystem, and this file tells the
initnode which network modules it needs to include in for the
netbooting hosts so that they can get the network up and mount the
cluster filesystem.  The modules listed in there get built into the
/boot/initrd-* (for your kernel version) file.  After editing that
file and doing mkinitrd, I also like to do ssi-ksync to make sure all
of the netbooting apparatus is updated and in order.

Thanks,
-scott