Bugs item #701091, was opened at 2003-03-10 14:22 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by erikj1 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100259&aid=701091&group_id=259
Category: None Group: v3.0.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Erik Jacobson (erikj1) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Supporting SGI Altix Initial Comment: If you guys are interested in supporting Altix, this is a place holder for some suggestions. I'm really not a developer but a sysadmin. However, if necessary, I can pull in a developer. So if the interest is there, what do you need from me? Here are a couple points to start with. kernel: An Altix system needs an Altix kernel. It will not boot with a regular ia64 kernel. I used a kernel we ship with ProPack 2.1.1. What is the best way to deal with this? I could get kernel source or supply a binary or whatever. It's easier for me to supply a binary but we do include a kernel source package with ProPack so the kernel can be re-built. cramfs: I could not get cramfs to work. I built an Altix kernel with cramfs support built inside. I would always get invalid magic errors and just simply could not work with it. I built my own initrd image using an ext2 based initrd instead. It has the same contents as your cramfs initrd image. That's all I have for now. Let me know how to proceed if you're interested. Let me know if I need to try to find a developer to work with. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Erik Jacobson (erikj1) Date: 2003-09-13 10:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=730453 I started looking at this again. I have my own ia64boot RPM for altix that seems to be mostly working. The cramfs issue was tricky at first as I was trying to use 2.4.21 but it didn't work with your cramfs adjustments. So I went to an older 2.4.20 based tree with patches that make it work for Altix. I stripped out some of the patches from the 'patches' directory in the source tarball as they were applied by our tree. I kept the cramfs related stuff and now have a modified systemimager-ia64boot-3.0.1sgi rpm that I'm playing with. I changed the SPEC file to add sgi to the end so I don't personally get confused between versions. I guess the right thing would be to change the name string a bit so there can be more than one ia64 architecture that don't conflict. I'll read up on the docs and see if there is an easy way to do that later. Down the road, Altix will boot natively with standard kernel.org kernels but we're not quite there yet. I guess I'm not sure what this means in the end. Let me know if you have suggestions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: dann frazier (dannf) Date: 2003-03-11 22:45 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=146718 i know you've gotten passed it, but for the cramfs issue, there is a cramfs initrd patch in cvs that you need for this to work. there is a feature request for creating a boot package from a working set of kernel and modules, which would help you here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100259&aid=701091&group_id=259 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
