Hello,
I would like to know how difficult it would be to modify kickstart such
that it would work over Infiniband. I've asked the Red Hat anaconda
developers about this and, as you can see in the attached email, they
believe IB only accepts netlink and no ioctls for network setup. Is
this true?
I am a system admin testing OpenIB on RHEL 4 Update 3 beta which was
released a few days ago. I was able to kickstart over my standard
Ethernet and all the IB drivers are loaded upon boot.
How difficult would it be to get Anaconda to be able to use an IB link
for kickstart such that a host's only connection to the outside world
was IB?
Thanks!
/Brian/
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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 11:39 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 09:14 -0700, Maestas, Christopher Daniel wrote:
> > I think as long as your ib card will pxe boot, things may work normally.
> > If we ensure the vmlinuz + initrd.img and the has the ib drivers in it,
> > we should be good to go. Just need to make sure the installed kernel
> > has the openib drivers as well.
> Can you verify if RHEL 4 U3 pxeboot/initrd will have the openIB drivers
> integrated?
There are no infiniband drivers included in the initrd because the
understanding I have is that you actually _cannot_ use the standard
ioctl methods of network setup and instead have to use some of the newer
netlink functionality.
Jeremy
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