I echo Brian's concern. The lack of that feature has caused LOTS of pain on systems where you have to patch things to get the head node working. Since most of the clusters we are seeing are homogenous I would suggest using the installed kernel as the default behavior but allow the user to select another kernel if necessary.
Tom Lehmann Enterprise Products Marketing (503)712-9014 (Desk Oregon) (702)360-9908 (Desk Las Vegas) (503)720-2778 (Cell) -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Enos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:32 AM To: Brian Elliott Finley; Oscar Devel List Cc: SISuite Devel Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] SIS Update: SystemImager 3.1.3 RPMs committed Bef, Dannf- Any progress on the SI feature to build it's network boot image from the host system? (i.e. use same kernel, don't depend on cramfs, etc, etc) FR: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=682696&group_id=259&ati d=350259 The reason I'm asking is because I'm experiencing another show stopping problem caused by the lack of that feature. Originally, our problems were mainly issues with supporting new hardware. Those are equally serious, but band-aid'ed by a new kernel for now. The new problem is that the SIS netboot kernel detects eth0 and eth1 on a particular machine in a certain order. The kernel I am deploying in the image detects them in the opposite order, and REQUIRES them to be that way. So nothing comes up from disk with a network. Disabling one adapter would fix my problem... but this hardware (rx2600's) doesn't allow that. That would be a hack, even if it were possible. The kernel I'm using is a pretty standard 2.4.20 kernel... which will eventually be used in the Gelato distribution. I cannot proceed as is. My guess is that if you make a 2.4.20 netboot kernel, it may help me in this instance, but this is only going to happen again, and again, and again. We *really* need a process that doesn't depend on us contacting the SIS team for another band-aid. That way, at 3AM in the morning, I can also still finish the job on my own instead of aborting. ;-) thx- Jeremy At 10:03 AM 7/10/2003 -0500, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: >SIS Update: SystemImager 3.1.3 RPMs committed > > >-- >--------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Elliott Finley Phone: 630.803.8183 > GPG: 3FF8 D096 0E0C D3F3 29B7 6518 D20B 1931 10F8 EE52 >--------------------------------------------------------- > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft >Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. >Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. >www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps >_______________________________________________ >Oscar-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
