Hi Allan:

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On 2/10/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


   I am using the command ./install_cluster eth1 for generation of the
oscar wizard and install interface. Further more I have two gigabit
switches per eth interface and all nodes have two gigabit eth interfaces.

A little bit of clarification.  I understand that your headnode + all
clients have at least 2 networks cards and you want them all connected
via two switches.


YES, That is right. ONly two compute nodes of the 14 have P5B-VM DO 
motherboards, the rest
have asrock 775i65G motherboards with built on 10/100 eth that i disable in BIOS. I tried one of them as a client node and it booted and installed okay! These asrock motheboards have two nics one skge or r8169 and the other intel e1000
on two pci slots plugged in.
The P5B-Vm DO mobo are new mobos from asus and have support in fc6 which is why 
i am anxious to use fc6.
These asus mobos have built in 965 chipset with intel graphics controller and 6 
channel sata-II raid controller. In the master node with
one of these asus boards i have two 250gig sata-2 drives with raid 0 for 500gig 
total capacity.
Both these mobos (asus p5b-vm do) have built on pci-express gigabit ethernet 
card and one e1000 pci32 pro100/gt intel card
that i plugged in.
I have two subnets IP's 192.168.3.x and 192.168.1.x and each subnet is 
connected to a netgear gigabit 24 port high speed switch for 14 nodes.
eth1 is the pci32 addon intel card on the 192.168.1.x subnet.
The prblem is that these asus mobos being new supported by the 2.6.18 kernel 
and onwards i may have to pass command line options on the
boot: prompt such as:
boot: kernel all-generic-ide pci=nommconf root=/dev/sda1 irqpoll acpi=off
If i do pass boot prompts as above i get a kernel panic before the dhcp etc
But if i do not pass a boot prompt as above it goes on nicely till it fails on 
the dhcpdiscover though the mac address of the eth interface
is set up right in Setup Networking of the boot client and it seems to get its 
ip from pxe boot and the main server 192.168.1.1
I do not understand what's wrong! It's only the new mobos with dual intel nics.


OSCAR can only help you set up with ONE interface, configuring and
setting up the other interface will be up to you to set up.  Although,
I guess with some modifications to our code, it may be possible to
help you set this up automatically.



I diabled in bios the motherboard nic and i still get the same problem even 
disconnected the cable from the mobo!

The Fc6 i386 installed on the P5B-VM DO mobo has two intel interfaces
with eth1 as ip 192.168.1.1 and a pci nic installed on a pci slot. eth0
is an onboard pci express nic eth interface with ip 192.168.3.1.
I had found the cables switched on the two switches( individual switches
per interface) but I corrected that and rebooted both machines and have
the same problem.

Since you ran ./install_cluster eth1, eth1 will be the only interface
which OSCAR cares about.  So you need to plug the first interface
(eth0) on your P5B-VM DO computer onto the switch that your headnode's
eth1 is plugged into, and ensure that the MAC address of your client
computer's eth0 is recorded in OSCAR's "Setup Networking" widget.  I
don't see why dhcp wouldn't work in this case.

BTW, if you have access to an IRC client, perhaps this discussion is
better done interactively.  You can find me at #oscar-cluster on
irc.freenode.net.

Cheers,

Bernard

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