Hi, I found one workaround for handling the SATA subsystem issues on Fedora 7/8.
All we need to do is use "UYOK" instead of the SIS kernel. Since the head node's kernel is already setup to use the subsystem, when the client nodes are loaded up with the head node's kernel, it will think of the drives as the SATA subsystem (i.e., /dev/sd* ). This is not really perfect for supporting Fedora 7/8 but if we don't have time to tweak the SATA subsystem issues, I think that having this release note for Fedora 7/8 is good enough. Regards, - DongInn DongInn Kim wrote: > Hi, > > I could finally get the full pass for branch-5-1 (r6812) on Fedora 8 X86. It > seems to work just fine like all the other supported distros (Fedora 7, RHEL > 4, RHEL 5, YDL5, and so on). > > I know that we have to figure out how SIS can handle the SATA subsystem on > Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 but other than this, Fedora is pretty good to go nnow. > For more detail, > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08424.html > > As usual, here is the screenshot of the test of r6812 on Fedora 8 X86. > http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dikim/oscar_test_f8.png > > Regards, > > - DongInn > > > DongInn Kim wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have tested branch-5-1 (r6807) on Fedora 7 and everything seems to work >> fine except for that SIS can not handle the new feature of the SATA >> subsystem on Fedora 7 and 8. The detail information is available on my >> previous email. >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08424.html >> >> I post the screenshot of the test result of r6807 on Fedora 7. >> http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dikim/oscar_test_f7.png >> >> Regards, >> >> - DongInn >> >> >> Allan Menezes wrote: >>> Hi Steven, >>> I got perl-Qt from the non crispy branch of fc7 or fc6 x86_64 >>> nightly dowlad i had built earlier. It is not the the source rpm but a >>> binary rpm that you can install. It still works. >>> This url : >>> http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/filebrowser/49/trunk >>> Good Luck and Happy 2008, >>> Allan Menezes >>> Steven Blackburn wrote: >>>> Hi Allan, >>>> >>>> Can you tell me where you got perl-Qt from? I have not had any luck >>>> finding pre-built binaries for FC 6, 7 or 8. I tried building from >>>> source but ran into a problem. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Steve. >>>> >>>> */Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi DongInn, >>>> I see you are busy working hard this Christmas! Thank you very >>>> much. I did as i said to Steve Blackburn below and install fc8 >>>> x86_64 with the old rpms that i built. I also rebuilt witth >>>> ./build_all_rpms according to Eric Focht's previous excellent >>>> intructions. Also I installed python-elementtree and perl-Qt fro >>>> previous fc7 and fc-6 rpms builds of mine other than the crispy >>>> branch. It is not enough to just copy the rpmlist for fc8 I had to >>>> make a new xml file fc-8.x86_64.xml and fc-8-x86_64.rpmlist and i >>>> have uploaded with my email previously both of these files as >>>> fc8.tar attachement. >>>> Thank you again and OSCAR on to the NEW YEAR 2008! >>>> Cheers, >>>> Allan Menezes >>>> DongInn Kim wrote: >>>>> Hi, I have checked in all the opkg meta rpms for all the OSCAR >>>>> packages for Fedora 7 / 8 - X86 and almost all the OSCAR normal packages >>>>> have been rebuilt and checked in. (Note, only mpich for Fedora 8 is not >>>>> recompiled). Some fixes are added and the fedora support should be much >>>>> better than before. I hope that anyone can test with branch-5-1 on >>>>> fedora 7 / 8 and post any problems. >>>>> http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/filebrowser/49/branch Regards, - >>>>> DongInn Allan Menezes wrote: >>>>>> Hi Steven, Steven Blackburn wrote: >>>>>>> I'm having problems with the r6785 nightly (dated 23rd December) >>>>>>> and am now getting too deep / involved. I am using Fedora 8 x86_64 >>>>>>> (with no updates)... The first problem, which I managed to work >>>>>>> around was needed oscar_server to be added to /etc/hosts for the >>>>>>> sanity check. Ticket 439 covers this but the solution either isn't in >>>>>>> the branch yet or doesn't solve all the issues. >>>>>> I installed fc8 x86_64 on a cluster of five Quad cores with some >>>>>> problems but it installed. In /tftpboot/distro you need a file >>>>>> fedora-8-x86_64.url that contains the url of a remote repo of fc8 x86_64 >>>>>> distro. Choose one from fedora.org mirrors with 2gbps download like >>>>>> this one using emacs or vi: >>>>>> http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/x86_64/os/ >>>>>> >>>>>>> I had the problem of an apparent inconsitency in the names of >>>>>>> distro-related directories in tftpboot. If I follow the documentation >>>>>>> on the wiki and put the RPMs in /tftboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 I get >>>>>>> an "Unable to detect OS error on line 128 of PackageSmart.pm" error. >>>>>>> If I change line 74 packagesmart to use fedora instead of fc I go >>>>>>> round in circles. Letting it recognise fc as well as fedora gets >>>>>>> further. >>>>>> Do not tamper with PackageSmart.pm iteworks if you name your local >>>>>> distro in /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 ( a directory) and copy all >>>>>> files from your fc8 x86_64 dvd there! >>>>>>> I had to "yum install dhcp php-pear xinet xmlstarlet" to install >>>>>>> from the official online repo as none of these were on my DVD... are >>>>>>> they really missing from the distribution or is my dvd just broken? >>>>>>> >>>>>> 2)Yes i had to to the above >>>>>> icluding yum install csh and below! That seems to be broken. So >>>>>> for now yum the packages it does not find. You will also have to build >>>>>> the rpms so do : svn co >>>>>> https://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/svn/oscar/branches/crispy_5.1 >>>>>> crispy51 say in /opt then go to /opt/crispy51/scripts and do >>>>>> ./build_all_rpms and copy all rpms from packages directory to >>>>>> /tftpboot/oscar/fc-8-x86_64 Also to get started you need lxml and >>>>>> cheetah . You can download and istall them by : python setup.py build; >>>>>> python setup.py install. yOu will first of all need opkgc! Here it is >>>>>> : svn co >>>>>> https://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/svn/oscar/pkgsrc/opkgc/trunk/ >>>>>> opkgc .cd opkgc and ./configure;make; make install! Step 2 will build >>>>>> all the rpms for you which you copy to >>>>>> /tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms and /tftpboot/oscar/fc-8-x86_64 >>>>>> Alternately you can download the common repo and fc-8-x96_64 repo rpms >>>>>> which i built and uploaded som time ago before fc8 was released! from >>>>>> the crispy branck and ADD the SIS dir of built common-rpms to it to get >>>>>> going! Also when you are creating the client image add >>>>>> ;/tftpboot/oscar/fc-8-x86_64 to the gui first box. Happy Holidays, >>>>>> Allan Menezes >>>>>>> When I run the install again, there seem to be yet more packages >>>>>>> missing: "yum install perl-XML-Simple perl-HTML-Tree perl-Tk perl-Qt" >>>>>>> but perl-Qt fails to install - does this need building for Fedora 8? >>>>>>> At this point I decided I might have gone too far down this rabbit >>>>>>> hole already and thought it best to get some feedback. Please let me >>>>>>> know if I need to go back a few steps, or what the next step might be. >>>>>>> Seasons Greetings, Steve. PS: I tried renaming the distro >>>>>>> directory to fc-8-x86_64 but >>>>>>> then tftpboot-check.pl fails "ERROR: Impossible to find a local >>>>>>> or online repository in /tftpboot for the distro fedora-8-x86_64" so I >>>>>>> changed line 19 of tftpboot-check.pl to use the compat_distro when >>>>>>> determining the distro_id. This gets me further but wizard_prep keeps >>>>>>> recreating the /tftboot/distro/fedora-8-x86_64 directory (which >>>>>>> tftfboot-check then complains is empty the second time around!) >>>>>>> */Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: Hi Steve: On >>>>>>> 12/17/07, Steven Blackburn wrote: > I have tried a nightly from >>>>>>> a week or so ago on FC8 x86_64 but ran into some > problems >>>>>>> which were reported earlier on the list... like the fedora repo >>>>>>> not > being found and missing an example fc8 rpm list. Also, I had >>>>>>> problems rpm list aren't that big of a deal -- I usually >>>>>>> just copy the previous version's. > updating the yume >>>>>>> prereqs file to add fedora 8 to the 5|6|7 pattern. I > >>>>>>> stopped trying when the install complained about not being able to >>>>>>> install > python-elementtree (mentioned in the yume prereq file, >>>>>>> IIRC). > > If Bernard can check in the files, and if they >>>>>>> make it to a nightly, I can > check out the current state of >>>>>>> the 5-1 branch on FC8 x86_64. I try not to check in RPMs which >>>>>>> are already included in the distro -- however, for some reason I >>>>>>> think Fedora 8 stopped shipping python-elementtree. It >>>>>>> would be great if you can help us verify support -- however, my >>>>>>> work with f8-i386 would most definitely help with your endeavor on >>>>>>> x86_64, but it definitely does not mean support as you'll still need >>>>>>> to rebuild all the RPMs. Ask us questions if you run into >>>>>>> issues, we'll help you out. I'll try to check in my changes >>>>>>> tonight. 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