You might try rebuilding the packages, but I don't know that much about YDL or IBMS.
The disk partition files are in /opt/oscar/oscarsamples I think. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Grigory Shamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the advice. I've found it, along with a description on PS3 > installation. > However, I run into some problems I'd like to ask here. > > 1) OSCAR 5.1b1 for YDL 5.0 did install, the install_cluster script did > run up to step 4. (There were peroblems with ganglia package at step3 so > I just excluded it for now). But building the image failed with the > following messages: > =================== > Writing package group file for client installation: > /opt/oscar/tmp/Default.pgroup > --> Identified distro of clients: ydl 5 > --> Distro repo: file:/tftpboot/distro/yellowdog-5-ppc64 > --> OSCAR repo: > file:/tftpboot/oscar/ydl-5-ppc64,file:/tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms > --> Using binary list: /opt/oscar/oscarsamples/ydl-5-ppc64.rpmlist > 0: yellowdog-5-ppc > 1: yellowdog-5-ppc64 > Selection: yellowdog-5-ppc64 > the new package list is: > > file:/tftpboot/distro/yellowdog-5-ppc64,file:/tftpboot/oscar/ydl-5-ppc64,file:/tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms > Executing command: mksiimage -A --name oscarimage --location > > "file:/tftpboot/distro/yellowdog-5-ppc64,file:/tftpboot/oscar/ydl-5-ppc64,file:/tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms" > --filename /opt/oscar/oscarsamples/ydl-5-ppc64.rpmlist --arch ppc64 > --path /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage --filename > /opt/oscar/tmp/Default.pgroup > PackMan::RPM=HASH(0x107999c4) does not understand > PackMan::RPM::check_installed > Image build finished. > Image oscarimage does not exist > at /usr/bin/mksidisk line 88 > Couldn't run command mksidisk -A --name oscarimage --file > /opt/oscar/oscarsamples/ibm.disk at > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/ppc-linux-thread-multi/Tk.pm line 247 > Requested images not found. > at /usr/bin/mksiimage line 302 > =================== > Could you help me to workaround it somehow? > > 2) IBM pSeries, as far as I understand, requires somewhat special disk > layout -- that is, first 8Mb partition has to be PPC PReP (bootable), > then goes /boot up to 100Mb, then swap and root as usual. How does one, > if it is possible at all, speify this PPC PReP thing with OSCAR disk > layout files? > > -- > WBR, Grigory Shamov > > > Michael Edwards ?????: > > > Do a search on the devel list for the "crunchy" branch installation > > instructions. > > > > One of these days someone will post them somewhere more sensible. > > > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Grigory Shamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dear All, > >> > >> Could someone advice me, whether it is possible to use OSCAR to setup an > >> IBM pSeries cluster? I've found that there is a OSCAR support for > >> YellowDOg distro for the 5.1 beta. But there is no oscar-base download > >> anymore for 5.1. Do i need the svn trunk to install it? Or in 5.1 just > >> installing common and distro-specific rpms is enough? > >> > >> Any suggestions/information/shared experiences on OSCAR on PowerPC would > >> be appreciated! > >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
