Bugs item #1070584, was opened at 2004-11-21 12:14 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100259&aid=1070584&group_id=259
Category: Autoinstall Kernel Group: v3.2.0 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: dann frazier (dannf) Summary: libata support for SATA drives (IBM x306) Initial Comment: I'm building a cluster of 24 1-U IBM x306 PC's (http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/xseries/x306.html). These systems use SATA drives, which means the default systemimager autoinstall kernel won't see the drives. I was able to get systemimager to work with these systems (with some caveats listed below) by applying Jeff Garzik's libata patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/old/2.4.25-libata16.patch.bz2 I uncompressed and placed this in the patches directory with the name "linux.i386.93libata.patch". I then made the following edits to linux.i386.config: - change CONFIG_SCSI to "y" from "m" - change CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD to "y" from "m" - add "CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y" - add "CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y" This will compile in support for SCSI and SATA drives (possibly making the kernel too big for a floppy). [The IBM x306 only needs the Intel SCSI_ATA_PIIX driver -- I should probably have explicitly set the other libata drivers in this patch to "n" to avoid questions during "make binaries".] I should probably have made these a module, but this worked for me (at least for CD autoinstalls). There were two other caveats: - Newer kernels (esp 2.4.28) show these SATA drives as scsi devices (/dev/sda) rather than /dev/hd* devices. The 2.4.25 kernel with this patch, however, shows the first SATA drive as /dev/hdc. Since my golden client is using 2.4.28, I had to edit the autoinstall script (substituting "sda" for "hdc"). - For some reason, systemimager created an autoinstall script that tried to partition /dev/hda (which is the cdrom drive in this system). I had to remove the partitioning stuff ofr /dev/hda and manually put in the parted commands for /dev/sda. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100259&aid=1070584&group_id=259 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
