Can you update CHANGE.LOG. Thanks for the update!
Sean Dague wrote: >I've been hacking in CVS to try to enable SystemImager to work on IBM's JS20 >Blades and Power5, both are ppc64 arch. As of Friday I got a successful >redeployment of a SLES9 image off a JS20, and back to the same JS20. I'm >now pushing all those changes back into CVS, so anyone else looking to test >these things should just run with it. The substantial changes I made were: > > * move ppc64 kernel to vanilla 2.6.11 (man this is easier now that Linus > runs a ppc64 on his desktop ;) ) > * a brand new kernel config. This is roughly based of the config being > worked on for ppc64 gentoo livecd support, though I made a couple of > changes which I can't remember the details of now > * add *back* sfdisk, openfirmware *really* needs a type 41 partition, and > parted doesn't do that. > * update rsync & reiserfs. The old reiserfs couldn't figure out default fs > on 2.6 kernels, which was causing things to go interactive. Very bad in > this environment. The rsync update is trying to get around some odd > network corruption I saw in 2.5.7. I'm actually not sure that this is > fixed until 2.6.4, but 2.6.3 seems better. > >In addition there are a few changes I made which are more generic, and >helped with ppc64, but are also useful elsewhere. > > * turned on devfs support in busybox - this appears to have been breaking > other users of CVS HEAD as well as me, so if you tried and fail with CVS > recently, try again. > * turned on klogd and logger in busybox for.... > * added syslog support to BOEL > >This last one is pretty cool. All echo statements in both autoinstall >scripts and BOEL that were informational only have been replaced to a call >to logmsg instead, which is an internal shell function that will: > > 1. echo back out > 2. append to /tmp/si.log - for env where consoles don't have scrollback > 3. push via syslog if syslogd is running > >I've been running this for about 2 weeks on the ppc64 porting as the JS20 >console is Serial Over Lan, and seeing the messages in syslog on my image >server was just far more convenient. > >Anyway, this is all out in CVS HEAD. I'm sure I've forgotten something, so >if you see an issue, please let me know. Any ppc64 testers are *very >encouraged* to let me know how things work for them. I'm not sure that this >will work on Apple computers running Linux, as I don't have any to test on, >but it shouldn't be all that hard to fix that part. > > -Sean > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 10F8EE52 ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list Sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
