This is the same issues we ran into that I posted a while ago but now that I've gone into the archive looking for my previous posts and to see if anyone posted some follow ups my thread seems to have been deleted/removed from the archive. We would very much like to see a nice solution for this x86_64 environment presented. Just thought I'd post this to add to a list of people in need of SI in this environment.
Brian D. Haymore University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing 155 South 1452 East RM 405 Salt Lake City, Ut 84112-0190 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Phone: (801) 585-1755 - Fax: (801) 585-5366 On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Ole, > > You can look back in the mailing list archives and find other > unsuccessful attempts at using systemimager with AMD64. > > You will run into several pitfalls: > > You can PXE boot a 32-bit kernel and ramdisk image, partition/mkfs the > disk and rsync the master image. This will fail at the postinstall stage > when the chroot into the new rsynced tree occurs for setting up the boot > block. You will not be able to chroot into a 64-bit OS from a 32-bit > kernel. Attempts were made to create a temporary 32-bit bin and lib > inside the rsynced tree just for doing the postinstall but they failed. > > I managed to compile the ramdisk image and boel binaries from source > under AMD64 (with some tweaking to the source) but I was unsuccessful in > compiling an AMD64 kernel that would successfully PXE boot. > > I ended up getting some AMD64 systems imaged but it involved a really > UGLY combination of using systemimager and a 32-bit PXE kernel for all > of the mkfs and rsync stuff and then manually booting a OS rescue cdrom > and manually doing the boot block installations and system > configurations. > > IMHO, you would be better off doing a network kickstart or AutoYast > installation. > > > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 07:27, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: > > We're testing an AMD64 Opteron (IBM eServer 325) machine > > for potential installation into our Linux cluster. We're > > testing the disk cloning using SystemImager 3.0.1 on > > Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0. > > > > We can copy a golden client image to the server, and we > > can network boot the eServer 325 using PXE. But we > > seem to have some troubles building a kernel which > > recognizes all needed devices in the eServer 325, > > since the booting invariable hangs at different places > > along the way. > > > > Has anyone succeeded in installing such any AMD64 Opteron > > machine, or specifically an IBM eServer 325, using > > SystemImager ? Any information will be appreciated. > > > > Ole Holm Nielsen > > Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Jeff Johnson > Vice President > Engineering/Technology > Western Scientific, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.wsm.com > > 9445 Farnham Street - San Diego, CA 92123 > Tel 800.443.6699 +001.858.565.6699 > Fax +001.858.565.6938 > > "Rome did not create a great Empire by holding meetings. They did it by > killing all those who opposed them." > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. > Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with > a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
