have either of you looked at using xcat instead of SIS? It's a more
complete solution, not just OS rollouts. Your time spent managing the
h/w will drop significantly.
I have a rack of HS20's in 5 chassis and am finding xcat just about
irreplacable.
John Burk
Sr. Technical Director
Mainframe Entertainment
604.628.1019
Brodie, Kent wrote:
I have a rack of JS20’s…. I may want to play with a variant of this in
the future J
Thanks for keeping us up to date on your excellent work; sadly I spent
far too much time managing my technology, and have zero time for
learning to code this stuff J
-----Original Message-----
*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Greg
Hartzog
*Sent:* Friday, June 03, 2005 8:27 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* [Sisuite-users] What I did was ugly, but it is working
Hello there everyone. I got everything working, but what I did was an
ugly hack. Let me give some background about what I trying to
accomplish and how I made it work. Then I would love some suggestions
on a more elegant way of doing this.
I am setting up an IBM BladeCenter. It has 6 HS20 blades, each SAN
booting from an IBM DS4000 disk array. The blades are all running RHEL
3 Update 5.
Getting the first blade loaded by hand and making a golden client from
it was pretty simple. Get the other blades to network boot via BOEL
was more challenging.
I need to get 3 things added in to BOEL. The Qlogic HBA driver. The
multipath driver for IBM DS4000, referred to as RDAC. And the newest
Broadcom NIC driver. Each of these comes as a separate tarball to
compile a binary module. None of them come as kernel patches.
What I ended up doing is as follows.
I compiled all the 3 tarballs and put all the new kernel module files
into INITRD_SOURCE/MY_MODULES.
I edited INITRD_SOURCE/SKEL/ETC/INIT.D/FUNCTIONS to make INSMOD calls
in the section hardware autodetect section. I inserted the Qlogic
modules, the RDAC modules, and various SCSI modules.
I editing INITRD_SOURCE/MY_MODULES/INSMOD_COMMANDS to insert the
Broadcomm NIC module.
I edited PATCHES/LINUX.I386.CONFIG to compile the SCSI SG driver as a
module, which is required by RDAC and to compile TG3 as a module
rather then in the kernel directly.
After I did all that, I made and installed the binaries, and it all
works like a champ.
But I think that hardcoding the various modules is a very crude of way
doing this.
I would love to talk with someone about what different ways this might
be done. Then I can see about modifying what ever files need changing
to implement the more general solution.
Thanks folks, and I look forward to working with everyone to find and
implement the elegant version of my ugly hack.
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Greg Hartzog
Storage Engineer
(678) 969-1490 (DID)
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Optimus Solutions
22 Technology Parkway
Norcross, Georgia 30092
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