Hey Leandro:

Were you having problems with CVS earlier because of the SF.net outage
or do you not have access to CVS at all?

I could check out the latest code, tar it up and put it in a webpage
where you can d/l it.

Cheers,

Bernard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> Of Leandro Tavares Carneiro
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:34
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] What I did was ugly, but it is working
> 
> My system are Red Hat. I like to play with the source, but i 
> can test both.
> 
> Leandro Tavares Carneiro
> Petrobras TI/TI-E&P/STEP Suporte Tecnico de E&P
> Av Chile, 65 sala 1501 EDISE - Rio de Janeiro / RJ
> Tel: (0xx21) 3224-1427
> 
> 
> Bernard Li wrote:
> > Are you on Debian or Red Hat system?  We might be able to 
> build you some
> > binaries so you can test - or we can just put the sources 
> online for you
> > to play with.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Bernard 
> > 
> > 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> >>Of Leandro Tavares Carneiro
> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:06
> >>To: [email protected]
> >>Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] What I did was ugly, but it is working
> >>
> >>I have some problems to access the CVS from here. There are 
> >>any snapshot 
> >>available? I can do the tests, and see if it running or not.
> >>
> >>Most of the changes i have made in 3.5.1 was to support AMD64 
> >>architecture. This 
> >>version i was changed is the *only one* who compiles and 
> >>works fine on AMD64.
> >>
> >>I will look for the snapshots of the CVS to start work with it.
> >>
> >>Any news, i will post here.
> >>
> >>Leandro Tavares Carneiro
> >>Petrobras TI/TI-E&P/STEP Suporte Tecnico de E&P
> >>Av Chile, 65 sala 1501 EDISE - Rio de Janeiro / RJ
> >>Tel: (0xx21) 3224-1427
> >>
> >>
> >>Bernard Li wrote:
> >>
> >>>Have looked at the code in CVS?  A lot has changed since 3.5.1 was
> >>>released.
> >>>
> >>>I strongly urge you to try it out and if it still has 
> issues.  If it
> >>>does, please file a bug and/or email the developers at 
> >>
> >>sisuite-devel.
> >>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Bernard 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >>>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf 
> >>>>Of Leandro Tavares Carneiro
> >>>>Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:11
> >>>>To: [email protected]
> >>>>Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] What I did was ugly, but it 
> is working
> >>>>
> >>>>I don't think what you have done is ugly, if it is working ;-)
> >>>>
> >>>>I have done a huge hack on sistemimager to make it compile 
> >>>>and work clean on 
> >>>>AMD64. There are some mistakes on the makefiles and i have 
> >>>>modified it to work.
> >>>>Now, i have an source RPM wich works on all platforms i have.
> >>>>
> >>>>If theres some interest, i can provide this package. It is 
> >>>>based on 3.5.1.
> >>>>
> >>>>What concerns me more is some problems introduced on the 
> >>>>latest versions of SI, 
> >>>>like the scripts of the images aren't generated right. Every 
> >>>>time i have to edit 
> >>>>the scripts to fix things like raid partitions.
> >>>>
> >>>>Other thing is not working is the configuration of grub.
> >>>>
> >>>>Leandro Tavares Carneiro
> >>>>Petrobras TI/TI-E&P/STEP Suporte Tecnico de E&P
> >>>>Av Chile, 65 sala 1501 EDISE - Rio de Janeiro / RJ
> >>>>Tel: (0xx21) 3224-1427
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Greg Hartzog wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>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.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>============================================
> >>>>>Greg Hartzog
> >>>>>Storage Engineer
> >>>>>
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