Hi Bill:
Fedora Core 4 is 2.6 kernel based, and SystemImager 3.2.0 is 2.4 kernel based, therefore it is not advised to use this combination because you will likely have module naming discrepancy issues between the kernel versions.
I suspect the stock kernel which comes with SystemImager 3.7.4 (due out soon...) will have no problems supporting your hardware, I have been testing it with different hardware and it works pretty well.
If you are using SystemImager to manage clusters, I would like to point you at the OSCAR project, which includes SystemImager automatically installed and configured:
http://oscar.openclustergroup.org
Cheers,
Bernard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bill McKie
Sent: Tue 15/08/2006 23:52
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Sisuite-users] SuperMicro PDSMi i82573 support in si kernel
Hi
We've been happily & gratefully using systemimager (v3.2.0-4) for some time now
to manage system installs & updates for several linux clusters.
We're now adding new cluster boxes that are built using the SuperMicro PDSMi
motherboard, which includes 2 Intel 82573 gigabit ethernet interfaces, an
IDE/ATA hard disk, and Pentium-4 CPU.
We prepared for autoinstalling with systemimager on these boxes in our usual way:
o Custom configured a FC4 golden client on one of these PDSMi boxes.
o Installed our usual set of client side sis RPMs on the golden client:
rpm -Uvh \
perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm \
systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm \
systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm \
systemimager-client-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
o Our systemimager image server (running FC4) has the following RPMs installed:
perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1.noarch.rpm
perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm
systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
systemimager-server-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm
o Successfully tested golden client network communications through its
82573 interfaces with the image server, including dhcp IP assignment.
o Successfully ran the usual prepareclient on the golden client
o Successfully pulled the golden client's image to the image server
using getimage.
o Ensured that PXE network booting was set up on the image server
under /tftpboot. [The imager server is also the dhcp server.]
o Set up dhcp server entries for fixed-address IP assignment and PXE
network autoinstalling for a fresh PDSMi box that does not yet have
an OS installed.
o Set up network booting through one of the 82573 interfaces in the
BIOS of the fresh PDSMi box.
o Ensured that the systemimager rsyncd server is running on the
image server.
o Booted the fresh PDSMi box.
o Watched the dhcp server successfully assign the expected IP to the
fresh PDSMi box. [I.e. PXE booting within the 82573 ethernet
interface successfully communicates with the dhcp server.]
o Watched pxelinux successfully boot across the network. [I.e.
the dhcp server is successfully handing off network booting
to tftpd.]
o Watched the systemimager kernel download and then take control of
the client PDSMi box, successfully detecting the IDE/ATA disk. But
it then stalled when it tried to configure the ethernet interface.
Manually trying a few ifconfig commands from the breakout shell
indicated that no eth0 or eth1 devices were known to the systemimager
kernel.
o Replaced the standard systemimager kernel under /tftpboot with
Peter Mueller's kernel, repeated the client autoinstall boot,
and again the ethernet interface was not detected.
So it appears that I need a systemimager kernel that supports the
intel 82573 ethernet interface and is compatible with systemimager
v3.2.0-4. Does such a kernel exist, and if yes, where can I obtain
it?
[I've been reading about UYOK under newer systemimager version(s),
but it is not yet clear to me whether or not this is available now
in a stable version of systemimager. And since everything except the
kernel is working fine with our current systemimager 3.2.0-4 setup,
it would be desirable to not change anything except the autoinstall
kernel if that is possible.]
Following is the output from the lspci command for the PDSMi box,
showing the presence of the intel 82573 ethernet interfaces:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7230 Memory Controller Hub (rev 81)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7230 PCI Express Root Port (rev 81)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev 09)
02:00.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 6700/6702PXH I/OxAPIC Interrupt Controller A (rev 09)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
Thanks,
Bill McKie
NASA Ames Research Center
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