-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday May 31, 2011, Sunil Venkatesh wrote: > Hi, > > I used the steps that were mentioned under > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Adding+support+for+partimag > e+and+partimage- ng+to+xCAT+2.x+%28unofficial%29 > > to enable partimage support for xcat. I wasn't sure if I need to change > references to x86 & x86_64 (as directories) to reflect the ppc > architecture, as the web page says "The architecture for the node must > always be set to x86 for this..". I have with me the vmlinuz (kernel > image) and initrd for the capture process. The 2 nodeset commands
By this, do you mean you have vmlinuz and initrd for your power blades, not the ones linked to off of the page you listed above? If you do, that's a good start. However, you'll also need rootimg.gz. rootimg.gz is the root filesystem for the stateless image. It also contains the partimage and partimageng binaries. Assuming partimage or partimageng can actually capture partitions from power systems, you'll need to compile at least one of them to run on power. For the rootimg.gz image I provided, I compiled them statically so that I didn't have to worry about including any library dependencies in rootimg.gz. It would be a good idea to research how to use xcat's genimage command to generate stateless images to learn how to do this. If there's any part of the above that you don't fully understand, please ask me to clarify it. Until you have a stateless image that you can deploy to your power blades, there's no point in trying to debug any VCL specific items. Josh - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3mRYsACgkQV/LQcNdtPQNnVgCbB9ZFJn0+C45RC/g75RqGZY/j PZYAniP2Eam7nxgiDWUnp5sKPYPO4OMa =exBV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
