Help: different kernel images for slaves.

[Cannon, Andrew]

This might not help, but from what I've been told (I'm due to try it in our
16 node cluster soon) you can use the Kickstart program to distribute
different versions of most of the software in RH across the network. I'm
sure you should be able to do the same with the kernel too (I hope so...)

Hope this helps a bit.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Laing [mailto:Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:26 PM
To: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Help: different kernel images for slaves.


Hello,

I am involved with adding some SMP machines to our small cluster and I 
am trying to find out how I tell the new machines to run the SMP 
kernel instead of the default in the /var/beowulf/config file.

We are running RH 9 and BPpoc.

Our present system is working with single processor boot image and the 
SMP machines will boot with only one processor working.  I have 
compiled a SMP kernel to test but I cannot just change the boot kernel 
for all the other machines.

Presently in /var/beowulf are:
	boot.img	nodeboot.img	nodeinfo

I want to add boot_smp.img

I have not seen any documentation on configuring /etc/beowulf/config 
to work with more than one boot image.

Is it possible to define which nodes boot with which kernel?

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