Help: different kernel images for slaves.

[Robin Laing]

Andrew,

This would work but I forgot to mention that these are diskless 
workstations.  Under bproc there is a setting in the 
/etc/beowulf/config for kernel image but I cannot find any 
documentation for assigning or allocating a different kernel for 
different machines.

I will look at kickstart though to see if it would work and install on 
each system.

> Message: 10
> From: "Cannon, Andrew" <Andrew.Cannon at nnc.co.uk>
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: RE: Help:  different kernel images for slaves.
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 08:11:14 +0100
> 
> 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?
> 
> -- Robin Laing Instrumentation Technologist Voice: 1.403.544.4762 Military Engineering Section FAX: 1.403.544.4704 Defence R&D Canada - Suffield Email: Robin.Laing at DRDC-RDDC.gc.ca PO Box 4000, Station Main WWW: http://www.suffield.drdc-rddc.gc.ca Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 8K6 Canada _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf 


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Military Engineering Section       FAX:   1.403.544.4704
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