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Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Booting Opteron Servers
From: "Bryan Washer" <bwasher () vitesse ! com>
Date: 2005-05-17 14:05:36
Message-ID: C8D645331809224C80176F74B91152A201FCC3 () mx-txa ! vitesse ! com
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I am currently imaging both IBM and Sun Opterons from SI. What kind of
Opteron are you working with..I may be able to send you my boot
Kernel....but you would have to setup PXE booting since it will not fit
on a floppy... ~3MB in size..
Bryan
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From: sisuite-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:sisuite-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
robert.f.crocker@power.alstom.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:31 AM
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Sisuite-users] Booting Opteron Servers
So I've been playing with both the 3.5 and 3.4 versions of SystemImager
and can successfully pull images from Opteron boxes but I've been having
no luck whatsoever making a boot CD for the systems. The
si_mkautoinstallcd doesn't know anything about x86_64 architecture. I
hacked around on that and managed to create a boot disk but then that
failed horribly (would boot with a bunch of blank spaces and then a
character and then nothing).
I then used the isolinux files from the SuSE 9.2 DVD and traced through
what SI was trying to do to create a boot disk that seems to get farther
but crashes looking for some .so files. First time it was libc.so.6 so
I untarred the boel_binaries file and added that into the disk image.
Now it's failing looking for librt.so.1 which I'm not sure is an actual
improvement.
So has anyone had any success booting an Opteron box for imaging?
(Important details - Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI, Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet,
Tyan Thunder K8W motherboards).
Thanks in advance,
Rob Crocker
ALSTOM Power
Power Plant Labs
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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from SI. What kind of Opteron are you working with..I may be able to send \
you my boot Kernel….but you would have to setup PXE booting since it will not
fit on a floppy… ~3MB in size..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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sisuite-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:sisuite-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>robert.f.crocker@power.alstom.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:31
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName \
w:st="on">sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net</st1:PersonName><br> <b><span \
style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Sisuite-users] Booting Opteron \
Servers</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:sans-serif'>So I've been playing with both the 3.5 and 3.4 versions
of SystemImager and can successfully pull images from Opteron boxes but I've
been having no luck whatsoever making a boot CD for the systems. The
si_mkautoinstallcd doesn't know anything about x86_64 architecture. I
hacked around on that and managed to create a boot disk but then that failed
horribly (would boot with a bunch of blank spaces and then a character and then
nothing).</span></font> <br>
<br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>I
then used the isolinux files from the SuSE 9.2 DVD and traced through what SI
was trying to do to create a boot disk that seems to get farther but crashes
looking for some .so files. First time it was libc.so.6 so I untarred the
boel_binaries file and added that into the disk image. Now it's failing
looking for librt.so.1 which I'm not sure is an actual improvement.<br>
<br>
So has anyone had any success booting an Opteron box for imaging? (Important
details - Adaptec Ultra 320 SCSI, Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet, Tyan Thunder K8W
motherboards).</span></font> <br>
<br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Thanks in advance,</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span \
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>Rob Crocker<br>
ALSTOM Power</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span \
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