Finally wrote a working image on the one node with a different mobo, it was a minor mess doing so. In order to figure out the values for modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 8139too install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe uhci_hcd; /bin/true install ide-controller /sbin/modprobe via82cxxx; /sbin/modprobe ide_generic; /bin/true alias pci:v000010ECd00008139sv000010ECsd00008139bc02sc00i00 8139too I still had to to do a basic install on that node The first 3 lines I could probably have figured out eventually from the modprobe.conf from the previous release, but that last line, no way. For future reference: 1. write / and /boot from an image made from an S2466 system using a boel3 script (this also wrote all known node specific files) 2. ^C to break to boel shell 3. mkdir /a mount /dev/hda3 /a mount /dev/hda1 /a/boot chroot /a # file name will change for each release!!! rm -f /boot/initrd-2.6.24.7-desktop-2mnb.img # expect and ignore warnings mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24.7-desktop-2mnb.img 2.6.24.7-desktop-2mnb # the preceding stomped our custom inittab, put it back cp -f /etc/inittab.saf /etc/inittab exit reboot 4. Need to run lilo now or at reboot it STILL comes up using the wrong modules. You can guess how I found that out. Lilo won't work reliably chroot from boel3 with this Mandriva distro, and boel3 has no lilo of its own. So pxe boot the node with PLD 2.01, then at the prompt: mkdir /a mount /dev/hda3 /a mount /dev/hda1 /boot lilo -C /a/etc/lilo.conf #reset dhcpd on the master so this node will boot from internal disk reboot At least reinstalling on this node would now be less painful, since the new initrd has been stored on the SI server, and could be put in place by just copying it in the installation script. All and all though, this isn't a very elegant way to install a system image on a different type of machine. Regards, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
