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First cluster project
by Justin C. Darby 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Hi folks, I'm just posting the first message of what I hope is a few updates to getting my current work project on-line. Some of you know me from the wiki (which I've been busy working on the outline of this project for and have neglected working on the last couple of days). After getting some very appreicated advice from Yhlu, I'm going to be installing LinuxBIOS on a three machines as part of a ColdFusion web server cluster in the very near future. I do not beleive the board we're going to be using is in the tree yet (but I am assured it will be soon). The board we're going to use is the Tyan Thunder K8WE (S2895) with the Ultra 320 SCSI controller. It's going to boot from IDE-CF, and the OS install will exist on the SCSI disks. All 3 machines will have BIOS Saviors installed on them (to make emergency repairs easier on my not so technically inclined coworkers). I'm going to document (hopefully) the entire process of getting the system running to the wiki, and if I can get good information from Yhlu and the rest of you, that will include building everything from source. The plan right now is to use LinuxBIOS + Etherboot to boot off of the IDE CF card, since booting from SCSI is more problematic (from what I hear). The systems will be using ATI Raedon chipset PCI express cards. This isin't a high capacity cluster in the sense most of you use, but it is a situation where we need every second to count as this is the first project we are going to be striving for 99.999 on internally. Other things we're using and I'm going to be documenting (but not likely in the wiki for LinuxBIOS).. these may be of interest to some folks here: * Lustre (If I can get a good dialogue with the ClusterFS folks started.. still waiting to hear from them. I need to mirror two hard disks over 1000mbit tcp/ip for redundancy.) * Debian/AMD-64 hosting a chrooted CentOS/i386 enviroment to run ColdFusion (ColdFusion requires RHEL/SUSE server.. we're going to give it a shot on CentOS because of the absuredly high cost of RHEL/SUSE server in our enviroment and the fact we can't run a native AMD64 built of it with ColdFusion anyway). * A custom loadbalancer module with keepalive for Apache I've written that I am still trying to get approval for releasing to the public (it's not quite done yet, anyhow -- only supports GET and POST, not HEAD, and POST support hasn't been well tested). * A custom configuration module for Apache that's still experimental on my part that allows virtualhost definitions to reside on a MySQL (or SQL Lite to remove the dependancy on MySQL only) server (if I can get this to work, I will also be pushing to release this to the public). * A set of patches to ProFTPD to allow authentication over MySQL (these will likely be contributed back to the ProFTPD development team). Anyhow, I'll provide more information to anyone who wants it. The idea isin't 100% intact, yet, we're still hammering out final details. Justin

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Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines?
by Dmitriy Budko 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Does anybody needs LinuxBIOS for VMware virtual machines? If you want it please describe why do you want it. Thanks, Dmitriy Budko, the maintainer of VMware's BIOS and chipset

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Re: Compilation Problem (overlaping sections)
by Jeff Stevens 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

I'm sorry, I was wrong. The AMD Quartet doesn't seem to compile either. I get the same error! --- Jeff Stevens <jsteve17(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I am trying to compile LinuxBios for a custom > quad-opteron system. I copied from the amd quartet > to > create my build environment. The Quartet seems to > compile correct, but mine errors out. Here is a > screen dump: > > objcopy -O binary linuxbios_ram linuxbios_ram.bin > ./nrv2b e linuxbios_ram.bin linuxbios_ram.nrv2b > input/output = 84556/28434 = 2.974 > cp linuxbios_ram.nrv2b linuxbios_ram.rom > gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o > linuxbios > -T ldscript.ld crt0.o > /usr/bin/ld: section .reset [fffdfff0 -> fffdffff] > overlaps section .rom [fffd6f16 -> fffe119f] > /usr/bin/ld: section .id [fffdffd7 -> fffdffef] > overlaps section .rom [fffd6f16 -> fffe119f] > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make[1]: *** [linuxbios] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/src/freebios_030205/freebios2/targets/cwcec/vortex/vortex/normal' > make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1 > > > Please help! > > Thanks in advance, > Jeff Stevens > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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Compilation Problem (overlaping sections)
by Jeff Stevens 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

I am trying to compile LinuxBios for a custom quad-opteron system. I copied from the amd quartet to create my build environment. The Quartet seems to compile correct, but mine errors out. Here is a screen dump: objcopy -O binary linuxbios_ram linuxbios_ram.bin ./nrv2b e linuxbios_ram.bin linuxbios_ram.nrv2b input/output = 84556/28434 = 2.974 cp linuxbios_ram.nrv2b linuxbios_ram.rom gcc -m32 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -static -o linuxbios -T ldscript.ld crt0.o /usr/bin/ld: section .reset [fffdfff0 -> fffdffff] overlaps section .rom [fffd6f16 -> fffe119f] /usr/bin/ld: section .id [fffdffd7 -> fffdffef] overlaps section .rom [fffd6f16 -> fffe119f] collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [linuxbios] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/freebios_030205/freebios2/targets/cwcec/vortex/vortex/normal' make: *** [normal/linuxbios.rom] Error 1 Please help! Thanks in advance, Jeff Stevens __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
by ramesh bios 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Ok, so I tried this specific sequence and it failed. making region read/write done making region read/write Verifing priq routing tables copy at 0xf0000...failed, f0000=b0 while 87c0=24 Could it be that f0000 is mapped to the flash? I'm trying to figure out whether that is technically possible for a gx1? Could the hardware somehow have a control that maps the 2Mbit flash to that block? Thanks. --- ramesh bios <ramesh_bios(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Ok, so I think this means I should: > 1. Enable writes for F0000h thru F3FFFh (in > gx_setup.inc) using BC_XMAP_3 > 2. Copy the pirq table to F0000 as in > pirq_routing.c:copy_pirq_routing_table > 3. Enable read and writes for F0000h thru F3FFFh in > pirq_routing.c:verify_copy_pirq_routing_table using > BC_XMAP_3 > > I'll give this a shot when I get some time and see > how > it goes. > > Thanks. > > --- "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> wrote: > > > > for shadow ram, you need to enable writes to go to > > ram. Later on, when you > > are done with a region, you need to enable reads. > > > > So the way you do this: figure out which one is > for > > 0xf0000. Enable writes > > (2). At the end of the process, you need to set > (3) > > for the area. > > > > > > And, somebody will have to explain how this fits > in > > with the new stuff, as > > I have not looked at shadow ram setup at all in > V2! > > > > ron > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! > Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web > http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Want to stay up to date?
by Stefan Reinauer 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

Hi, for all those of you using an RSS news reader (like KNewsTicker), you can get informed about changes of the LinuxBIOS wiki with the following rss feeds: Recently changed pages: http://wiki.linuxbios.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss New pages: http://wiki.linuxbios.org/index.php?title=Special:Newpages&feed=rss I have not succeeded yet putting the News page into an RSS stream yet Stefan

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ABout use LinuxBIOS with Tyan MB
by YhLu 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

All, Please email me if you are using LinuxBIOS with Tyan MB esp in production. Please include MB and usage... I want to some data to let my company to spend more effect to support LinuxBIOS and Opensource project. Regards YH

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Re: Fw: Re: Documentation [was: new FSF campaign ..]
by Peter Karlsson 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Anton Borisov wrote: > Payload is file that holds, for instance, LAN ROM, i.e. software >responsible for remoting loading from server. It's just an example. There >are FAQs (try to google) which explain much of your questions. LinuxBIOS (initialises hardware) -> payload (etherboot,OpenBIOS, FILO etc.) (-> operating system)? Ok, but that was just an example. Technical jargon explanation is still needed to get into linuxbios. For instance: http://www.clustermatic.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2003-March/002240.html This mail mentions SPD,VID,DID,I2C etc. Does everybody know what these mean? To get more people interested in linuxbios one has to lower the bars, and technical jargon is a major blocker (at least for me). And yes, I do know what i2c is, and I think I know what spd is (ram speed?) but vid & did does not ring a bell. For anyone not knowing what i2c is I'll recommend: http://www.esacademy.com/faq/i2c/index.htm Best regards Peter K

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RE: FILO dependencies
by Stephen.Kimball＠bench.com 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Thanks for the suggestions. FILO is fine. It work best when the CK804's IDE configuration registers are setup correctly. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Ronald G. Minnich [mailto:rminnich@lanl.gov] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 1:59 PM To: Kimball, Stephen Cc: linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org Subject: Re: FILO dependencies On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 Stephen.Kimball(a)bench.com wrote: > > I'm using FILO with nVidia reference board with a CK804. I've got > LinuxBIOS to load FILO and FILO sees the IDE controller but not the > drive. I thought FILO was device independent, but could the IDE > controllers on the CK804 require FILO changes? Wow, you've taken this far. Not sure yet. I need a board, so guess we'll order some. ron

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Re: Geode GX1 and IRQ tables
by ramesh bios 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

Ok, so I think this means I should: 1. Enable writes for F0000h thru F3FFFh (in gx_setup.inc) using BC_XMAP_3 2. Copy the pirq table to F0000 as in pirq_routing.c:copy_pirq_routing_table 3. Enable read and writes for F0000h thru F3FFFh in pirq_routing.c:verify_copy_pirq_routing_table using BC_XMAP_3 I'll give this a shot when I get some time and see how it goes. Thanks. --- "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich(a)lanl.gov> wrote: > > for shadow ram, you need to enable writes to go to > ram. Later on, when you > are done with a region, you need to enable reads. > > So the way you do this: figure out which one is for > 0xf0000. Enable writes > (2). At the end of the process, you need to set (3) > for the area. > > > And, somebody will have to explain how this fits in > with the new stuff, as > I have not looked at shadow ram setup at all in V2! > > ron > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > Linuxbios(a)clustermatic.org > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/

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