[Quantian-general] Running Openmosix on a 2.6 kernel

[Brown, Dr Nigel]

I agree Denis that 2.4 lack of wifi is a deal-breaker
Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: quantian-general-bounces+nigel.brown=qml.com.au at lists.alioth.debian.org [mailto:quantian-general-bounces+nigel.brown=qml.com.au at lists.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Denis Mx
Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:30
To: quantian-general at lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: [Quantian-general] Running Openmosix on a 2.6 kernel

Tks Dirk. Didn't realize that the 2.6 kernel was not
openmosix'ed ;-) After your answer, I found a thread
in the forum archives saying this, indeed. By the way,
for those wondering what is the correct cheat code
(some say wrongly that it is knoppix24), it is
linux24.

Is there a way to get openmosix to work in the 2.6
environment? Some how-to somewhere? Here is why I'm
asking:

The 2.4 kernel doesn't recognize my wifi on my laptop
and freezes at bootime on my AMD Thunderbird. After
hours of trying different boot options, I quit trying
to use that kernel on my Thunderbird. It has a
spurrious irq 7 that makes the kernel go nuts, if I
understand the problem correctly.

There is another machine on which I will try your
suggestion, but even if it works, it is not an option
for me to use that machine in the cluster.

So unless I find a workaround using the 2.6 kernel,
I'm stuck for a while.

Denis

--- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> a écrit :

> 
> Hi Denis,
> 
> On 16 January 2007 at 16:02, Denis Mx wrote:
> | I wanted to explore clustering using Quantian and
> | Chaos, since Quantian has interesting applications
> | that can use clustering.
> | 
> | After booting the latest dvd version (0.7
> something),
> | setting up the network and testing it all around
> | successfully, I opened openmosixview: not a single
> | node. To make a long story short, I haven't been
> able
> | to start openmosix with the dvd version. At one
> point
> | I even get the message "this is not an openmosix
> | system" when trying /etc/init.d/openmosix start.
> | Starting the openmosix terminal server doesn't do
> | anything.
> | 
> | So I've tried with the cd version I saw on the
> | mirror's site. It is based on an older version of
> | Knoppix, so it doesn't auto recognize my wifi on
> the
> | laptop. Too bad. But I've loaded it on another
> | machine, and it when I saw that it counted it's
> node
> | in openmosixviewer, I loaded the dvd version of
> | Quantian on another machine. The other machine
> still
> | did not see any nodes. So I've loaded Chaos on
> this
> | other machine, and Quantian-cd-version (old
> Knoppix)
> | saw both nodes. Great! I've tested some apps and
> the
> | apps were migrated to the other nodes.
> 
> Chaos and older version of Quantian, just like
> clusterKnoppix itself, all
> _defaulted to loading the openMosix-ready 2.4
> kernel_.
>  
> | So I've come to the conclusion that Openmosix is
> not
> | set up properly on the latest dvd version of
> Quantian.
> 
> Newer versions of Quantian default to the 2.6
> kernel, so you have to
> explicitly load the 2.4 kernel.  If and when you do
> that, it should
> plug-and-play with Chaos, clusterKnoppix and other
> systems running the same
> old 2.4 kernel with openMosix.
> 
> openMosix for 2.6 has been "ready any time now" for
> the last few years, but
> there is still no real release.
>  
> | Anyone else can provide input on this?
> 
> Could you try again and make sure you get the 2.4
> kernel from the boot
> prompt? 
> 
> Good luck,  Dirk
> 
> -- 
> Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to
> accomplish something. 
>                                                   --
> Thomas A. Edison
> 

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