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=== Setup gefvme/tsi148 VME drivers === | |||
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Revision as of 14:11, 23 July 2014
VME CPU information
Cloning USB and CF Flash boot cards
The V7805 VME CPU can run Linux from USB flash memory, V7865 VME CPU can run Linux from CompactFlash or USB flash memory. Disk size 8 GB or bigger is recommended for running SL5.5 Linux. Highest available speed grade devices should be used: 266X or better for CompactFlash, 200X or "30MB read/15MB write" for USB Flash. Also be aware that some CompactFlash and USB Flash devices have been observed to corrupt Linux filesystems within a few days of use. The specific flash memory brands and models we presently use do not see to have this problem.
When working CompactFlash memory, attach it to a USB-CF adapter and treat it as USB flash memory in the following instructions.
Clone disk using the script clone.perl
- attach the USB flash disk to some computer connected to the LADD cluster
- become root
- check that correct device appears in the device list: fdisk -l
- assume new device is /dev/sdc
- select an Linux image that we will clone:
- 64-bit SL6 image for V7865 VME processors: use /ladd/data1/root/lxiris01
- 32-bit SL6 image for dual-Athlon machines: use /ladd/data1/root/ladd13
- cd /home/olchansk/sysadm/clone
- ./clone.perl /ladd/data1/root/ladd13 /dev/sdc
- df -kl ### check that /dev/sdc is not mounted
- disconnect the USB flash disk, try to boot from it.
The clone script has been tested in these configurations:
- clone 64-bit SL6 VME CPU image to 8GB and 16GB USB flash, GRUB bootloader
- clone 32-bit SL6 image to 500GB IDE-USB disk, EXTLINUX bootloader.
Note that the clone script has to be run from the correct directory per instructions above as it has to find and run the uuidfix script to make the destination disk bootable.
Clone disk manually
- attach USB flash to the computer to be cloned (or any computer - we will use rsync to copy the data)
- become root
- check that correct device appears in the device list: fdisk -l
- assume new device is /dev/sdX, original boot disk is /dev/sda.
- repartition the device:
- fdisk -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sdX
- create one partition covering the whole device
- set partition type 83 (Linux)
- set bootable flag (command "a")
- result should look like this:
[root@lxdaq09 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 8011 MB, 8011120640 bytes 224 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1247 cylinders Units = cylinders of 12544 * 512 = 6422528 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1247 7821156 83 Linux
- /usr/bin/time mke2fs -j /dev/sdX1 (should take about 30 seconds)
- tune2fs -i0 -c0 /dev/sdX1
- mkdir -p /mnt/tmp
- mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/tmp
- CLONE CURRENT BOOT DISK: cd /; rsync -ax . /mnt/tmp; cd /dev; rsync -a . /mnt/tmp/dev
- CLONE lxdaq08 32-bit boot image (V7805, V7865): cd /ladd/data1/root/lxdaq08; rsync -ax --delete-after . /mnt/tmp
- CLONE ANOTHER FLASH DISK: cd /another/flash/disk; /usr/bin/time rsync -ax . /mnt/tmp
- check result: run "df", new filesystem should be about as full as the original one
- sync; cd /; umount /dev/sdX1; mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/tmp
- install SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX boot loader (SL5)
- install master boot loader: cd /mnt/tmp/boot; dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX (NOTE: ***NOT** /dev/sdX1)
- install extlinux boot loader: cd /mnt/tmp/boot; ./extlinux -i . (NOTE: notice the "./" - make sure to run the extlinux executable from .../boot, NOT the one installed in the system)
- install GRUB boot loader (SL6) --- (NOTE: in the line below, remember to replace "/dev/sdX" with the disk name)
- echo -e "device (hd0) /dev/sdX\nroot (hd0,0)\nsetup (hd0)\n" | grub --batch --no-floppy
- update boot disk UUID (SL6) --- (NOTE: dumpe2fs prints the UUID of the new disk, cut-and-paste this UUID into the sed commands below)
- dumpe2fs /dev/sdX1 | grep UUID
- edit grub.conf: sed 's/UUID=\S*/UUID=ddc00d49-1c17-4803-ac0b-d6eb89d9e729/' -i /mnt/tmp/boot/grub/grub.conf
- edit fstab: sed 's/UUID=\S*/UUID=ddc00d49-1c17-4803-ac0b-d6eb89d9e729/' -i /mnt/tmp/etc/fstab
- cd /; umount /dev/sdX1
- disconnect the new boot disk, try to boot from it.
Cloning NFS-Root
We will clone "lxsrc" into "lxdst":
cd lxsrc mkdir ../lxdst rsync -av . ../lxdst vi etc/sysconfig/network ### change HOSTNAME and NIS domain vi etc/nodeinfo ### change description vi etc/yp.conf ### add "domain xxx-NIS broadcast" for the new NIS domain vi etc/fstab ### change the "/" NFS mount-point if needed vi etc/cron.d/triumf_nodeinfo ### change nodeinfo server name
Extlinux boot file
DEFAULT menu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 50 MENU TITLE TRIUMF DAQ USB BOOT32 ver K.O. 2011feb03 LABEL automatic MENU DEFAULT com32 ifcpu.c32 append debug multicore -- linux-V7865-32 -- linux-V7805 LABEL linux-V7865-32 kernel vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 append initrd=initrd-2.6.18-194.32.1.el5.img panic=60 ro rootdelay=5 rootwait ro root=/dev/sda1 LABEL linux-V7865-32-old kernel vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 append initrd=initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5-32-usbboot.img panic=60 ro rootdelay=5 rootwait ro root=/dev/sda1 LABEL linux-V7865-64 kernel vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 append initrd=initrd-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5.V7865.img panic=60 ro rootdelay=5 rootwait ro root=/dev/sda1 LABEL linux-V7805 kernel vmlinuz-2.6.34.1-32-v7805 append panic=60 rootdelay=5 rootwait ro root=/dev/sda1 LABEL memtest kernel memtest86+-1.65 #label linux # kernel vmlinuz-2.6.34.1-32-v7805 # append panic=60 rootdelay=5 rootwait ro root=/dev/sda1 #label linux # kernel vmlinuz-2.6.34.1-32-v7805 # append panic=60 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=142.90.111.60:/home1/laddvme05.triumf.ca,nfsvers=3,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 ip=::::::dhcp console=ttyS0,115200n8
Updating Linux kernel
Updating Linux kernel on USB/CF flash boot disks
- install latest kernel: yum update
- identify latest kernel files:
- ls -ltr /boot | grep vmlinuz | tail -1
- ls -ltr /boot | grep initrd | tail -1
- edit /boot/extlinux.conf
- duplicate the entry marked "MENU DEFAULT"
- change file names for the first entry according to the newly installed kernel
- remove "MENU DEFAULT" from all entries except the new one
- reboot into the new kernel
Setup GRUB2
# not fdisk -cu -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sdc # or fdisk -cu -H 64 -S 32 /dev/sdc # or fdisk -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sdc # start the first partition from cylinder 10 # or fdisk -H 255 -S 63 /dev/sdc # start the first partition from cylinder 10 fdisk -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sdc # start the first partition from cylinder 10 mke2fs -t ext3 /dev/sdc1 tune2fs -c0 -i0 /dev/sdc1 mkdir -p /mnt/tmp mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/tmp cd /mnt/tmp # NOT THIS: rsync -av /ladd/data0/root/lxdaq02-usb/ . rsync -av /ladd/data0/backup.os/lxdaq02/ . #cd /home/olchansk/git/grub #./grub-install -v --directory ./grub-core /dev/sdc --boot-directory=/mnt/tmp/boot --root-directory=/mnt/tmp cd /mnt/tmp ./opt/grub/sbin/grub-install -v --directory=/mnt/tmp/opt/grub/lib/grub/i386-pc --boot-directory=/mnt/tmp/boot --root-directory=/mnt/tmp /dev/sdc ./root/git/scripts/clone/uuidfix.perl -v /mnt/tmp xemacs -nw etc/sysconfig/network # change hostname xemacs -nw etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # change IP address xemacs -nw etc/nodeinfo # change description cd / umount /mnt/tmp eject /dev/sdc
Partition table:
[root@lxdaq01 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 16.0 GB, 16013852672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x62f63f6c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 10 1946 15558952+ 83 Linux [root@lxdaq01 ~]#
NOT THIS:
[root@ladd21 grub]# fdisk -lcu /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 16.0 GB, 16013852672 bytes 87 heads, 48 sectors/track, 7489 cylinders, total 31277056 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x855bfadf Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 2048 31277055 15637504 83 Linux [root@ladd21 grub]#
grub.cgf:
[root@ladd21 grub]# cat /media/edd35353-82d7-4e18-aeeb-2073ce19c543/boot/grub/grub.cfg # Begin /boot/grub/grub.cfg set default=0 set timeout=5 insmod ext3 set root=(hd0,1) menuentry "memtest86+-4.10" { linux16 /boot/memtest86+-4.10 } menuentry "SL6-V7805-KO2" { linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.1-V7805-KO2 panic=60 rootwait ro root=/dev/sda1 } menuentry "GNU/Linux, Linux 3.15.1-lfs-SVN-20140702" { linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.15.1-lfs-SVN-20140702 root=/dev/sda2 ro } #
V7805 special settings
Because of hardware incompatibility, the V7805 cannot run vanilla RedHat/SL linux kernels.
Because of hardware incompatibility, the V7805 cannot boot from 16GB USB flash. Please use 8GB USB flash media.
To run RH/SL linux, a special linux kernel has to be built with special PCI configuration:
NOTE: kernel 2.6.34.1 works, newer kernels do not seem to work.
ladd00:linux-2.6.34.1$ grep PCI .config CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y # Bus options (PCI etc.) CONFIG_PCI=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT=y # CONFIG_PCI_GOOLPC is not set # CONFIG_PCI_GOANY is not set CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS=y # CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS is not set # CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set # CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_PCI_STUB=y CONFIG_PCI_IOV=y # CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI is not set # CONFIG_PATA_CMD640_PCI is not set CONFIG_NET_PCI=y # CONFIG_KSZ884X_PCI is not set # CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set # CONFIG_SERIO_PCIPS2 is not set CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y # CONFIG_UIO_PCI_GENERIC is not set ladd00:linux-2.6.34.1$
V7865 BIOS Settings
- enter BIOS by pressing "DEL" during power up
- Boot->Boot setting "Wait for F1" set to "Disabled"
- Chipset->South Bridge "USB 2.0 Controller" set to "Enabled"
- Advanced->IDE configuration set to "Disabled" (unless using CompactFlash boot disk)
- Advanced->Remote access set to "Disabled"
- Advanced->USB->"USB 2.0 Controller Mode" set to "HiSpeed"
- Exit-> "Save changes and Exit"
Network boot
Explanation
Network booting of linux computers is done by, in order:
- PXE (in-BIOS, in-EFI-BOOT or GPXE booted from disk) issues DHCP request to learn the IP address and further boot instructions
- DHCP server (/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf) responds with the IP address and instructions to boot pxelinux.0
- TFTP server (with the xinetd server) provides access to files in /var/lib/tftpboot on the boot host
- pxe and pxelinux use tftp to load pxelinux.0, the pxelinux config file (pxelinux.cfg/default or as specified in dhcpd.conf), the linux kernel and the linux initramfs files
- the linux kernel uses DHCP (again) to configure the network and mount the root file system (as specified in dhcpd.conf)
- NFS server on the boot host provides access to the root filesystem.
After booting is complete only the NFS server is required for running Linux. After Linux is fully booted, DHCP, TFTP and PXE are not used (until reboot).
Setup the boot host computer
install packages
yum install dhcp tftp-server
configure dhcpd
- create emacs -nw /etc/logrotate.d/dhcp
/var/log/dhcp.log { weekly notifempty missingok postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/rsyslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript }
- put this in emacs -nw /etc/rsyslog.conf right after the line "#### RULES ####"
#### RULES #### # Annoying dhcp spam ... (need to add to rotation ...) local3.* -/var/log/dhcp.log local3.* ~
- chmod a+rx /etc/dhcp
- emacs -nw /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf - add contents from the next section
- emacs -nw /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf - customize for this boot host:
- change "next-server" to the hostname of this host
- change "host" entries
- chkconfig dhcpd on
- service rsyslog restart # to enable dhcp.log
- service dhcpd restart # watch /var/log/messages for errors, watch /var/log/dhcp.log for dhcp activity
- try to boot the VME CPU, watch messages in dhcp.log should be similar to those shown in the next section, the VME CPU should get an IP address and stop on "TFTP load" stage
setup tftp
- emacs -nw /etc/xinetd.d/tftp line "server_args" to read "server_args = -vvvv -s /var/lib/tftpboot"
- chkconfig tftp on
- chkconfig xinetd on
- service xinetd restart
- try to boot the VME CPU, watch messages in the syslog, should see message about "pxelinux.0 not found", the VME CPU should get an IP address and stop with an error "TFTP - File not found"
setup pxelinux
- get isolinux/pxelinux version 4.03 from http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project
cd ~ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/4.xx/syslinux-4.03.tar.bz2 tar xjvf syslinux-4.03.tar.bz2 cd syslinux-4.03 cp -pv ./core/pxelinux.0 ./com32/hdt/hdt.c32 ./memdisk/memdisk ./com32/menu/menu.c32 /var/lib/tftpboot/
- mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
- create /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default with contents from the next section
- get additional boot files
cd /var/lib/tftpboot wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/memtest86+-4.20.iso.zip wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/memtest86+-5.01.iso.gz wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/modules.alias wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/modules.pcimap wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/pci.ids
setup linux kernel files
- get vmlinuz and initramfs files from the VME processor boot image
- note that the initramfs file needs to be built with the dracut-network function, it should be about 2.5Mbytes in size.
- note the file names must match the file names in the pxelinux config file
wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.i686 wget http://ladd00.triumf.ca/tftpboot/initramfs-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.i686.img
- try to boot the VME CPU, watch messages in the syslog, the VME CPU should get an IP address, load the PXELINUX menu, load the linux kernel and stop with an error mounting NFS filesystems.
setup NFS export of VME processor boot image
- copy the VME processor boot image to /nfsroot/alphavme03 (or /home1/alphavme03)
- customise the boot image per instructions in previous section (edit sysconfig/network, etc)
- edit /etc/exports:
/nfsroot/alphavme03 daqtmp4(rw,no_root_squash,async)
- chkconfig nfs on; service nfs restart
- if needed adjust the boot image path name in dhcpd.conf to match the export name in /etc/exports, restart dhcpd.conf
- try to boot the VME CPU, watch messages in the syslog, the VME CPU should get an IP address, load the PXELINUX menu, load the linux kernel, linux kernel will start, mount the VME processor boot image ("NFS Root"), boot the userland. At the end you should be able to ping and ssh into the VME processor.
fixup file permissions
cd /var/lib/tftpboot chown -R root.root . chmod a+r * chmod a-w *
DHCP configuration
# # /etc/dhcpd.conf # # # general setup # log-facility local3; # make network booting the SystemImager autoinstallclient possible allow booting; allow bootp; ignore unknown-clients; ddns-update-style ad-hoc; # set lease time to 3 days default-lease-time 259200; max-lease-time 259200; # define network addresses subnet 142.90.96.0 netmask 255.255.224.0 { not authoritative; ignore unknown-clients; option domain-name "triumf.ca"; option domain-name-servers 142.90.100.19; option routers 142.90.100.18; } # special PXELINUX options option space pxelinux; option pxelinux.magic code 208 = string; option pxelinux.configfile code 209 = text; option pxelinux.pathprefix code 210 = text; option pxelinux.reboottime code 211 = unsigned integer 32; # # setup for TIGRESS VME processors (boot from midtig06) # group { filename "pxelinux.0"; #next-server ladd00; option routers 142.90.100.18; option subnet-mask 255.255.224.0; option domain-name "triumf.ca"; option domain-name-servers 142.90.100.19, 142.90.100.68; #use-host-decl-names on; site-option-space "pxelinux"; if exists dhcp-parameter-request-list { # Always send the PXELINUX options (specified in hexadecimal) option dhcp-parameter-request-list = concat(option dhcp-parameter-request-list,d0,d1,d2,d3); } option pxelinux.reboottime 10; option pxelinux.pathprefix "./"; #option pxelinux.configfile "pxelinux.cfg/default"; option pxelinux.configfile "pxelinux.cfg/V7750-SL6a"; #host lxdaq17-eth0 { option pxelinux.configfile "pxelinux.cfg/V7750-SL6a"; option host-name "lxdaq17.triumf.ca"; option root-path "nfs:ladd00:/data0/root/lxdaq17:rw"; fixed-address lxdaq17; hardware ethernet 00:20:38:00:DA:1D; } #host lxdaq17-eth1 { option pxelinux.configfile "pxelinux.cfg/V7750-SL6a"; option host-name "lxdaq17.triumf.ca"; option root-path "nfs:ladd00:/data0/root/lxdaq17:rw"; fixed-address lxdaq17; hardware ethernet 00:20:38:00:DA:1F; } }
PXELINUX configuration
[root@ladd00 pxelinux.cfg]# more /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/V7750-SL6d default menu.c32 prompt 0 menu title Welcome to the LADD00 VME V7750 PXE boot menu timeout 50 label hdt kernel hdt.c32 label memtest86+-5.01 kernel memdisk iso initrd=memtest86+-5.01.iso.gz label memtest86+-4.20 kernel memdisk iso initrd=memtest86+-4.20.iso.zip label SL6-431.11.2 menu default kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.i686 append default_hugepagesz=0 hugepages=0 hugepagesz=0 highmem=0 userpte=nohigh apm=off acpi=off initrd=initramfs-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.i686.img root=dhcp panic=60 label SL6-358.18 kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686 append default_hugepagesz=0 hugepages=0 hugepagesz=0 highmem=0 userpte=nohigh apm=off acpi=off initrd=initramfs-2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.i686.img root=dhcp panic=60 label SL6-220.4 kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.i686 append default_hugepagesz=0 hugepages=0 hugepagesz=0 highmem=0 userpte=nohigh apm=off acpi=off initrd=initramfs-2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.i686.img root=dhcp panic=60 #end
Boot host dhcp messages
grep -i b4 /var/log/dhcp.log [root@daqtmp5 Desktop]# grep -i 0e:b4 /var/log/dhcp.log Jun 10 12:50:26 daqtmp5 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:20:38:03:0e:b4 via eth0 Jun 10 12:50:26 daqtmp5 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 142.90.96.104 to 00:20:38:03:0e:b4 via eth0 Jun 10 12:50:28 daqtmp5 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 142.90.96.104 (142.90.96.105) from 00:20:38:03:0e:b4 via eth0 Jun 10 12:50:28 daqtmp5 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 142.90.96.104 to 00:20:38:03:0e:b4 via eth0
Boot host syslog messages
tail -100f /var/log/messages May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 xinetd[1860]: START: tftp pid=3396 from=142.90.111.107 May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 in.tftpd[3398]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename pxelinux.0 May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 in.tftpd[3398]: tftp: client does not accept options May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 in.tftpd[3400]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename pxelinux.0 May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 in.tftpd[3402]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename ./pxelinux.cfg/V7750-SL6d May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 in.tftpd[3404]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename ./menu.c32 May 5 15:54:08 ladd00 in.tftpd[3406]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename ./pxelinux.cfg/V7750-SL6d May 5 15:54:13 ladd00 in.tftpd[3418]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename ./vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.i686 May 5 15:54:14 ladd00 in.tftpd[3431]: RRQ from 142.90.111.107 filename ./initramfs-2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.i686.img May 5 15:54:29 ladd00 rpc.mountd[1796]: authenticated mount request from lxdaq17.triumf.ca:677 for /data0/root/lxdaq17 (/data0)
Setup gefvme/tsi148 VME drivers
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