Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Installation/Nodes


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Jul 21, 2011 11:45:01 PM (13 years ago)
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jhickey
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    v4 v5  
    88 * [http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19186 Intel PXE firmware and utilities]
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     10= Adding information about your switch, power controller, and serial lines to the database =
     11
    1012== Setting up your Switch ==
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    1115
    1216== Setting up your power controller ==
    … …  
    1418== Setting up your serial server ==
    1519 TBD
    16 
    17 = Testbed Nodes =
    18 
    19 == Network connections ==
    20 
    21 Generally each node will have a control network interface and experimental interfaces.  The control network interface should be on a switch port that is on the CONTROL (VLAN 2003) network.  The experimental interfaces should be on ports that are enabled, but can be in a default VLAN for now.
    22 
    23 == BIOS settings for testbed nodes ==
    24 
    25 The testbed nodes should be set to boot only off of the network.  Disable hard drive boot to prevent failed PXE requests from falling through to booting whatever is on the disk.
    2620
    2721= Setting up the PXE environment on boss =
    … …  
    3125When the PXE boot ROM is loaded during machine boot.
    3226
    33 The default bootloader for testbed nodes
     27The default bootloader for testbed nodes is /tftpboot/pxeboot.emu.  There are four different versions of pxeboot.emu distributed with the tarball.
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     29 * pxeboot.emu-null : Does not display pxeloader prompt
     30 * pxeboot.emu-sio  : Displays pxeloader prompt via COM1 serial port
     31 * pxeboot.emu-sio2 : Displays pxeloader prompt via COM2 serial port
     32 * pxeboot.emu-vga  : Displays pxeloader prompt via video out
    3433
    3534== Setting up the MFS for testbed nodes ==
    … …  
    5150 
    5251The reason all these tasks are split up among multiple images is to keep the image size down since they are booted over the network.  With faster networks, these images will likely be rolled into a single Linux based image in the future.
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     53= Testbed Nodes =
     54
     55== Network connections ==
     56
     57Generally each node will have a control network interface and experimental interfaces.  The control network interface should be on a switch port that is on the CONTROL (VLAN 2003) network.  The experimental interfaces should be on ports that are enabled, but can be in a default VLAN for now.
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     59== BIOS settings for testbed nodes ==
     60
     61The testbed nodes should be set to boot only off of the network.  Disable hard drive boot to prevent failed PXE requests from falling through to booting whatever is on the disk.