[Lustre-discuss] Anybody have a client running on a 2.6.37 or later kernel?

[Carlson, Timothy S]

I'm trying that path as well but getting the RHEL 6 kernel going on my machine has proven a bit hard. I got 2.6.37.6 going on the first try but the RHEL 6 kernel is having a problem finding my root partition. This is usually a driver not getting loaded into the initrd. I  build the kernel just  fine, it looks like I have the correct modules to support booting from my IDE (exposed as a SCSI) drive, but I get the dreaded "can't find /" and then an init panic.  It's a pretty basic system, with no LVM or other complications. I'll figure it out eventually, but I've had to use my IPMI console way too much in the past day to boot back into working kernels. :)  

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Van Maren [mailto:KVanMaren at fusionio.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:24 AM
> To: Carlson, Timothy S
> Cc: Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
> Subject: Re: [Lustre-discuss] Anybody have a client running on a 2.6.37 or
> later kernel?
> 
> Why not use the RHEL6 kernel on RHEL5?  That's probably much easier.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 9:50 PM, "Carlson, Timothy S"
> <Timothy.Carlson at pnnl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Folks,
> >
> > I've got a need to run a 2.6.37 or later kernel on client machines in order to
> properly support AMD Interlagos CPUs. My other option is to switch from
> RHEL 5.x to RHEL 6.x and use the whamcloud 1.8.6-wc1 patchless client (the
> latest RHEL 6 kernel also supports Interlagos). But I would first like to
> investigate using a 2.6.37 or later kernel on RHEL 5.
> >
> > I have a running kernel and started down the path of building Lustre
> against 2.6.37.6 and ran into the changes that have been made wrt to ioctl(),
> proc structures, etc.  I am *not* a kernel programmer would rather not mess
> around too much in the source.
> >
> > So I am asking if anyone has successfully patched up Lustre to get a client
> working with 2.6.37.6 or later.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tim
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