troubles with node startup

Sean Dilda agrajag at scyld.com
Mon May 21 13:11:40 PDT 2001


On Wed, 09 May 2001, Sean Sturley wrote:

> On searching the net I have found info stating that the VM: error (under
> normal Redhat Linux)  can be rectified by upgrading to the latest kernel.
> Therefore is there a more recent version of the beowulf kernel or can I use
> a later one from kernel.org ?

We are currently working on a new release that includes a newer kernel
(one new enough to fix your problem).  If you are interested, we would
be interested in talking to you about beta testing this new release.

> 
> Secondly,
> Is there a way to force the order in which the slave nodes boot the network
> cards. On half of the machine the 10/100 card boots and process the RARP
> info
> and on the other half its the on-board 10meg lan card ( They are different
> motherboards in about 11 of them)

It should be using all of your network cards to send out the RARP
requests.




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