[ale] any other Mosix user's out there; if yes, 'coupla questions.........

[Jeff Hubbs]

I attempted a Mosix install a few months ago and did manage to 
successfully establish "node one" of my cluster.

In the Mosix docs, they want you to go straight to kernel.org for a 
particular kernel version, upon which you perform the Mosix installation.

- Jeff

Vernard Martin wrote:

>>I am running 2.4.17 on debian and redhat. 
>>
>>When redhat[7.2] installed the mosix kernel, it used redhat's 
>>original kernel, [2.4.7-10], and is also utilizing initrd.
>>
> 
> Does redhat 7.2 have an actual option to install mosix or did you install mosix
> on top of an existing redhat 7.2 system? 
>   
> 
>>Without causing havoc, can I edit lilo.conf to alter these 
>>parameters ? If not, how can Mosix be forced to use the more 
>>recent kernel ? 
>>
> 
> My understanding of Mosix is that it is modificaitons to the existing redhat
> 7.2 kernel that enales the features of MOSIX. So once you have recompiled the
> kernel with these mods, you will need to edit lilo so that it boots the correct
> kernel that contains the mosix enhancements.
>   
> 
>>Also, of what value, if any, might be it's using initrd ?
>>
> 
> The initial ramdisk is used to load individual modules that are not compiled
> into the kernel at boot time. If you don't have any modules of this nature then
> you don't need to use it. I seem to recall that MOSIX compiled all of its
> feature set internally so that it doesn't need any non-standard modules.
> 
> V
> 




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