Hi,
Has anyone used a 2.4 series kernel on RHEL4/Centos4?
There's a patch (openmosix) which I would really like to make use of [seeing as I just got 10 diskless computers...] which is not ready (yet) for the 2.6 kernel series...
Can I just drop in a 2.4.26 series kernel and continue to have a working system? Or is RHEL now totally dependent on 2.6 kernel features?
Cheers, MaZe.
On Thursday 15 December 2005 19:20, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
There's a patch (openmosix) which I would really like to make use of [seeing as I just got 10 diskless computers...] which is not ready (yet) for the 2.6 kernel series...
Can I just drop in a 2.4.26 series kernel and continue to have a working system? Or is RHEL now totally dependent on 2.6 kernel features?
CentOS 4 is quite dependent upon 2.6 kernels. Is using CentOS 3 not an option? CentOS 3 uses a 2.4 kernel that could take the openmosix patch.
However, there is a 2.6 openMosix, but it's only available in CVS right now. There are bootable openMosix floppies for instant clusters, as well. Cool stuff.
CentOS 4 is quite dependent upon 2.6 kernels. Is using CentOS 3 not an option? CentOS 3 uses a 2.4 kernel that could take the openmosix patch.
Well, the head node is already fully configured with Centos4. I figured changing the kernel would be a lot lot easier than replacing the entire OS and reconfiguring everything (configuration being the result of over a years work...)
However, there is a 2.6 openMosix, but it's only available in CVS right now. There are bootable openMosix floppies for instant clusters, as well. Cool stuff.
Yes, I know, however this doesn't _seem_ to be quite production use yet. I probably will try to port the RH patches (if any are even needed) to kernel 2.6.14.4 and then apply openmosix 2.6 on top of that. We'll see when I have the time for this and if it's even possible.
Thanks, MaZe.
On 12/15/05, Maciej Żenczykowski maze@cela.pl wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone used a 2.4 series kernel on RHEL4/Centos4?
There's a patch (openmosix) which I would really like to make use of [seeing as I just got 10 diskless computers...] which is not ready (yet) for the 2.6 kernel series...
Can I just drop in a 2.4.26 series kernel and continue to have a working system? Or is RHEL now totally dependent on 2.6 kernel features?
Your best bet is to go RHEL3/CentOS 3 -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.
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