GE XVB601 ROC

Configuring the INTEL based GE XVB601 ROC

Currently we have the ROCs called rocdaq1 and rocdaq2 defined in the DNS

Configuration out of the box

You can set up a VGA terminal and a USB keyboard into one of the USB slots which seems to recieve input from teh keyboard and output information to the screen

Utility screen

By hitting the "del" key when booting the ROC you can enter into a setup Utility program.

I did

Advanced->Onboard Device, and changed the memory size from 64 MB to 512MB 

I also enable Onboard Gigabit LAN 1.

Install using USB DVD drive

I borrowed a USB DVD drive from Ben Nickel to install CENTOS from a live DVD

1. plug in the two USB connectors for the drive
2. The drive shows up in the setup utility, select it as the Boot #1 device
3. used "linux text" to avoid GUI install
4. selected local CD ROM install
5. selected USB mass storage driver
6. I did test the install media
7. I select Remove linux partitions on selected drives and create default layout. This will result in a small /boot and a large / partition as well as a swap partition.
8. used grub bootloader
9. selected USB device driver for getting install from DVD
10. do not use V6 protocol for DNS, mask is 255.255.255.0
11. use DHCP but put in IP address and name
12. deselect KNome and KDE DESKTOP , select server
13. select customize install to choose packages
14. select server installation and went through list customizing packages, uncluded X11 and Java, and admin tools

finished installing on 134.50.3.17

daq2:134.50.3.12

post installation tasks

1.) Do

yum -v upgrade

the above will upgrade your distribution

2.) check that your kernel versions is 2.6.18-128el5

[root@rocdaq1 RPMS]# uname -a Linux rocdaq1 2.6.18-128.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:44:23 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

3.) download the linux VME files from JLab

scp -r tforest@login1.jlab.org:/site/coda/2.6.1/extensions/linuxvme ./

4.) install "kmod-gefvme-PAE"

cd linuxvme/RPMS

 rpm -i kmod-gefvme-4.1.1-k2.6.18_128.el5.i686.rpm 

5.) install gefvme-kmod-common package

rpm -i gefvme-kmod-common-4.1-0.i386.rpm 

You will also need to install the gefvme-kmod-common package. Both of those packages are on the JLAB CUE directory:

/site/coda/2.6.1/extensions/linuxvme/RPMS/

6.) turn off firewall

/sbin/services iptables stop

References

https://clonwiki.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/GE_XVB601

https://coda.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Intel-based_VME_Controllers

Drivers for the VME are here:

 /site/coda/2.6.1/extensions/linuxvme/RPMs

Readout_Controller_Configuration