GE XVB601 ROC
Configuring the INTEL based GE XVB601 ROC
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
- plug in the two USB connectors for the drive
- The drive shows up in the setup utility, select it as the Boot #1 device
- used "linux text" to avoid GUI install
- selected local CD ROM install
- selected USB mass storage driver
- I did test the install media
- 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.
- used grub bootloader
- selected USB device driver for getting install from DVD
- do not use V6 protocol for DNS, mask is 255.255.255.0
- use DHCP but put in IP address and name
- deselect KNome and KDE DESKTOP , select server
- select customize install to choose packages
- 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.) download the linux VME files from JLab
scp -r tforest@login1.jlab.org:/site/coda/2.6.1/extensions/linuxvme ./
3.) install "kmod-gefvme-PAE"
Did you find a "kmod-gefvme-PAE" kernel that matches that in your CentOS install? You may need to do a
yum upgrade
to update your packages from 5.3 to the current version.
4.) install gefvme-kmod-common package 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/
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