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.
OS Install From JLab image
Boot any Unix OS using a CD attached to the ROC USB drive. Plug in the drive, then power on the ROC, then hit F2 to enter the utility BIOS,
select the CD/DVD as the Boot #1 device.
Also under the chipset menu
Chipset -> South Bridge Configuration -> SATA Configuration -> SATA Mode Selection = AHCI
Then Download the CentOS image from the JLab site
https://coda.jlab.org/drupal/content/os-installation-disk-image
then write the image to the /dev/sda drive using the command below
gunzip -c <image> | dd of=/dev/sda
The Cent OS 5 image size was about 379 Meg so there is plenty of room on the 1.7 Gig bootable CD's virtual disk.
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.) 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
and
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
7.) other tasks
Install package for using X applications remotely:
yum install xorg-x11-xauth
Install a few other packages for source code building and other tools:
yum install xorg-x11-xauth emacs xterm compat-libstdc++-33 cpp gcc gdb glib2-devel glibc-devel glibc-headers kernel-devel kernel-headers kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-devel ntp subversion valgrind openmotif22
Copy over and install the VME kernel driver and API Turn off a number of services that we do not need: sendmail, syslog, cups, bluetooth chkconfig --level 2345 <service> off
Setting it up as a ROC
In General the ROC will be the place you compile readoutlists and libraries for the VME modules.
You will also need to run the "coda_roc3" application as this replaces the tasks done previously using VxWorks.
Turn off the firewalls
/sbin/service iptables stop
echo 0 >/selinux/enforce
User Account
I decide to creat the user account "day" and copy all the coda 3.0 files there
I did the following command on the day account on rocdaq2
mkdir CODA
cd CODA
mkdir 3.06
cd 3.06
scp username@ftp.jlab.org:/site/coda/3.06/linuxvme ./
Readout lists
Module Libraries
Copy the module libraries from the JLab subdirectory
/site/coda/contrib/devel/
cd ~/CODA/linuxvme/devel
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