Re: [PLUG] Add an HDD to a diskless cluster node?

[David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>]

I am sure you can still modprobe.

Does not explain why two systems which boot from an identical image 
don't load the same kernel modules. Any ideas on that?

On 2/25/11 3:33 PM, Doug Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, David Coulson<david@davidcoulson.net>  wrote:
> > You're missing these modules. Check /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf
> > from the system that is working and compare it to a system that is not.
> > Maybe manually modprobe for mptsas on the box that is not working and see if
> > it detects the disk.
> I guess I left this part out of my initial description:
>
> These are all booting per RedHat's diskless instructions (i.e. per
> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/System_Administration_Guide/Diskless_Environments.html).
> This has the disadvantage of booting from a "gold" image whose changes
> can be instantaneously pushed out to all clients. Modprobe won't work
> in this situation, if I'm reading the tea leaves correctly.
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