[nmglug] more fun with openmosix

[Karl Hegbloom]

bill york wrote:
> good news: finally got the kernel patched and rebuilt. the latest 
> openmosix kernel patch is for the 2.4.26 kernel so that's what i gots to 
> use.

Did you try Quantian?  You need a DVD burner for the latest version; 
older ones fit on CD.

> bad news. i'm getting an error about every 5 seconds that is
> scandir: no such device or address

Obviously check with the OpenMosix community mailing list archives on 
that one...  My guess is it's something to do with that Mosix File 
System or something... the shared file system thing it has.  (I wish I 
had several computers to put up a cluster of my own on.)

> i'm certain this is one of the options i had to choose (and i chose 
> poorly) during the make menuconfig phase, but shoot me in the head if i 
> know what i did wrong. if this helps, it also appears that the machine, 
> though it can communicate with the world (apt) can't be reached by other 
> machines (ping, ssh, etc). i'm pretty sure that since i can get out, my 
> drivers are OK.

Agreed.  Check 'iptables --list | less' and see if it's that, I guess.

> I guess what would be really helpful is if there's a way to get a 
> .config file out of a running kernel.

Only if that option was checked off when it was built, then it would be 
available as /proc/config.gz.  Otherwise, look for it in 
/boot/config-KVER; on Debian if you build the kernel with 'make-kpkg', 
it will always install the .config there.

If you are not useing 'make-kpkg' (from the 'kernel-package' deb) then 
you should be.  It's easy to learn to use, and makes kernel 
upgrade/install a lot simpler.