Re: [Wg-test-framework] More machines available

["Paul L. George" <pgeorge@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian 
When we setup the BIOS on the bench I don't remember having a problem with 
setting the com port for console operation.

I would have mentioned it at the time.

I was out Most of Monday and all of today due to a medical procedure but Chris 
was making the serial  adaptors and I did not expect to be out the entire day.  
If all goes well I will cable up the  ARM Crate tomorrow.

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Paul l. George
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> On Mar 3, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Don Koch writes ("More machines available"):
>> Four more machines are now ready for use:
>> 
>> merlot1
>> nocera1
>> godello0
>> godello1
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> Note: godello* can't boot 32-bit systems. I installed a 64-bit fedora
>> for testing.
> 
> Right.
> 
> I will make a note of that.
> 
> 
> I have set up ansible and am using it for various things; you can find
> it /root/playbook on newcastle.  The rune to deploy is, as root,
>  ansible-playbook site.yml
> 
> I have been messing about with serial stuff which seems to be going
> well.
> 
> I did find that the serial1 vm is not able to talk to the Debian
> archive servers.  I think there may be a firewall problem somewhere.
> 
> 
>> Of the remaining machines, I've diagnosed 4 with bad serial
>> cables/adapters (having Chris look at those),
> 
> Right.
> 
>> two have BIOSes that don't seem to support serial lines (huxelrebe*)
>> and the pair with the AMD chipset issue (rimava*).
> 
> Wait, I thought we had huxelrebe (line item #11 from the original
> quotation) serial BIOS access bench-tested ?
> 
> AIUI the "AMD chipset issue" you refer to is that rimava*'s BIOS won't
> do serial access.
> 
>> And, there's the ARM chassis, which Paul is working on and I haven't
>> looked at.
> 
> Do you know how this is going on ?  It's all gone quiet since we
> confirmed end of last week that it had passed the bench tests.
> 
>> This should now give us 16 x86 machines out of 24. I believe we will
>> have the four with serial issues by the end of the week. (Paul is out
>> for a medical procedure, Tuesday.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> I don't remember if we've addressed the BIOS issue on the IBM
>> (huxelrebe) servers and, if so, what the resolution was.
> 
> I wasn't aware that there was a problem with those.
> 
> Ian.

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