Ok, as the docs don't tell much about the
setpart
PROM monitor command, I'll give some details about it on Origin 200s:
setpart
options:
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>> setpart -h
setpart: Setup/teardown partitions.
options:
-v: Verbose
-h: Print out help about cmds
-s: Setup partitions
-c: Clear all partitions
-l: List all partitions
Listing all partitions on an unpartitioned Origin 200 shows all modules as part of a partition 0:
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>> setpart -l
************ List of partitions ************
Partition: 0
Module 1
Module 2
************ End list of partitions ************
According to the docs, "
A partition ID of 0 indicates an unpartitioned system.
" (
IRIX Admin - System Configuration and Operation
, page 130 (93)), though this ID can be used by
setpart
and I didn't saw a difference between module 1 in partition 0 (module 2 in partition 1) or module 1 in partition 1 (module 2 on partition 2). But using a partition ID of 0 might be an error, so I used IDs 1 and 2.
Partitioning can be started by using
setpart
or
setpart -s
:
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>> setpart
**********************************************************
* Enter partition ids followed by the module ids in that *
* partition. Type in a 'q' at the module prompt if you *
* are done with all modules in a partition. Type in a *
* 'q' at the partition prompt if you're done with all *
* partitions. *
**********************************************************
Enter partition id: 1
Enter module id: 1
Enter module id: q
Enter partition id: 2
Enter module id: 2
Enter module id: q
Enter partition id: q
Partition: 1
Module 1
Partition: 2
Module 2
Do you wish to proceed [y] ? y
Reset to partition system.
>> reset
Resetting the system...
After a reset of the machine the current partition comes up with the hardware of the other partition removed:
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[...]
**** System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****
CONFIG:
No. of NODEs enabled = 1
No. of NODEs disabled = 0
No. of CPUs enabled = 2
No. of CPUs disabled = 0
Mem enabled = 2048 MB
Mem disabled = 0 MB
No. of RTRs enabled = 0
No. of RTRs disabled = 0
DIAG RESULTS:
ALL DIAGS PASSED.
**** End System Configuration and Diagnostics Summary ****
System Maintenance Menu
1) Start System
2) Install System Software
3) Run Diagnostics
4) Recover System
5) Enter Command Monitor
Option? 5
Command Monitor. Type "exit" to return to the menu.
>> setpart -l
************ List of partitions ************
Partition: 1
Module 1
Partition: 2
Module 2
************ End list of partitions ************
I didn't find a way to access the console of the second partition though, I tried both the serial ports and the MSC port of the second module to no avail.
When running IRIX 6.5.5 (as the manpage of
mkpart
in 6.5.30 only speaks of Origin 3000s, but actually gave similar results, I tried an older version of IRIX to see if it's different there) on the first partition and using
mkpart
it seems to detect that the machine is partitioned although it does not see the other partition:
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origin-200-5 1# mkpart
Partition id = 1
origin-200-5 2# mkpart -l
partition: 1 = module: 1
The hardware is limited to the hardware available in module 1.
Unpartitioning the machine in the PROM monitor with
setpart -c
and trying to partition it under IRIX with
mkpart
does not really work:
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origin-200-5 1# /usr/sbin/mkpd
origin-200-5 3# mkpart -l
partition: 0 = module: 1 2
origin-200-5 4# mkpart -F -p 1 -m 1 -p 2 -m 2
WARNING: Use of Force Option overrides ALL sanity checks.
Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y
Cannot access /hw/module/*/slot/r*/*router/mon: No such file or directory
Want to reboot now? [y/n]: n
Exiting the command now.
origin-200-5 5# mkpart -l
partition: 0 = module: 1 2
origin-200-5 6# mkpart
Partition id = 0
origin-200-5 7# mkpart -p 1 -m 1 -p 2 -m 2
Cannot access /hw/module/*/slot/r*/*router/mon: No such file or directory
Cannot access /hw/module/*/slot/r*/*router/mon: No such file or directory
Failed to obtain proper router map info from Partition 0.
Please do a manual check of craylink connectivity and use -F
option to override sanity check.
So all in all, hardware partitioning might not work on an Origin 200, or at least not as expected. But maybe I'm doing something wrong. If somebody has some insight, please let me know.
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