Return
Code
0
The Installation ended successfully
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The installation failed
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No firmware was found for the adapter device
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Invalid parameter
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Not enough free space
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Not applicable to this system configuration. This can occur when the required hardware is not
present on the system
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Prerequisites are not met. For example, missing the required software installed or the
hardware is not configured correctly
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Failed to start the mst driver
Software
Firmware
Installation Logging
While installing MLNX_OFED, the install log for each selected package will be saved in a separate log
file.
The path to the directory containing the log files will be displayed after running the installation
script in the following format:
Example:
Meaning
•
Most of MLNX_OFED packages are installed under the "/usr" directory
except for the following packages which are installed under the "/
opt" directory:
•
fca and ibutils
•
iproute2 (rdma tool) - installed under /opt/Mellanox/iproute2/
sbin/rdma
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The kernel modules are installed under
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/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates on SLES and Fedora
Distributions
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/lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/mlnx-ofa_kernel on RHEL and
other RedHat like Distributions
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/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates/dkms/ on Ubuntu
•
The firmware of existing network adapter devices will be updated if
the following two conditions are fulfilled:
•
The installation script is run in default mode; that is, without
the option '--without- fw-update'
•
The firmware version of the adapter device is older than the
firmware version included with the OFED ISO image
Note: If an adapter's Flash was originally programmed with an
Expansion ROM image, the automatic firmware update will also
burn an Expansion ROM image.
•
In case your machine has an unsupported network adapter device, no
firmware update will occur and the error message below will be
printed.
"The firmware for this device is not distributed inside NVIDIA driver:
0000:01:00.0 (PSID: IBM2150110033)
To obtain firmware for this device, please contact your HW vendor."
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