Additional Installation Procedures - Nvidia 900-9X4B0-0012-0T1 User Manual

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:
Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.4-1.0.0.0.IBMM2150110033.logs
Uninstalling MLNX_OFED
Use the script /usr/sbin/ofed_uninstall.sh to uninstall the MLNX_OFED package. The script is part of
the ofed-scripts RPM.

Additional Installation Procedures

Installing MLNX_OFED Using YUM
This type of installation is applicable to RedHat/OL and Fedora operating systems.
• 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
• The kernel modules are installed under
• /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates on SLES and Fedora
Distributions
• /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/mlnx-ofa_kernel on RHEL and
other RedHat like Distributions
• /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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