Nvidia MCX651105A-EDAT User Manual page 68

• Installs the MLNX_OFED_LINUX binary RPMs (if they are available for the current kernel)
• Identifies the currently installed InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapters and automatically upgrades the firmware
Note: To perform a firmware upgrade using customized firmware binaries, a path can be provided to the folder that contains the firmware
binary files, by running --fw-image-dir. Using this option, the firmware version embedded in the MLNX_OFED package will be ignored.
Example:
./mlnxofedinstall --fw-image-dir /tmp/my_fw_bin_files
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If the driver detects unsupported cards on the system, it will abort the installation procedure. To avoid this, make sure to add
unsupported-devices-check
Usage
./mnt/mlnxofedinstall [OPTIONS]
The installation script removes all previously installed OFED packages and re-installs from scratch. You will be prompted to acknowledge the
deletion of the old packages.
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Pre-existing configuration files will be saved with the extension ".conf.rpmsave".
• If you need to install OFED on an entire (homogeneous) cluster, a common strategy is to mount the ISO image on one of the cluster nodes and
then copy it to a shared file system such as NFS. To install on all the cluster nodes, use cluster-aware tools (suchaspdsh).
• If your kernel version does not match with any of the offered pre-built RPMs, you can add your kernel version by using the
"mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh" script located inside the MLNX_OFED package.
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On Redhat and SLES distributions with errata kernel installed there is no need to use the mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh script. The
regular installation can be performed and weak-updates mechanism will create symbolic links to the MLNX_OFED kernel modules.
flag during installation.
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