[Pacemaker] how to specify a watchdog driver

[Arnold Krille]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:05:44 +0200
Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb at suse.com> wrote:
> On 2012-09-21T22:24:47, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:
> > > > There are lots of messages that shows when starting corosync,
> > > > may watchdog driver was tested to load into kernel.
> > > Load the module you want to use via initrd, or specify it in the
> > > modprobe.conf file.
> > I would say that initrd is to soon, this might leave a machine
> > running that doesn't start.
> Hm? The watchdog device is only armed once the first process access
> it, not by merely loading the watchdog driver.

Ah, its about software watchdogs. The intel watchdogs in the ipmi are
armed as soon as the machine boots. And getting your fsck killed
because you load ipmi_si to late is not a nice experience...

Have fun,

Arnold
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