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List:       sisuite-users
Subject:    RE: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)
From:       "Bernard Li" <bli () bcgsc ! ca>
Date:       2005-05-30 20:04:52
Message-ID: 36BEEFA2DF192944BF71E072F7A5F465195D94 () xchange1 ! phage ! bcgsc ! ca
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Okay it seems that you are using SystemConfigurator 2.2.2 already ;-)

BTW, do you have etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf in your image?  If
so, what does it look like?

Cheers,

Bernard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sisuite-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:sisuite-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Bernard Li
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 10:02
> To: Ole Holm Nielsen
> Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from 
> harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)
> 
> Hi Ole:
> 
> I would try using lilo and see if it goes - grub can some times be
> tricky to get going.
> 
> It seems that you are using SystemConfigurator - I would strongly
> recommend you upgrading to 2.2.2 if you haven't already done so.
> 
> Is this x86 OS?
> 
> Just to be sure, after modifying the autoinstallscript.conf, 
> you need to
> re-run mkautoinstallscript to generate a new master script - 
> you did do
> that, right?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bernard 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ole Holm Nielsen [mailto:Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk] 
> > Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 2:50
> > To: Bernard Li
> > Cc: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from 
> > harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)
> > 
> > Hi Bernard,
> > 
> > That's a nice observation, since FC3 and RHEL 4.0 ought to be rather
> > similar !  When SI 3.4.1 installs my RHEL 4.0 client, the master
> > script executes "systemconfigurator" which gives this error message
> > twice:
> >     df: Warning: Cannot read table of mounted filesystems
> > This is caused by /etc/mtab being an empty file at this stage.
> > The "df" command (I believe) is executed by grub-install which
> > is called by systemconfigurator in 
> /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm
> > line 97.
> > 
> > Also, some weird messages are printed by systemconfigurator:
> >     Boot::EFI Line 90: config_file has been set to 
> > /boot/efi/elilo.conf
> >     Boot::EFI Line 98: bootloader_exe has been set to
> >     Boot::EFI Line 102: bootmenu_exe has been set to
> > The only problem is that EFI isn't installed on this client...
> > FYI, systemconfigurator is installed from the RPM version 2.2.2-1.
> > 
> > The client's /boot/grub/ directory contains corrupted
> > files (/boot/grub/stage1 is only 512 bytes...) after the
> > systemconfigurator command has been run.  I think that
> > systemconfigurator has a problem with Grub as used in
> > RHEL 4.0.  I have not been able to get this to work, not
> > even with your suggestion of using devfs in
> > autoinstallscript.conf :-(
> > 
> > > RHEL4 doesn't use devfs, it uses udev, however, using this 
> > method, I was 
> > > able to use SystemImager with Fedora Core 3, which uses udev.
> > >  
> > > Perhaps you can post the error messages associated with 
> > grub-install?
> > 
> > Thanks, Ole
> > 
> 
> 
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