Hi Brian, Could you give me more details about what you've done to get custom kernel working on clients.
Thank you On 1/17/06, Brian Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Brian Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 4. For the new system's kernel I need to go back to the kernel > > source, set CONFIG_ROOT_NFS to "N" and compile it into a fresh .deb > > I'm happy to report that I've finally been successful at getting a > customized kernel to install and boot on the client machine. > Creating two separate kernels - one for the initial FAI boot with a > NFS root and another for post-install client booting without a NFS > root - was the key to this whole thing. However, I did run into one > glitch with step #4 when I did the first post-install boot using the > second kernel. Turned out that the configuration in the fai-kernels > packages sets up the ext3 and ide* drivers as modules rather than > compiling them into the kernel as is necessary when the root > filesystem is on those devices, and I continued to get kernel panics > until I finally realized what was going on and compiled a new client > kernel with the drivers built in. > > I've written up a pretty detailed summary of all this in case > anyone's interested in the gory details. If so, just let me know. > > Many thanks to everyone who helped me figure all this out! :) > > -- Gavin Tran -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDtPezQipgvQyG5e4RAv4WAJ0bpEAHemKWf+yaJ23JwETylJct/wCdHQC6 8HsnvA0JLJedWHkFUFKFj1A= =FSoP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----