Solved my problem thanks to a colleague who found this some time ago. Turns out you can't run under the grub loader! I changed to lilo on the golden client and the installation was very smooth.
-mark


Mark Seger wrote:

When I run SystemImager on by brand new DL360s, it fails after the images are downloaded. Specifically, when it runs 'grub-install' it generates the following;

Probing devices to guess BIOS drives.  This may take a long time.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hda: driver not present
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
Could not find device for /boot: No found or not a block device

shortly thereafter the function find_grub_root gets called in Grub.pm which ultimately calls 'devfs_lookup' in Devfs.pm, looking for devices that match /ide|scsi|md/ in the 'smells_like_devfs' routine. To try and see why, I printed out the contents of /proc/partitions and found the devices in it had names that would never pass this test, specifically:

cciss/disc0/dics
cciss/disc0/part1
cciss/disc0/part2
cciss/disc1/disc
cciss/disc1/part1

does anyone have a clue what is going on here and what (if any) workarounds there might be to get past this? Since the partitions structure are getting named by the 'master' SI script which is being built by mkautoinstallscript, is this the actual root of the problem?

-mark





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