I'm going to followup this note after dinner with another because I 
think I'm unconvered some bigger issues, but see below for my comments

Andrea Righi wrote:

>Mark Seger wrote:
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>>I've had to patch 3 files, 2 in systemconfigurator and 1 grub-install. 
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>I hope grub developers have fixed it in the last versions...
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I believe they have, but rhel3 uses grub 0.93

>>The thing I've done is to NOT change the image, but rather put the
>>patched files into my overrides.  Furthermore, the files I've patched
>>are from an earlier systemconfigurator - 2.0.6 but they seem to work
>>just fine when I overlay them on top of 2.2.2.  I hope this makes sense...
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>but have you tried with 2.2.2? you still find the same problem?
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yes, and that's the problem.  I don't believe systemconfigurator ever 
addressed this

>>The problem stems from several thing, mainly that grub incorrectly
>>generates a grub.devices file and so cannot be allowed to do so.  This
>>means that in Grub.pm you need to see if you're dealing with cciss (or
>>ida) and if so do not tell it to generate a new file.  There's also a
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>maybe you should consider also "rd" devices, so (cciss,ida,rd).
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don't know.  I've only used cciss and incouded ida when someone else had 
told me about them

>>place where grub gets called with --recheck. and this cannot be allowed
>>either.  In the older versions of systemimager, it didn't populate
>>/etc/mtab which caused systemconfigurator to blow up but that may no
>>longer be necessary.  Anyhow, here's what I did for this one:
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>If I remember well I fixed a similar problem using simple post-install
>script like the following:
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>#!/bin/sh
>cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
>grub-install --recheck /dev/<your_disk_device_here>
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>but, anyway, if the systemconfigurator (the last release) contains
>errors, we should fix it! I think we should ping Sean about this... :-)
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is this something you can do?  certainly someone should.
-mark

>-Andrea
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