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: > > >>I've had to patch 3 files, 2 in systemconfigurator and 1 grub-install. >> >> > >I hope grub developers have fixed it in the last versions... > > 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... >> >> > >but have you tried with 2.2.2? you still find the same problem? > > 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 >> >> > >maybe you should consider also "rd" devices, so (cciss,ida,rd). > > 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: >> >> > >If I remember well I fixed a similar problem using simple post-install >script like the following: > >------------------- >#!/bin/sh >cat /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab >grub-install --recheck /dev/<your_disk_device_here> >------------------- > >but, anyway, if the systemconfigurator (the last release) contains >errors, we should fix it! I think we should ping Sean about this... :-) > > is this something you can do? certainly someone should. -mark >-Andrea > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
