Time to ramble a bit...

I've been having major problems trying to get an installation to work on 
an operton with 3 sda disks using LVM, and thanks to Andrea it looks 
like sdb went bad!  I was able to edit my autoinstallscript to change 
all occurances of sdb to sdc and remove all the sdc's and so I can now 
build/format the partitions and lay down an image.  My first 
point/question is it would sure be nice if there were more checking for 
device integrity in the autoinstall script.  This stuff is so solid (and 
I mean that as a compliment), whenever something goes wrong I assume 
it's me.  So when I saw a lot of sdb errors I figured I must have 
screwed up retrieving the image and/or building the autoinstall script.  
A couple of checks might have save me and andrea a lot of time tracking 
this down.

So, now I'm able to image the system, but systemconfigurator now craps 
out with errors on sdb and I'm guessing there must be a file somewhere 
that says to do something with that disk.  I looked at /etc/mtab and 
/proc/partitions and there are no references to sdb.  Is there somewhere 
else I should look?  Might I screwed up my autoinstall script - I don't 
think so.  Is there an easy way to just edit my autoinstallscript.conf 
file to change sdb to sdc - this uses LVM and things are a little more 
complicated.  Clearly this is a non-standard situation and it's probably 
not critical I solve it as I can just swap some drives when I get into 
the office on monday, but it would be nice to be able to confirm I can 
to an end-to-end installation with 3.7.4 on an opteron with scsi disks.

As an aside, I tried to get the remote console monitoring stuff working 
and it didn't work.  Since there's no documentation on any of this I 
couldn't verify I was doing it correctly.  8-(  I also discovered the 
console log in /tmp, but it doesn't contain all the error messages.  Is 
there not an easy way to capture them?  I'm also a little puzzled about 
what gets logged an how since I see the rsycn request, the 
run_post_install, but nothing from systemconfigurator - specifically the 
error messages.

-mark






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