Hi Andrea:

Your patch works great.  My installation time for those nodes came down
from 7mins -> 2mins :-)

BTW, any chance the following bug can be looked at/fixed?  Otherwise I
think we're really ready for 3.7.4 this time...

http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/ticket/260

P.S. I'm rebuilding the latest SystemImager trunk RPMs and will make
them available here:
http://www.bcgsc.ca/downloads/oscar/systemimager/dev/

Thanks,

Bernard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of Andrea Righi
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 14:39
> To: Bernard Li
> Cc: [email protected]; Mark Seger
> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] what about systems with no floppy drives?
> 
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> could you try with the last trunk? I've added the 
> SKIP_LOCAL_CFG option
> (see the attached patch).
> 
> If SKIP_LOCAL_CFG=y is specified in the kernel boot parameters
> (syslinux.cfg) the check to find the local.cfg in a floppy will be
> skipped.
> 
> If I remember well there was also a problem with systemconfigurator,
> but maybe this simple patch is enough to save some 
> installation time...
> 
> Cheers,
> -Andrea
> 
> Index: initrd_source/skel/etc/init.d/functions
> ===================================================================
> --- initrd_source/skel/etc/init.d/functions   (revision 3746)
> +++ initrd_source/skel/etc/init.d/functions   (revision 3747)
> @@ -849,6 +849,11 @@
>      logmsg
>      logmsg read_local_cfg
>  
> +    if [ "x$SKIP_LOCAL_CFG" = "xy" ]; then
> +        logmsg "skipping local.cfg: option SKIP_LOCAL_CFG=y 
> has been specified"
> +        return
> +    fi
> +
>      #
>      # BEGIN try hard drive
>      #
> 
> Bernard Li wrote:
> > Hey Mark:
> > 
> > Did you ever figure out this issue?  I think I'm hitting it on these
> > older Appro Opteron servers.  They have no floppies but SystemImager
> > essentially stalls for ~4-5 minutes doing the "I/O error, 
> dev fd0" loop.
> > 
> > This was tested with the latest trunk, so I know it's still 
> not "fixed"
> > :-)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Bernard 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> >> Behalf Of Mark Seger
> >> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 9:39
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: [Sisuite-devel] what about systems with no floppy drives?
> >>
> >> There's a section near the beginning of the installation that says 
> >> "checking for floppy diskette."  I'm getting an I/O error, 
> dev fdo, 
> >> sector 0 about ever 10 seconds and I'm sure it's because 
> this system 
> >> doesn't have a floppy.  If they're just warnings, and I think 
> >> they are, 
> >> should there be a message to ignore the like the message 
> that says to 
> >> ignore "wrong magic" errors?  However, the real issues if 
> there are 
> >> almost 2 dozen of these and they significantly slow down the 
> >> installation.
> >>
> >> Any way to reduce or maybe even eliminate the checks, or 
> isn't this 
> >> under SI control?
> >>
> >> -mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
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