This is solved - initrd was not loading the correct scsi module for the machine. The gold client used aic7XXX; the imaged machine needed aic79xx. Rebuilt with mkinitrd and all is well.
-Lance On 2/28/05 2:33 PM, "Lance Lierheimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello - > > I have built a lab scenario where I installed a golden client (RHEL3 U4 with > a 2.6.10 kernel) and successfully imaged another machine. Both the golden > client and the lab machine are identical - same motherboard, single SCSI > drive, dual processor, 1 GB RAM, etc. I used network boot to install the > image, and it went off without a hitch. > > I then tried to autoinstall a server with a different architecture with the > same image, the main difference being that this machine has 6 SCSI drives on > a backplane. However, I am only using 4124 MB on the first disk (/dev/sda). > The install works, it will boot into grub, but when the nash script > interpreter hits "mkdevices /dev" in the init script, it hangs and never > fully boots. Could this be a problem with disk partitioning, or might there > be a module needed that isn't being loaded by nash? > > Thanks, > Lance > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
