Hi All,
I recently took delivery of three identical P3 machines to be used as
client workstations in student accommodation belonging to my college. I am
interested in saving time and keeping the images up to date by deployed
cloned images using systemimager, but have had a few problems using this
method.
First I prepared the golden client, ran the prepareclient utility, and
pulled the image via getimage onto the image server (my own personal ubuntu
machine). All of these steps went perfectly.
I made an auto install diskette using mkautoinstalldiskette and added a
tweaked \local.cfg to this. My DHCP server is not on the same machine as the
image server and I needed to set the address of the image server in the
local.cfg file. I then took this diskette and booted the first client node
to be imaged with the cd and downloaded the image onto this machine. All the
files seemed to copy across perfectly well.
Upon completion and trying to restart and boot the new image from the hard
disk, I discovered that the grub bootloader was seemingly not present. In
order to try to fix this, I booted with a Knoppix CD, mounted the filesystem
as read/write, then chrooted into the captive filesystem on /mnt/hda1 and
tried to do a grub-install on /dev/hda (the single hard disk).
This seemed to work, and rebooting from the hard disk brought up a grub menu
etc. When the ubuntu image started to load I got a kernel panic and some
messages like;
init: failed to find /dev/null: no such file
init: failed to open /dev/console
I had a look around on the systemimager mailing list archives and it looks
like this is a problem with Ubuntu as this uses udev and seems to require
some extra configuration of the auto install scripts. I am using
systemimager 3.2.3-3 for the client and server portions.
I eventually got the client image to boot by adding 'devfs=mount' to the
kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst at boot time and then editing this in
permanently once the machine had booted.
Has anyone else had similar problems using Systemimager? - I'm sure there's
a better way of doing this than manually booting each client node using
Knoppix and installing grub properly. Perhaps I'm being really stupid, and
have missed out some configuration steps, and so please let me know how you
yourselves have got this working!
Thanks,
Paul S.
Paul Syred
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