Okay, that compiled and installed mostly fine (fyi, the docs refuse to go on gentoo 64-bit). When I tried to get an image from my 3.4.3 golden client, it transferred all the data, asked me to hit enter. When it did, it complained no such file on <imagename>/etc/systemimager/boot/ARCH. which is correct, since that file didn't exist. I cheated and "touched" it on the golden client, then it blew up with concatenation errors (because ARCH was empty). So I upgraded my client to 3.5.3. Redid the si_prepareclient. That script got to then end and said "i can't identify your kernel try --XXX". Um, what is that? is that some argument to si_prepareclient? what goes in place of the XXX?On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Hi John: We have used SystemImager 3.3.2 with 2.6 kernel and did not have any issues (I believe back then 3.3.2 includes a 2.4 kernel). 3.5.3 should have better support for x86_64, you can download it at: Cheers, Bernard 3.4.1 is the version. Where it dies (one of them), it looks like, is the make
patched_kernel-stamp bit. The other thing i'm wondering is if it's a 2.6
kernel thing....the kernel it seems to want is 2.4 something. Is there a
problem with 2.6 kernel and systemimager? I hadn't tried to download a
"non-stable" release...is it a different codebase for x86_64 for 3.5.3?
We're using gentoo because it seems more efficient and has the most mature
and stable 64-bit environment of the major distros.
On Monday 29 August 2005 21:59, Bernard Li wrote:
> Hi John:
>
> Which version of SystemImager are you using? The development version 3.5.3
> is known to work with x86_64. This has been tested quite thoroughly under
> Red Hat systems (RHEL3 and RHEL4) - unfortunately I do not have much
> experience with Gentoo nor Debian systems.
>
> For our test cases we do use a x86_64 image server to deploy x86_64 images,
> but I do think it is possible to have a x86 image server to deploy x86_64
> images.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
>
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> I've been trying for two weeks to set up a 64-bit gentoo imager server. I
> ran into tremendous problems compiling the software, so set up a 32-bit
> server, using the same 64-bit hardware. That server compiled everything,
> and I grabbed a 64-bit image. Trying to get that image from another server
> (all of these are identical amd 3000+ servers), I used the "use your own
> kernel" perl script to generate the kernel (as I needed the tg3 nic drivers
> and nvidia sata raid drivers). everything boots fine (using pxe with dhcp
> to boot), the kernel loads and then the rc.S script starts and scrolls
> repeatedly that /tmp is a read-only file system. eventually, I get to the
> busybox prompt. Nothing seems mounted at all. not even /proc. I saw this
> same message on the list archives, but also it seems I won't be able to
> install a 64-bit image FROM a 32-bit image server (using the 32-bit kernel
> running on that server). Is this the case? If so, how can I get
> systemimager to compile under 64-bit gentoo? Tomorrow, I can send the
> errors I'm getting compiling, but I need to know if it's even possible?
>
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