I've been struggling for a long time getting this to work on an opteron
and it's not pretty. I don't know if it's the processor or rhel4 or a
combination, but here's what's going on.
I installed rhel4, which configures with lvm by default and I didn't
want it so I deleted and recreated my partition structure before imaging
and I think that's a big part of the problem. For example, at that
point parted lists the partitions out of order! First 1, then 3 and
then 2. When SI creates it's autoconfigurescript.conf it also creates
it in that order, setting the second partition's size to * and the 3rd
one to 4G (this is swap). I manually changed the * to 65G and that
seems to work ok. I consider this a bug in SystemImager!
Now, I'm having problems with labels. The swap partition has a label
of SWAP-sda3, and is mounted as such via fstab. However, there aren't
any references to this label in the autoinstall script and after the
system is imaged and booted, it hangs during startup when it tries to
enable swap. I also noticed after systemconfigurator runs after imaging
there is an error message about not being able to find a device for
/boot, which doesn't surprise me because no labels are created for that
either.
When I ran si_prepareclient, I got an error:
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at
/usr/lib/systemimager/perl/SystemImager/Common.pm line 929, <FH_IN> line 7.
that I think is related to the swap label because when I removed the
label and replaced the reference in fstab to the physical partition,
prepareclient ran without error. however, the image that was then
installed still had errors with swap.
rather than trying to dig through all the code more than I have already
I was just wondering if anyone has had similar issues and what they did
about them?
-mark
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