On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:20, Bernard Li wrote: > Since SystemConfigurator is responsible for setting up grub, I would say > yes, upgrade SystemConfigurator. > > Other folks may have encountered the same thing, there may be some > manual steps you can perform to get around the problem. Try digging > through the archives. > > I'm still a bit troubled that SystemImager is seeing your HD as /dev/hda > as opposed to /dev/sda, this will throw SystemConfigurator off. > > To find out what module the SATA adapter uses, boot Linux into rescue > mode, then provide the output of "lsmod". I cheat and don't use system configurator. i'm running gentoo, so can't. wrote my own script which I call as part of the chroot
> > Cheers, > > Bernard > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ali > Norcott > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA drives > > > > I'm running systemconfigurator 2.0.10-1 on both machines. Both > machines are running Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger with Linux version > 2.6.12-8-386 although I would ideally like to use one of our debian > servers as the systemimager server. At the moment I'm just testing the > software and when I ran into problems with SystemImager 3.4.0 it was > suggested I upgrade to a new version which is why I'm now using an > Ubuntu machine as the server. > > > > I'm not sure what module the SATA adapter users. How would I > find this out? > > > > Should I upgrade the systemconfigurator? > > > > Let me know if you need more information. Many thanks for your > help. > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard > Li > Sent: 11 January 2006 19:32 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA drives > > > > What's the version of SystemConfigurator you're using? You > still haven't told me what Linux distribution you are imaging. > > > > It would help also if you tell us what module your SATA adapter > uses. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ali > Norcott > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 11:23 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA > drives > > Hi Bernard, > > > > I'm running version 3.5.3-1 on both client and server > and the kernel is 2.6. > > > > Regards, > > Ali > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard > Li > Sent: 11 January 2006 18:18 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA > drives > > > > Please provide: > > > > SystemImager version > > Linux distribution version > > > > Chances are, SystemImager kernel (2.4 based I'm > guessing) recognizes your HD as /dev/hda, but your actual OS detects it > as /dev/sda. This is not uncommon with SATA devices. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ali > Norcott > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 9:25 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on > SATA drives > > Hi, > > > > I'm installing onto a Precision 380 with 1x SATA > HDD. I boot from CD and the image downloads from my server. I notice > some messages at the start about partitioning /dev/hda1 etc which I > wouldn't expect to see as my machine is a SATA drive so I'd expect > /dev/sda. The files install but when the install completes I am unable > to boot the machine. If I boot from a grub floppy (to try to install > grub) and do root (hd0,0) I get a message saying the partition doesn't > exist. I've checked and amended the /etc/fstab entries as per a solution > in a previous posting so my entries are: > > > > Proc > > /dev/sda3 - / > > /dev/sda2 - /boot > > /dev/sda1 - none (swap) > > > > I've rerun the si_prepareclient and si_getimage > but to no avail. If I boot from a floppy with fdisk on it there are no > partitions showing. Some of the messages just before I get the "I have > been done..." message are as follows: > > > > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may > take a long time. > > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted > filesystems > > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted > filesystems > > Could not find device for /boot. Nor found or > not a block device. > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation or > string at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 160 > > > > Does anyone know what I need to do to get this > working? > > > > Any help would be very much appreciated. I feel > I'm very close to getting this working. > > > > Regards, > > Ali -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
