Hi Mitch:
 
So how did you get 3.7.4?  Did you use one of our pre-built RPMs or did you 
build from source?  If you used our RPMs which revision was it?
 
Have you tried to use network boot as opposed to using the boot CD?
 
Cheers,
 
Bernard

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mitch Sako
Sent: Thu 10/08/2006 19:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] 3.7.3 32-bit RH3 CD fails to boot



I'm still struggling with this and the 3.7.4 rc code doesn't seem to help much. 
 A few things that might or might not be significant:

This is RH 3, Update3 and Update8 both the same behavior

I'm using a monolithic (no modules) 2.6.7-mjb2 kernel from kernel.org with Ingo 
Molnar's 4G/4G split patches (the reason for the old 2.6 kernel).  This allows 
3.9GB virtual memory on a 32-bit machine, much like RH hugemem for 32-bit.

I'm using XFS for the / filesystem but /boot is ext-2, so it's been hand-built 
from that aspect.  This works fine with 64-bit machines.

The SI server is 64-bit, these clients are 32-bit.

It appears as though the "UDF-fs: No Partitions Found (1)" message may not be 
what's wrong.  It's what happens right after this message and whatever is being 
scanned by the kernel.  It seems to be mounting up the boot CD OK, it begins to 
fail as the kernel is bringing NET devices online (remember, it's monolithic, 
no modules).  Obviously, this UYOK runs fine on the golden image client.  
Additionally, an almost identical scenario works fine on 64-bit Opteron H/W.

Mitch

Mitch Sako wrote:
> Here is the output of mkautoinstallcd:
>
> /etc/systemimager# si_mkautoinstallcd --append "ramdisk_size=100000 
> IMAGENAME=x335-2.6.7 IMAGESERVER=158.140.11.91" --arch i386 --out-file 
> x335.iso
> Here is a list of available flavors:
>
>   standard
>   x335-2.6.7
>
> Which flavor would you like to use? [standard]: x335-2.6.7
>
> Creating temporary working directory...
> Making the ISO image now
> INFO:   UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
>         Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
>         use -input-charset to override.
> mkisofs 2.01 (x86_64-suse-linux)
> Scanning .
> Scanning ./isolinux
> Writing:   Initial Padblock                        Start Block 0
> Done with: Initial Padblock                        Block(s)    16
> Writing:   Primary Volume Descriptor               Start Block 16
> Done with: Primary Volume Descriptor               Block(s)    1
> Writing:   Eltorito Volume Descriptor              Start Block 17
> Size of boot image is 4 sectors -> No emulation
> Done with: Eltorito Volume Descriptor              Block(s)    1
> Writing:   Joliet Volume Descriptor                Start Block 18
> Done with: Joliet Volume Descriptor                Block(s)    1
> Writing:   End Volume Descriptor                   Start Block 19
> Done with: End Volume Descriptor                   Block(s)    1
> Writing:   Version block                           Start Block 20
> Done with: Version block                           Block(s)    1
> Writing:   Path table                              Start Block 21
> Done with: Path table                              Block(s)    4
> Writing:   Joliet path table                       Start Block 25
> Done with: Joliet path table                       Block(s)    4
> Writing:   Directory tree                          Start Block 29
> Done with: Directory tree                          Block(s)    2
> Writing:   Joliet directory tree                   Start Block 31
> Done with: Joliet directory tree                   Block(s)    2
> Writing:   Directory tree cleanup                  Start Block 33
> Done with: Directory tree cleanup                  Block(s)    0
> Writing:   Extension record                        Start Block 33
> Done with: Extension record                        Block(s)    1
> Writing:   The File(s)                             Start Block 34
> Total translation table size: 3827
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 1124
> Total directory bytes: 2048
> Path table size(bytes): 26
> Done with: The File(s)                             Block(s)    2754
> Writing:   Ending Padblock                         Start Block 2788
> Done with: Ending Padblock                         Block(s)    150
> Max brk space used 0
> 2938 extents written (5 MB)
> Removing temporary directory point...
> Done!
>
> You can now burn your ISO image to a CDROM and boot your auto-install
> clients from it!
>
>
>
> Bernard Li wrote:
>
>>Hi Mitch:
>>
>>It appears the problem has to do with your ISO/CD...
>>
>>Assuming you did run si_prepareclient, can you post the log of that and
>>the output when you run si_mkautoinstallcd?
>>
>>BTW, I think 3.7.3 currently has issues with imaging 2.4 kernel golden
>>images (am I right Andrea?) so you might want to wait for 3.7.4 is
>>released (or try one of our snapshots...)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Bernard


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