Hi - How do I manually load the modules, then run the foo.master script by hand?
I'm having the same issues.... Please,kindly detail as much as
possilbe as I'm a new baby to SystemImager.
Thanks.
I found a workaround for my problem. Apparently, the
standard kernel boot disk made with si_mkautoinstallcd
does not attempt to load the megaraid_mm.ko and
megaraid_mbox.ko kernel modules (they must be loaded
in that order in order for the RAID controller to
work). Because of this, the RAID array will not
recognize, and the install script crashes because it
can't find a drive to partition. I can load the
modules manually, then manually run the foo.master
script, and the computer will image. Using this
workaround got my system up and running. I tried to
add a line to load the modules in my foo.master
script, but there is a hyphen in the path that the
shell keeps converting to an underscore, causing the
module to not be found at the path I specify.
Perhaps this should be filed as a bug?
Also, one other bug I noticed is that when using a
custom kernel, like Red Hat's, the initial ramdisk
size is way too small -- I think only 8MB. The only I
was able to get a standard Red Hat 3 kernel to work
with the systemimager boot cd is by passing the kernel
parameter "ramdisk=40960" to make the ramdisk big
enough to hold everything it needs to.
And again, as I stated below, you can't load modules
at all if you boot with the standard Red Hat 3 kernel,
due to the insmod version being wrong. I would
hypothesize that this applies to all 2.4 kernels, but
I don't have the resources to test this hypothesis.
Could it be that, when the boot disk is created by the
utility, that the insmod, modprobe, etc files are
being copied from the 2.6 kernel you use for the
standard image instead of from the files in the image
(or wherever you get your custom kernel from)?
I hope these bug reports help to make some great
software even better!
Thanks,
Tim
--- "Timothy J. Wielgos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
By the way, I'm running SystemImager 3.6.3-1:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa systemimager*
systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.6.3-1
systemimager-common-3.6.3-1
systemimager-server-3.6.3-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#
--- "Timothy J. Wielgos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all--
>
> I'm at my wits end with this. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm trying to boot my client, a Dell 2850, with a
> boot
> CD I've created to download an image from my SI
> server, but the standard boot ISO doesn't
recognize
> my
> RAID controller, which means it won't see any
> drives.
> So I created a boot ISO with the kernel in the
> image,
> and the megaraid.o module is present on that
image,
> but it errors out saying "Kernel requires old
> insmod,
> but couldn't run insmod.old: No such file or
> directory". So I copied the version of insmod on
> the
> golden client into the initrd.img file, but when
> that
> boots, it can't find insmod at all. I can see it
in
> the file system, but it refuses to run, saying the
> shell can't find it, even though other files
located
> in the /sbin directory will run just fine.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions with this? Other
> people I'm sure have got this to work with their
> Dell
> 2850's.
>
> By the way, my image server is running Fedora Core
5
> with kernel 2.6.?? and the image is running Red
Hat
> AS
> 3 update 4, with kernel 2.4.??.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim
>
>
>
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