The bug reported about the wrong insmod for 2.4 kernels is fixed in 3.7.5. Regarding the master script I suggest to fix the problem into the initrd_template in your golden client... the approach is much simpler.
Just edit this file: /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/initrd_template/my_modules/INSMOD_COMMANDS And add at the end of the file the command to explicitly load the module of your controller: insmod /lib/modules/<full_path_of_your_driver>.o Then rebuild the boot package running si_prepareclient again and use the kernel+initrd.img that you have in /etc/systemimager/boot (always in your golden client) to install the clients. Remember to add ramdisk_size=80000 to the kernel boot parameters (or a value big enough), as sugested in the output of si_prepareclient. Anyway, if you use UYOK, it should be able to correctly detect the list of the modules running in your golden client and it automatically appends them to INSMOD_COMMANDS. Regards, -Andrea Rene Pineda wrote: > 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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 >> > >> > >> > >> > __________________________________________________ >> > Do You Yahoo!? > >> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam >> > protection around >> > http://mail.yahoo.com >> > >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------- > >> > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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