At 18:36 +0200 10/14/02, Mark Hedges wrote: >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geert Stappers wrote: >> >I was able to do an installation on a system with a single >> >scsi disk--- it loaded ide-scsi and aic7xxx modules. But then >> >when it rebooted, it could not access the disk to load these >> >modules to access the disk... kernel panic trying to load vfs. >> >(Is that what happened? It did get that far.... Bad disk?) >> >> kernel during FAI install >> is not the same as the one that is installed > >Which is which? The FAI install kernel is on the TFTP server (unpacked) The one that is gonna installed, is in the debian archive ( in a package )
> >> >I tried again using a kernel with scsi support built-in, >> >instead of modules. This time, although `discover` finds >> >the disks, setup_harddisks did not, and Debian::Fai replies >> >that there are no disks, so it selects "DISKLESS". >> >> Had the second attempt information about the disk partitions ( was >> configfile available?) > >No, setup_harddisks could not see the disk and did not write a >config file. The config file I meant contains information about partitions, it should exist when setup_harddisks begins. > >--mark-- Please continue your good habit to reply below the text. Geert St --------- Get my envelope closing key with `gpg --recv-keys 5511798F` or use the equivalent of your favorite Pretty Good Privacy software. The envelope opening key is already here.
