Bruce,
The error about /etc/fstab during image creation is normal and fine.
FYI it is caused by the rpm installation package post-install scripts
run by OSCAR to build the image, not really from OSCAR itself.
/etc/fstab doesn't exist itself, but is built into the image creation
script and written directly from there.
The bigger problem you have is the message from parted that /dev/hda
doesn't exist. This is probably due to the appropriate kernel driver
for your chipset not being in the (rather old) PXE booting kernel (based
on Linux 2.4.20). For more details about this look at the mailing list
or contact me directly, for where to get a newer kernel.
Also, it would help to get some more details of the hardware you are
using.
Frank
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:44, Bruce Becker wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm having problems imaging my nodes, (RH-9, OSCAR-3.0). During the image
> creation phase of the install, I get errors saying that /etc/fstab cannot
> be opened for reading, because there is "no such file", but the image is
> created succesfully. However, when it comes to transferring the image to
> the node, I get an error just as the autoinstall script is being run -
> parted gives the error that /dev/hda does not exist.
>
> The errors during image creation are :
> awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/fstab' for reading (No
> such file or directory)
> ls: readlink:: No such file or directory
> ls: file: No such file or directory
> ls: expected: No such file or directory
> awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/fstab' for reading (No
> such file or directory)
> awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/fstab' for reading (No
> such file or directory)
> ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether
> /dev/loop0 is mounted.
> warning: can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> awk: cmd. line:2: fatal: cannot open file `/etc/fstab' for reading (No
> such file or directory)
>
> I definitely do have IDE drives, and the partition table I've given
> The partition table is :
> /dev/hda1 24 /boot type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda2 10000 / type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda7 2000 swap
> /dev/hda5 * /data type ext3 (rw)
> nfs_oscar:/home - nfs /home rw
> nfs_oscar:/mnt/raid/nfs - nfs /mnt/raid/nfs rw
> Anything wrong with it ?
>
> Thanks, Bruce
>
> ps, i also get lots of errors after all this :
> Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/oda.pm line 483.
> for oda, switcher, sis, pvm, lam, kernel_picker, hdf5, disable-services,
> c3, base and autoupdate.
>
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