Hi OSCAR users I've discovered Brian Finley's "mkbootpackage" script at http://systemimager.sourceforge.net/pub/unofficial/Use_Any_Kernel_by_Brian_Finley/ and was wondering if anyone else has used it before. I've had a very frustrating time trying to get together a kernel and ramdisk that will boot my nodes - most of the standard kernels do not include the driver for my network card (the sundance driver). The kernel that I built, with the netcard driver builtin seems to be missing something else, because the autoinstall script dies when it tries to partition the node hard drive (/dev/hda = no such file or directory).
I thought mkbootpackage might be able to help me out, since I have tried to create ramdisk that loads the module for my NIC on the fly, but I kept getting unresolved symbols and mkbootpackage would probably do it properly. I've downloaded it and tried to run it, but rsync is taking a very long time (over an hour) to run. Is this normal ? The details are : My server = dual pentium III running linux RH9, kernel 2.4.20-8smp what I did = ./mkbootpackage.sh --verbose --kernel /home/Sadmin/kernel_configs/linux-2.4.20/arch/i386/boot/bzImage --new-flavor gentoo --modules sundance --fs cramfs --modules-dir /lib/modules/2.4.20/ output = Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./mkbootpackage.sh line 96. >>> Kernel release: >>> Using modules from: /lib/modules/2.4.20/ >>> Using architecture: i386 >>> Base temporary dir: /tmp/si13060 >>> gunzip /tmp/si13060/old_initrd.gz >>> Old initrd mount point: /tmp/si13060/old_initrd_dir >>> mount /tmp/si13060/old_initrd /tmp/si13060/old_initrd_dir -o loop >>> New initrd temporary dir: /tmp/si13060/staging_dir >>> rsync -aHS --exclude=lost+found / --numeric-ids /tmp/si13060/old_initrd_dir/ /tmp/si13060/staging_dir / readlink proc/2/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/3/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/4/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/5/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/6/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/7/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/9/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/11/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/635/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/636/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/637/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/736/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1371/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1372/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1373/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1374/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1375/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1376/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1377/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1378/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1379/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/1380/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/2185/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/2186/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/2187/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/2188/exe: No such file or directory readlink proc/13063/exe: No such file or directory readlink tmp/ccKRsK23.s: No such file or directory any advice ? Thanks, Bruce -- Bruce Becker UCT-CERN Research Center - University of Cape Town Room 405, R.W. James Building, University Avenue North Private Bag RONDEBOSCH 7700 tel :(w) +27 21 650 3356 | (m) +27 82 537 9425 | (f) +27 21 650 3342 WEB :http://hep.phy.uct.ac.za/~becker | AIM : brucellino ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
