Thanks for all of the help everyone, I'm pretty sure that my problem is
the one you ran into Bruce and I'm working my way through the old email
you pointed me toward.
I tried out your tool Brian and got an error pretty quickly, here
is the output in verbose mode:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
./mkbootpackage line 96.
>>> Kernel release:
>>> Using modules from: /lib/modules/2.4.20-6
>>> Using architecture: i386
>>> Base temporary dir: /tmp/si
>>> gunzip /tmp/si/old_initrd.gz
>>> Old initrd mount point: /tmp/si/old_initrd_dir
>>> mount /tmp/si/old_initrd /tmp/si/old_initrd_dir -o loop
>>> New initrd temporary dir: /tmp/si/staging_dir
>>> rsync -aHS --exclude=lost+found/ --numeric-ids /tmp/si/old_initrd_dir/
/tmp/si/staging_dir/
>>> umount /tmp/si/old_initrd_dir
>>> Removing old modules from: /tmp/si/staging_dir/my_modules
Couldn't open /tmp/si/staging_dir/my_modules /INSMOD_COMMANDS for reading.
at ./mkbootpackage line 388.
The funny thing is that ISMODE_COMMANDS seems to be exactly where your
looking for it (except for that space in the location) and I couldn't see
any reason that space would have been inserted anywhere just looking at it
breifly.
Once more thanks everyone, I'll be working on it for a while but now
that I've got a direction I think I'm making progress.
Anthony Supinski
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Brian Elliott Finley wrote:
> If you think this is your issue, then you may want to try the following
> tool (still considered alpha):
>
> http://download.systemimager.org/pub/unofficial/Use_Any_Kernel_by_Brian_Finley/00README
>
> -Brian
>
>
> Thus spake Bruce Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Hi Anthony.
> >
> > Sorta glad to hear someone else has the same problem as I did. Brian
> > Elliot was probably right that you have hardware that is newer than the
> > drivers in the kernel. We had a similar problem, but in our particular
> > case, the stock kernel provided by sis did not have the driver for our
> > hard drives compiled into it. If you like, I can send you our kernel
> > config file and you can see what the differences are between it and yours.
> >
> > We had exactly the same error as you are experiencing and got around it by
> > compiling a custom kernel, although getting that to play nicely with sis
> > was another story altogether. If you need advice on how to compile a
> > custom kernel and ensure that the modules are loaded by systeminstaller,
> > consult the posts to the list from about August-September last year, by
> > Frank Crawford, and again during January and early Feb this year by myself
> > and Frank.
> >
> > it's actually a simple problem to solve, although we spent about a month
> > on it !
> >
> > good luck
> > Bruce
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Anthony Supinski wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I've got a new install of OSCAR 3.0 on a RedHat 9 box for my
> > > server and everything has gone perfectly by the installation guide until
> > > it was time to load the client image on the clients.
> > > I have all of the MAC addresses autodectected and assigned to
> > > clients using the provided RedHat 9 rpm list and the sample ide partition
> > > file (originally I was using my own but I thought I might be making a
> > > simple mistake so I thought I'd try the sample). Anyway the clients all
> > > have basic internal ide HDs that seem to be detected in the network
> > > install before it fails but here is what I get around the time of failure:
> > >
> > > get_arch
> > > Partitioning /dev/hda...
> > > Old Partition table for /dev/hda:
> > > Error:Could not stat device /dev/hda - No such file or directory
> > > Parted -s -- /dev/hda mklabel msdos|| shellout
> > > Error:Could not stat device /dev/hda - No such file or directory
> > >
> > > write_variables
> > > followed by the printed message saying the installation failed and giving
> > > instructions as to how to scroll. (this is typed so I am sorry for any
> > > minor discrepencies).
> > >
> > > I've gone so far as to format the computer and then try the image
> > > instalation with the same format instructions but with no better results
> > > and am currently just trying from a clean HD. I'm working on this as a
> > > project for college and I'm hoping that I'm just missing somthing simple.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Anthony Supinski
> > >
> > >
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