Hi Yu: Thanks for sharing your experience. I never have to really modify the rpmlist and I still have grub used by default. Is your oscar-server using grub or lilo?
Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Yu Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 13:36 > To: Bernard Li > Cc: Fernando Laudares Camargos; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] What is /boot/efi/efi/.... ? > > Thanks, Bernard and Fernando, finally got it worked out. > > Just sharing my experience, hope it could benefit others. > > Most of The "README for OSCAR 4.0 for EL 3 AS" (same as > section 3.5 in installation guide) seems unnessary on i386, > maybe it's only intend for > ia64 which I don't know. > > Step 1: when you copy all RedHat EL-AS-3 rpms to > /tftpboot/rpm, it actually already copy the mysql-server, no > need to do this step. > > Step 2: I modified > /opt/oscar/ocarsample/redhat-3as-i386.rpmlist, removed lilo, > ADDED grub (since lilo just won't work on my install, and > grub is not in there by default!) > > Skipped Step 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 > > Follow Step 7 > > Then everything turns out fine. > > My configuration: > AMD Athlon dual processor, i386 arch, 1GB mem, ide disk, fast > ethernet, using RedHat EL AS 3 update 3. > > Happy new year! > > Regards > Chen > > On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Bernard Li wrote: > > > Hi Chen: > > > > If you want to use grub exclusively, you can remove the > lilo rpm from > > your image: > > > > % chroot /var/lib/systemimager/images/oscarimage > > % rpm -e lilo > > % exit > > > > You will then need to re-image your node. > > > > You can also modify the rpmlist if you want to just create > a new image > > (take out lilo from the list). > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Yu Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:45 > >> To: Bernard Li > >> Cc: Fernando Laudares Camargos; [email protected] > >> Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] What is /boot/efi/efi/.... ? > >> > >> Thanks Bernard, > >> > >> Sorry didn't give enough informations. > >> > >> I am using EL-AS-3, update 3 on 2.4 kernel with dual AMD > processors > >> on > >> i386 arch with 1GB memory. > >> > >> I just tried everything from scratch, I ignored the > elilo.conf part, > >> followed everything else (changed INITRD line accordingly in > >> systemconfig.conf), but it gave another kernel panic, lots > of ext3.o > >> errors, says can't resovle symbls ......, insmod failed ... > >> > >> I am tring using ext2 now, see what happens. > >> > >> Also, is it possible to use grub instead of using lilo, where do I > >> make the change, I read Jay said just remove the lilo rpm from > >> /tftpboot, is that the way, if it fails again, I might try that. > >> > >> Thanks in advance! > >> > >> Chen > >> > >> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Bernard Li wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Chen: > >>> > >>> Which update version of RHEL3 are you using? Update 2 or 3? > >>> > >>> Also, are you running 2.4 kernel or 2.6 kernel? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Bernard > >>> > >>>> -----Original Message----- > >>>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >> Of Yu Chen > >>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 6:03 > >>>> To: Fernando Laudares Camargos > >>>> Cc: [email protected] > >>>> Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] What is /boot/efi/efi/.... ? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, Fernando > >>>> > >>>> That's what I thought after searching the web, I am using > >> i386. But > >>>> if I ignore this, my client will boot to a "kernel panic, > >> pass option > >>>> to init" > >>>> error, so I thought this matters. > >>>> > >>>> I will rerun everything again today, maybe I missed something > >>>> somewhere. > >>>> > >>>> Best > >>>> Chen > >>>> > >>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Fernando Laudares Camargos wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hello Chen, > >>>>> can you tell us which architecture you are working > >>>> on, i386 or ia64? > >>>>> I'm not one hundred percent sure of this, but I think that > >>>> those notes > >>>>> you are talking about (section 3 of README.RH3AS.txt) are > >>>> specific for ia64... > >>>>> Can anyone else on the list confirm this? > >>>>> Regards, > >>>>> Fernando > >>>>> > >>>>> Yu Chen wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hi, everybody, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> When following the instruction of Oscar4.0 on RedHat > >>>> EL-AS-3, for the > >>>>>> "initrd and elilo.conf" section, I couldn't find any > >>>> directory under > >>>>>> /boot called "efi", how do I proceed? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks! > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Chen > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> =========================================== > >>>>>> Yu Chen > >>>>>> Howard Hughes Medical Institute > >>>>>> Chemistry Building, Rm 182 > >>>>>> University of Maryland at Baltimore County 1000 Hilltop Circle > >>>>>> Baltimore, MD 21250 > >>>>>> > >>>>>> phone: (410)455-6347 (primary) > >>>>>> (410)455-2718 (secondary) > >>>>>> fax: (410)455-1174 > >>>>>> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>>> =========================================== > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------- > >>>>>> SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read > >>>> honest & candid > >>>>>> reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > >>>>>> Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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