On Sunday 19 November 2006 06:14, Michael Edwards wrote:
> Based on this site: http://wiki.sisuite.org/RHEL4_on_Dell_GX620 you might
> want to try RHEL 4.2 instead of 4.0.  Hopefully this information is helpful,
> even though its a more invasive use of SIS than OSCAR generally requires.

Hmmm, that page shows a quite complicated approach...

> You can also specify that SIS should use the drivers listed on that page,
> but I am not very familiar with how to do that.  I'll have to read a bit
> more about hardware.1st and SIS before I make any suggestions, unless Erich
> or someone else wants to pipe in.

As the install step passed, the trouble sems to be that the sc-initrd (used
for booting and generated by systemconfigurator) doesn't contain the harddisk
driver. From the page mentioned by Michael it looks like that sould be the
ata_piix module (and libata).

The easy workaround for that is:

- find the PCI ID for your SATA device:
lspci | grep -i SATA
remember the first string in the format
[[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]]

- find the PCI vendor and device ID corresponding to that:
lspci -n
remember the [<vendor>]:[<device>] string

- create in the deployment image located in /var/lib/systemimager/images/... a
  file in etc/systemconfig/hardware.lst containing a line like

<vendor> <device> scsi ata_piix

It leads after deployment to the generation of an /etc/modprobe.conf file
containing
alias scsi_hostalias ata_piix

The general problem is that the detection system used in systemimager
recognizes the ata_piix controller as an IDE controller and that doesn't lead
to the above mentione alias line.

Regards,
Erich


> > On 11/18/06, *Shaohui Yang* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,all:
> >
> >
> >
> >    Since the oscar 5 is released on the 12th , I try to deploy it in my
> > lab. My lab have 3 Dell GX620 PC ( P4 2.8G Processor, 80G Sata Disk,2GB
> > memory).
> >
> >    Firstly I installed the Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4.0 for X86_64 on
> > one GX620, and then install the oscar 5 on the machine to as the master
> > node. Great,  the oscar 5 installation is very smarter, and excellent
> > improvement than the old oscar 4.2. it is very nice.
> >
> >    But after I define the client and use a boot cd to boot up and install
> > redhat EL AS 4 for X86_64 client on a GX620, I encountered some fatal issue.
> > The installation procedure seem ok but when I try to boot the client, the
> > system is stopped at
> >
> >    *Loading ext3.ko module*
> >
> > *   Creating root device*
> >
> > *   Mounting root filesystem*
> >
> > *   Mount: error 6 mounting*
> >
> > *   Mount: error 2 mounting none*
> >
> > *   Switching to new root*
> >
> > *   Switchroot: mount failed: 22*
> >
> > *   Umount /initrd/dev failed: 2*
> >
> > *   Kernel panic � not syncing: attempt to kill init !*
> >
> > * *   I simply followed the install instruction, and selected scsi.disk to
> > create the image. I tried to create the boot cd with/without UYOK, They got
> > the same result. Anyone can give me a hint about what happen and how can I
> > resolve it? . I guess the issue maybe related to the SATA disk, anyone who
> > test the oscar 5 client on SATA disk?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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