moving to sisuite-devel, since this sounds like a systemconfigurator problem. (please remove systemimager-devel from the cc list when replying).
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:51:50PM +0100, Ian Braithwaite wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew Bennett wrote: > > > all went well, once I'd re-enabled rsyncd on the image-server, the new > > clients were able to PXE boot, and rsync all the files fine. it all > > works very smoothly. > > > > When it got to "Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a > > long time", the df command errored out, but it carried on, seemed to be > > ok, and then it said "I've been ready for x seconds. Please reboot" etc > > or something similar. > > > > When I rebooted, it came up with just a flashing cursor. I guess it is > > some kind of issue with the boot sector on hda not written properly to > > the disk? > > > I've got exactly the same problem, trying to bring up RedHat 7.3, > with systemimager 3.0.0-1, systemconfigurator 2.0.5-1. > > Grub fails to install, so the machine won't boot. > I can boot using the CDROM as a rescue disk, and then run > systemconfigurator manually. This fixes the boot problem. > > I've used the --debug --verbose flags, both when installing and running > manually. When installing, I see: > > --- > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > end_request: I_O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv > hdc: driver not present > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems > : Not found or not a block device. > --- > > and when running manually: > > --- > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > end_request: I_O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > Installation finished. No error reported. > --- > > > Does anyone have a fix for the install script, to solve this > problem? > > Thanks, > Ian Braithwaite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > SystemImager-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/systemimager-discuss > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Sisuite-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
