RE: [Sisuite-devel] si_mkbootpackage - success!

[Bernard Li]

Title: Re: [Sisuite-devel] si_mkbootpackage

Don't get too excited, it's not perfect yet ;-)

 

I was able to successfully use si_mkbootpackage to create working binaries to boot and image my node using bits from RHEL4u2 x86.

 

Currently, there are 2 manual steps:

 

1) Need to manually figure out what "extra" modules to load for the node, eg. network drivers (for me, I had to pass --modules "mii e100 eepro100" when I run si_mkbootpackage).  If the node you are imaging is identical to the image server, then you don't need to worry about this.

2) Since RHEL4u2 uses udev, /dev is empty in initrd.img.  I was imaging a node with IDE drive, so I just manually did mknod for each hda partition.

 

We'll need to figure out how exactly to use udev to populate /dev so that this works.

 

Cheers,

 

Bernard

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andrea Righi
Sent: Mon 05/12/2005 00:55
To: Bernard Li
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] si_mkbootpackage

Bernard Li wrote:
> Yeah I figure it's missing something, but I can't point my figure at
> anything.
>
> Andrea, did you not encounter similar issues with your UYOK testing?

No, but anyway my UYOK tests stopped at the very first stage of boot,
since devfs was not supported by the kernel, so I've not experienced the
insmod failures...

Regards,
-Andrea

>
> Thanks,
>
> Bernard
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Erich Focht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 0:59
>>To: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>>Cc: Bernard Li
>>Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] si_mkbootpackage
>>
>>On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:08, Bernard Li wrote:
>>
>>>The installation bailed and I cd into /sbin.  insmod is
>>
>>there but when I tried to execute it:
>>
>>>
>>>/sbin # ./insmod
>>>sh: ./insmod: not found
>>
>>Sounds like you're missing ld-*.so or maybe a library
>>(message would be
>>different with the library, I think).
>>
>>Regards,
>>Erich
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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