Mark Seger wrote: > I have a machine with attached storage which is about 2TB that I imaged, > but I umounted it before preparing the image and using --my-modules. > When I tried to image another machine, the install script blew up > because it tried to build an lvm volume set out of the attached > storage! My 'quick fix' was to remove the stanza in > autoinstallscript.conf and remake the install script. This time the > image installed and the system rebooted, except the system never came > back, sitting at the console message that it was booting from the hard > drive. This leads to a couple of things: > - what do I have to do to tell systemimager NOT to try and recreate a > particular lvm volume or can't I do that? what should I have done?
The correct procedure in these cases is to change the autoinstallscript.conf and re-create the .master script, running si_mkautoinstallscript, so you did well. > this particular volume is actually constructed out of for separate > luns. part of me thinks if something isn't mounted at 'prepareimage' > time, it shouldn't be recreated on the new client, but there's probably > also a lot more going on I'm not aware of IMHO if a filesystem isn't mounted this doesn't mean that you never want to recreate it in your clients... > - did my hacking of the autoinstallscript file cause my booting woes? No. I'm quite sure it's a different problem... > should there have been other edits made to it as well? if not is there > something else I should have done to make the image bootable? I'll > certainly try a few other things (not really sure what yet) but if > someone has any suggestions I'm ready to try them too. Could you check if your bootloader has been correctly installed in your clients? I mean, do you see any grub/lilo message after the reboot? -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
