Ok, I figured it out. The 'Probing devices' messages actually come from grub. I resolved it by replacing the systemconfigurator call by:
chroot /a/ /sbin/grub --no-floppy --batch<<EOT 1>/dev/null 2>dev/null root (hd0,1) setup (hd0) quit EOT I am also now calling dd with chroot /a/ dd if=/root/ssu.img of=/dev/hda1 bs=1k || shellout I suspect it works because the boel and RedHat 9 kernels are reasonably compatible. Cheers, Bernard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Normier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 6:18 PM Subject: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager 3.0.1 and RedHat 9 > Hello, > > I am using SystemImager 3.0.1 to setup RedHat 9 on a number of > identical servers (all with an Intel SE7501WV2 IDE motherboard), > using PXE boot. > > A few things don't work quite as they should: > > - the generated .master shell script creates the swap partition with > id 0x83 instead of 0x82 > Work-around: replace 'ext2' by 'linux-swap' in the corresponding > parted mkpart line > > - the systemconfigurator step toward the end of the imaging takes > way too long (several minutes), and issues many floppy drives errors: > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 2 > etc. > df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems > etc. > > These servers have no floppy drive and the floppy controller is > disabled in the BIOS. I could not find the perl script responsible > for this probing. Any suggestion? Work-around? > I am using systemconfigurator-2.0.7-1 > > Also these servers have an Intel Service Partition in /dev/hda1 > (a 40MB DOS/DOS-like partition with id 0x12). > The best (only?) way to keep it (in particular keep it bootable) > is to make a raw image of a /dev/hda1 and then copy it over the > clone's /dev/hda1, with dd. If boel included dd, I could do it > automatically in the cloning shell script! > > Thanks, > Bernard > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. > See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: > Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
