Hi all, I know you did a work-around for this problem by running the Grub config directly instead of via SystemConfigurator. I'm just wondering if that is satisfactory for you at this time? "Real" support of Opterons would certainly be advantageous and I'm looking to find out if you or anyone is pursuing this further. From the look of things, we would need a Opteron 64 boot rpm containing a kernel and operating environment similar to the Itanium one we have now.
So, anybody working on this? Thanks, Mike On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 16:48, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 15:37, Kevin Murphy wrote: > > I finally ended up booting the boxes on the 32-bit kernel, installing a > > minimal set of 32 bit binaries needed to run the SystemConfigurator > > stuff after the chroot on the gold client, and tweaking the PATHs in the > > autoinstall script to point to the 32 bit binaries. > > > > Ugly. But it works. > > Kevin, > > Just how "minimal" were the set of binaries to run systemconfigurator? > Running systemconfigurator requires perl. Did you include an entire > 32-bit perl tree in that minimal set? > > With your advice on the environmental variables and the chroot process > I was able to successfully chroot into the newly rsynced client. In > order to do this I had to build a static, 32-bit bash as well as a > static busybox and install them in a /bin32 directory on the new client. > After doing this I was able to chroot and run any of the busybox linked > commands. At this point you cannot run systemconfigurator because it > requires perl and the 32-bit shell cannot execute the perl in the 64-bit > distro. > > I tried to bypass perl and whittle the install script to directly run > grub-install to, at least, get a booting client. Alas grub is a 64-bit > binary as well. I compiled a static version of grub > but it relies on several other binaries in the OS that cannot be > executed by the 32-bit shell. > > You got this to work so I must have taken a wrong turn and ended up in > the weeds. I'd like to know some detail of what you did to get the > chroot final processing to work, especially with systemconfigurator. On > the path I am currently on I will have my own 32-bit mini-distro if I > have to put anymore "stuff" in there. > > Thank you, > > Jeff -- Michael Chase-Salerno [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center Poughkeepsie, NY Advanced Linux Response Team http://www.ibm.com/linux ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
