If anyone else is following this and has had the same problem, sorry, I didn't solve it. I swapped the SATA drives for old parallel ones and it all worked (except for Grub but thats another story...)
I'm guessing that a later (2.6?) kernel will probably work but I don't have the time or expertise to get involved in making a new SI boot kernel. On Tuesday 27 July 2004 09:31, Murray Curtis wrote: > Thanks for the reply Peter > > On Tuesday 27 July 2004 04:16, Peter Mueller wrote: > > What was the procedure you used? The parted hang makes me think you are > > mixing initrd and boel versions. When parted hung, did it print anything > > about missing any libraries? > > The (literal) procedure was: > * Installed server 3.2.3-1 with deps on a RH9 system (another Intel MB). > * Installed client on golden client system (Intel / Fedora 2) and ran prepareclient > * Ran getimage on the image server. (seemed to work fine) > * Ran addclients on image server > * Ran mkautoinstalldiskette > * Created a local.cfg file on the floppy with only hostname and imageserver entries. > * Booted 3rd (to be installed) system from floppy. > > Parted just hangs. No message, no escape with CTRL C. I added a shellout to the > script > just before the parted call so I could get to the prompt and ran parted manually > with the > same result. Rebooted and tried sfdisk. It put up its message about checking if the > disk > was in use and hung as well. > > At this point I searched the forum and found your kernel iso which I put on a CD > with the > same result again. I then upgraded the image server to 3.3.2 devel version and made > a > new boot floppy. Hung again. > > On the golden client the SATA disks are refered to as /dev/sd*. Seems to me that > because both sfdisk and parted hang theres something about either the SATA > hardware/Bios on these intel boards or theres something strange about the existing > format > of the drive. > > Just out of interest I tried parted on (yet another same) system running Fed2 with no > problems. It was version 1.6.9 where I noted the version with systemimager was 1.6.5 > so I went through the change logs between the two versions and could see nothing that > suggested a change had been made for hardware compatiblility. > > > > While I have only tried my setup with Intel 7210 chipset (Dell PE750), it > > is essentially the same chipset and thus should work. It is a libata SATA > > controller, controlled by the libata driver. Or at least it is if you want > > it to recognize as /dev/sd? as most distributions do. The stock SI kernels > > will recognize SATA as /dev/hd?. > > Booting from both the devel 3.3.2 floppy and your iso, /dev contains no hd? devices > at all. > > I'm a little vague as to what to do now but thanks for your help Peter. Might try > and > find an unused IDE system and try that just to convince myself that I can make it > all work. > > Cheers > Murray > > > > FYI I have had success with 3.2.0-4, both as client and server. I have not > > tested other versions. Theoretically my kernel has all its drivers built > > in, making it immune to most version changes. In 3.2.0-4, I believe > > multicast is a little broken but otherwise SI is solid. If you run out of > > things to try and are in a time crunch I would recommend trying that > > version. > > > > P > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Murray > > Sent: Sun 7/25/2004 7:08 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Sisuite-users] parted hangs during autoinstall > > > > > > > > Hi > > > > I have a problem while autoinstalling with parted hanging at its first call > > to print the existing partition table. I tried sfdisk at the same point and > > it hung while "checking to see if this disk is in use" or words to that > > effect. > > > > The system is identical to the golden client; an Intel 875PBZ board with a > > SATA drive. The device is /dev/sda. /dev/hda dosn't exist if thats > > relevant... > > > > I've had them same results with (stable) V3.2.3 and (devel) V3.3.2. I also > > tried Peter Mueller's si320sata.iso kernel still with the same result. > > > > Any suggestions please? > > > > Thanks > > > > Murray Curtis > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop > > FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! > > Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idG21&alloc_id040&op=click > > _______________________________________________ > > Sisuite-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on > Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, > one more big change to announce. 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