I am installing i386. I jumped to building a boot kernel with 2.6.10, which is likely a problem. I configured it with the config file from the "standard" flavor shipped with the systemimager-server package. But that is a leap from 2.4.21 or whatever version that is. I did that because I was using 2.6 and knew that the network driver was there. I've never had a SATA machine, and thought I had chosen drivers that were appropriate.
What I thought was goint to be easy, turned out to be hard - again. On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 11:28 -0600, Bryan Washer wrote: > Are you installing redhat Enterprise 3 x86_64 or are you installing i386? > > I have been dewling with the issues of installing this machiens as well and I > almost have it working installing the x86_64 version. YOu should have no > issues if you are installing i386 version. If you are installing the i386 > version and haveing these issues let me know and I will send you a dd image > of a boot floppy for those machines. > > Bryan Washer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bill Geddes > Sent: Tue 3/1/2005 11:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: [BULK] - [Sisuite-users] Dell 370 with SATA drive and Broadcom > (tg3) nic > I am attempting to build a custom S-I boot CD which is built on a 2.6.10 > kernel - customized to include the network driver for the Broadcom NIC - > tg3 driver - and will work with the SATA drive in this Dell 370. > The network driver works, as upon boot the scripts work to start rsync > with the server. Once it downloads the script from the server, it fails > to be able to find any disk device - 'parted -s -- /dev/sda print' > fails to stat the device. I cannot find either /dev/sda or /dev/hda > when manually attempting to troubleshoot this problem. This is truly > perplexing, even when I have built a custom intird.img which has this > device file and included it in a custom S-I CD. > > Background: > client machine is a Redhat Enterprise Linux with a kernel rev. of > 2.4.21-20. S-I package rev. is systemimager-client-3.2.3-1. > Hardware: Dell 370; > disk drive = ATA Model: WDC WD740GD-75FL, > NIC = Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI > Express > > server is debian unstable. kernel 2.6.6. systemimager-server 3.2.3-5. > > Ran prepareclient on the Redhat box, and getimage on the server - no > problem. Knew that I had to get a kernel with the right driver, so I > initially just added that to the config in the standard flavor. Result > was that rsync could find the install script, but the problem with the > device file persists. > > I have configured the DHCP server to know about the systemimager server, > and to pass a static IP to this MAC address. I have also put a > local.cfg file in the root of the filesystem, and rebuilt the CD - > results are the same. > > Reading the mailing list, I have seen some similar problems, but not > quite the same hardware. Has anyone solved this with similar hardware? > > -- Bill Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
