Hi On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:10:06PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > You can run dd off the filesystem of the node being imaged, i.e. > /a/bin/dd (when it is mounted) > I believe dd was included in busybox/BOEL in the latest development > release (3.5.3). Yes, it was not included in the earlier one that I have: 3.2.3. See below why I don't seem to need to upgrade though.
Interestingly, though grub-install does not see hda inside the chroot, dd does! Why this is so is beyond my understanding of the issues invovled. I now have a automatic net install with this bit in the master script after systemconfigurator, before umounting. (Of course I put the hda.mbr and correct device.map in place somewhere in image:/etc/systemimager/..) ########################################################################### # AIMS stuff # # Since systemconfigurator --runboot failed (could not see /dev/hda), # MBR never got installed (due to udev? due to 2.6 kernel?) # # Wrong device.map set because boot environment does not see /dev/hda echo "cp -f /a/etc/systemimager/aims/device.map /a/boot/grub/device.map || shellout" cp -f /a/etc/systemimager/aims/device.map /a/boot/grub/device.map || shellout # # MBR not set up echo "chroot /a/ dd if=/etc/systemimager/aims/hda.mbr of=/dev/hda || shelout" chroot /a/ dd if=/etc/systemimager/aims/hda.mbr of=/dev/hda || shellout # # Note, also had to add devfs=mount to /boot/grub/menu.1st on golden # client # udev problem: kernel has no /dev/console to use # # Another thing. I does not want /local on the server, wasting space, # so I exclude it from imaging completely by unmounting before getimage; # then the FS is not made, and the node bombs out when booting echo "mke2fs -j /dev/hda7 || shellout" mke2fs -j /dev/hda7 || shellout # ########################################################################### I will still have to change the updateclient script to 1) remount /boot rw 2) update device.map at the end, and put the MBR back in (in case it has changed). cheers, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list Sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
