Hi Gregory:

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you're not subscribed, please do.  This ensures that the discussion is
being captured and other developers can help out as well.

> mknod, creates correct devices, but installation stops after 
> partition creation

Can you provide more info?  Did it bail with any particular error
messages?

> Then, I tried this: I changed the installation script to make symbolic
> links. I added:
> ln -s /dev/cciss/host0/target0/disc /dev/cciss/c0d0
> ln -s /dev/cciss/host0/target0/part1 /dev/cciss/c0d01
> ln -s /dev/cciss/host0/target0/part2 /dev/cciss/c0d02
> ln -s /dev/cciss/host0/target0/part3 /dev/cciss/c0d03
> 
> The installation process starts, but the system doesn't reboot. I've
> checked with a rescue cd, boot flag hasn't been set on partitions and
> grub doesn't seems to be installed.
> 
> The scripts uses c0d01 for partition 1, where it should be c0d0p1
> (note the 'p').

I wonder if this actually "worked" but SystemConfigurator does not know
how to deal with cciss?  Anyways, can you try to boot with a rescue CD,
install grub and see if that goes?

> An other point is: when checking the partitions with fdisks, drive
> geometry differs from the geometry of the exact same discs on the
> master? fdisk and parted do not work the same way?

I'm not too familiar with the differences between parted and fdisk, so I
can't really comment here...

> ps : I know I'm using beta software with unusal hardware :-)

:-)  We'll try to figure it out.

BTW, have you tried using si_prepareclient to generate the
kernel/initrd.img?  Perhaps that works better as supposedly the OS of
your headnode supports your hardware...

Cheers,

Bernard


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