Following Steven's advice, I use SystemImager 3.6.3 on the IBM x326m. I copied the kernel and initrd.img from the image's /etc/systemimager/boot/ to /tftpboot on the server. When the x326m boots on these files by PXE/TFTP, an error crops up when the root filesystem is mounted (copied by hand from the install screen):
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 16777218 VFS: Mounted root (etx2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed attempt to access beyond end of device ram0: rw=0, want=32776, limit=32768 EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - i 273 , block=16387 Warning: unable to open an initial console attempt to access beyond end of device ram0: rw=0, want=40358, limit=32768 (etc. etc. and then it freezes) It would appear that there is something wrong with the initrd.img created by si_prepareclient (?). My Linux version is Redhat RHEL4 (actually the Centos 4.1 clone). I should also add that my PXE/TFTP server has SystemImager 3.5.2, but that should be unimportant for serving the kernel+initrd.img by TFTP. We really need to get this IBM node going with SystemImager, so I wonder what the next thing to try out may be ? Thanks a lot, Ole Steven A. DuChene wrote:
I have used systemimager 3.6.3 to image some of our IBM e326m nodes here and I used the funtionality of the UYOK stuff to boot with the kernel already being used on the systems to boot to the systemimager install. Once you pull the image in /var/lib/systemimager/images/YOUR_IMAGE_NAME/etc/systemimager/boot/ there will be a kernel and a initrd.img file that should do the trick. On your imageserver use the si_mkbootserver command to properly set these up to be booted with. A command line sequence like: si_mkbootserver --interface=eth2 --kernel=PATH_TO_KERNEL_FILE/kernel --initrd=/PATH_TO_INITRD_FILE/initrd.img --tftpdir=/tftpboot --pxelinux=/usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 --localdhcp=y is the syntax that worked for me.
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