I tried building 3.7.3 on a debian sarge box and had various problems during the make, so it never finished. Would one expect 3.7.3 to build on a stable box or should we try testing? We are using 3.4 since we've had issues with the newer versions, but all our clients are running debian stable.
Bernard Li wrote: > I would recommend trying a newer version of SystemImager and go from there. > > If you ask me which version, I tend to say 3.7.3 even though it is a > development release. IMHO it is working pretty well for us. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of > Leforestier Marc > *Sent:* Thu 29/06/2006 07:51 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Sisuite-users] /sbin/init kernel panic > > Ok thanks for the link. > > I do like explain : > > I found /etc/systemimager/boot on the golden-client > I copy kernel and initrd.img in /tftpboot on my pxe server > I modify the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg : > > LABEL systemimager > PROMPT 1 > DISPLAY message.txt > TIMEOUT 150 > KERNEL kernel > APPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=80000 > > And now the machine I want to clone, doesn't boot well with pxe. > After loading kernel and initrd.img : > write_variables > /etc/init.d/rcS: 41: cannot create /tmp/variables.txt: Read-only file system > Killing off running processes. > > ... I really doon't know what to do ;) > > Marc > > Quoting Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Comments below. > > > > Leforestier Marc wrote: > >> Quoting Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>> Are you using UYOK kernel+initrd? > >> > >> Hé hé I don't know what is UYOK kernel+initrd ;) > > > > UYOK = UseYourOwnKernel > > > > Here you can find a short documentation of it written by Bernard: > > > > http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/wiki/SystemImager > > > >> > >> I just do the "simple" method to clone a linux system : > >> si_prepareclient/si_getimage/boot pxe > >> > >> I have noticed that there is a problem at the end of the cloning > process : > >> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > >> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 > >> df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems > >> df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems > >> Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. > >> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > >> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 > >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 160. > >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (s///) at > >> /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 164. > >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 235. > >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > >> /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 237. > >> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > >> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 > >> > >> Perhaps the problem is grub ? > > > > Do you receive these errors when you run si_prepareclient? AFAIK > > si_prepareclient shouldn't use Boot::Grub, it's a systemconfigurator > > module... but maybe with cloning you mean at the end of the client > > installation, right? > > > >>>> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered mode. > >>>> /sbin/init: 432 : cannot create /dev/null : Read-only file system > >>>> /sbin/init: 433 : cannot open dev/console : No such file > >>>> Kernel panic : Attempted to kill init! > >>>> > > > > BTW the problem seems to be in the initrd, so do you receive the errors > > after the client installation during the first reboot? > > > > Regards, > > -Andrea > > > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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