Patrick Dowler wrote: > I put a bunch of comments about using SI 3.7.4r3734_bli-1 to image some FC5 > systems, but putting them all in one message was probably a mistake, so here > follows some issues with separate subject lines. Sorry for the dupes. > > golden client: FC5 desktop, serial ATA > imaged systems: mix of PATA, SATA, and SCSI > > == problem: > > The disk enumeration fails to detect a P-ATA disk (hda) and falls back to > using sda (since golden client has a sata disk). I can't really decipher that > chunk of code (looking in /proc/diskstats, which does contain a bunch of > lines for hda), so I put in a work-around which is sufficient for our simple > systems: > > DISK0=`test -e /proc/ide/hda/geometry && echo "/dev/hda" || echo "/dev/sda"` > > (ie if hda is a hard disk, that is the target, otherwise sda is the target; > we > have a mix of pata, sata, and regular scsi)... This is clearly not a general > solution, but it is our current workaround. > > As a side effect, the "disk edit" section farther down is skipped because > DISKORDER is zero-length. > > For the grub.conf, we always edit it in a postUpdate script anyway since we > are upating servers and desktops (servers have extra serial console config > in the grub.conf). For the fstab (swap devices since FC5 uses disk labels) I > fix that in a post-install script. >
Patrick, have you tried to re-create the autoinstallscript using the option --autodetect-disks with si_mkautoinstallscript? (this option is available also with si_getimage). Cheers, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
