By the way, I was going to try 3.7.6 but there's no ia64-boot-standard rpm.. :-(
Help? --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brodie, Kent Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:30 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [sisuite-users] IA64 booting - need some insight? Hi all! Long time, no upgrade.... :-) My old setup was redhat 3 and a VERY old version of systemimager- but it worked. Fast-forward to today; the servers are all upgraded (reinstall, actually) to RHAS4 - and I've grabbed and installed the latest (3.6.3) systemimager toys. Systemimager-server-- all good. Grabbed the client image no problems. Yay! But-- I'm having an issue BOOTING the client-- It grabs the DHCP address... does the TFTP... seems to successfully grab the load image, but then just HANGS. The console output is this: ..... Running LoadFile() CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 30 6E F3 4B 50 CLIENT IP: 192.168.96.102 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 192.168.96.10 GATEWAY IP: 192.168.96.1 TSize.Running LoadFile() TFTP. ELILO boot: Uncompressing Linux... done Loading initrd ia64/standard/initrd.img...done AT <== this is where it hangs The boot environment is right out of systemimager-ia64boot-standard-3.6.3-1. Elilo.efi copied from the boot dir of the running system. My elilo.conf file looks like th: prompt timeout=50 default=systemimager image=ia64/standard/kernel label=systemimager initrd=ia64/standard/initrd.img read-only root=/dev/ram append="console=ttyS0" I removed the "ramdisk_blocksize" item that was there before, seems to have made no difference. Weird thing is-- when I save off my tftp directory and instead plop back the stuff from the OLD (3.2.3) into /tftpboot-- I get MUCH further, but then things blow up with file not found and such. I'm not addressing that now, because I have to assume that the ia64-boot environment and everything else much be from the same version platform (i.e., 3.6.3). Anyway- does anyone have a clue as to why the client is hanging when attempting to boot from the systemimager-supplied initrd and kernel? I have NO error messages to go on of course. The "AT" at the end is (I think??) some type of hardware autodetection going on. Do I need extra stuff in my elilo.conf file to make the newer boot environment happy? Thanks for ANY insight on this folks --kent --------------------------------------------------------- Kent C. Brodie - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physiology Medical College of Wisconsin (414) 456-8590 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Righi Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 5:05 AM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Starting to feel like a pain.. SDA image to a HDA host Tory M Blue wrote: > Okay, > > i'm at it again, doing weird stuff. But i'm running into an issue and > have not a clue (probably already figured that out).. > > systemimager 3.7.5 and the supporting cast.. > > Images just fine but I'm now trying to get a newer image on an older > box and I should be able to do that with some tweaks but it's not > working. > > systemimager works to the systemconfigurator point then falls on it's knees. > > systemimager locates the drive, see's that it is in fact a /dev/hda, > runs thru the entire partition creation, label creating and rsyncs the > image. The script then manipulates the modprobe.conf etc.etc and > launches systemconfigurator with the following values. > > chroot /a/ systemconfigurator --verbose > --excludesto=/etc/systemimager/systemconfig.local.exclude --configsi > --stdin << EOL || shellout > > > After the image is layed down, the files are manipulated /dev/sda -> > /dev/hda etc. > > I see the following messages (sorry can't paste identical as it's only > sending systemconfigurator data to screen). > > Probing devices to guess bios drives > "No suitable drive was found in the generated device map" > > Reverting to backed up copy. > > Getting label for /dev/hda1 thru /dev/hda8 > > Warning Label / not found anywhere on the System > > And continues this way thru all my partitions and labels which I > believe systemimager actually successfully created earlier in the > script. > > I then get the normal no bootloaders were installed as there were no > acceptable blah blah devices found and Croak dead.. > > I can do a fdisk -l and see my partition table is correct.. But it's > never able to really create the MBR is my guess since the box won't > boot.. /etc/grub.conf shows correct and linux rescue sees the linux > filesystem, so systemconfigurator is failing to complete it's task and > i'm left with a fully imaged, partitioned disk but no Master Boot > Record or boot loader. > > A) systemconfigurator is failing to find my HDA device, why, when > systemimager found it fine.. > B) where is systemconfigurator pulling the device map from? Is there > something being caught on the original sda image that needs to be > manually changed > > I'm sure someone can walk me thru what systemconfigurator is doing and > or what files it's grabbing to see if' that's the issue. i've also > gone as far as changing /boot/grub/device.map to hda from sda in the > image (no luck).. Which version of systemconfigurator are you using? have you tried the latest version on trunk? http://svn.systemimager.org/listing.php?repname=systemconfigurator&path= %2Ftrunk%2F&rev=0&sc=0 Instruction to get it are here: http://svn.systemimager.org/ Regards, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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