Hi Andrea.
Andrea Righi wrote:
> Jesús Sánchez González wrote:
>> Hi Andrea.
>>
>>
>> On 3/3/08, *Andrea Righi* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> This is a problem with the kernel shipped with your distribution and
>> lilo, not a systemimager / systemconfigurator issue. To reduce the
>> kernel size you could try to strip(1) it and re-compress it again, but
>> this would mean "changing" the kernel provided by the distribution, that
>> is never a good idea... better to use grub at this point.
>>
>>
>> Definitely I decided not to 'resize' the kernel but to use grub.
>
> Good choice. :-)
I didn't resize the kernel and now it works with grub but also with lilo,
which I tested accidentally because I forgot to
modify the file systemconfig.conf.
But it's ok anyway.
>>
>> As I told you I applied the patch 'manually' but it didn't work. I can
>> attach the patched si_prepareclient if you want.
>
> No, it's ok, my patch is based on the latest developers' trunk, and
> unfortunately the patch is not enough... sorry, it needs additional
> patches to be correctly applied. You could try to install SI 4.1.4 in
> your golden client and apply the patch to si_prepareclient 4.1.4.
I downloaded and installed the following packages on the golden node:
systemimager-client-4.1.4-1
systemimager-common-4.1.4-1
systemimager-x86_64initrd_template-4.1.4-1
I tried to apply the patch but I got an error so I decided to apply the
patch manually and try again.
>> As you can see, the 'orphan' parameter appears again:
>> 'tor_6L080M0_L26FVVDG-part2' so I suppose the patch didn't work or I
>> didn't apply it properly.
>
> OK, see above.
It worked with the patched si_prepareclient.
>> The node couldn't boot and I get the following error from Grub:
>>
>> 13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format
>
> What about `file -z /boot/vmlinux-2.6.22.5-31-default.gz`?
pac-node1:~ # file -z /boot/vmlinux-2.6.22.5-31-default.gz
/boot/vmlinux-2.6.22.5-31-default.gz: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64,
version 1 (SYSV) (gzip compressed data, was
"vmlinux-2.6.22.5-31-default", from Unix, last modified: Mon Sep 24 21:09:09
2007, max compression)
>> After that I edited the booting menu from Grub and I removed the
>> 'orphan' parameter 'tor_6L080M0_L26FVVDG-part2' and also changed the
>> kernel file to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-31-default. After that I tried to
>> reboot and it worked.
>
> Good! so I'm sure if you apply the patch we'll be able to fix this
> problem. And the fix will be present in the next systemimager versions.
OK, installed systemimager-client-4.1.4-1, patched si_prepareclient manually
with the patch you sent me.
After doing that, repeated si_prepareclient from the golden client,
modifying systemconfig.conf adding PREFERED for Grub,
running si_getimage from the 'master' using the old image and then repeating
the autoinstall operation in a new node and it
worked, it installed Grub and after rebooting it started with no problem.
I generated a new image to try things from the beginning and I forgot to
modify systemconfig.conf, and what I have is the
same node reinstalled again but running lilo instead of Grub, this means that
the patch also fix the problem we had with
lilo and for us it doesn't matter which boot loader is installed if the node
starts well.
So it's almost done. I have to try the image with the old nodes, machines a
little bit different from the new ones.
And I have one more question, the golden node is one of the old nodes that
had openSUSE 10.1 and has been upgraded to
openSUSE 10.3. The nodes start in runlevel 3 but I tried to go into a graphical
environment in the golden node and it worked
fine, but it did not work in a cloned system (one of the new nodes).
Thank you very much.
jesus .-
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