Jesus Sanchez wrote: >>> 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)
OK, this should be fixed in trunk, see http://trac.systemimager.org/browser/trunk/lib/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm#L361, function is_kernel(). The next SystemImager versions will include this fix. > >>> 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. I think you must specify "PREFERED = Boot::Grub", did you use this right? (not only "PREFERED = Grub") > > 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). > Has the golden client a different graphic card, respect to the other clients? In this case you would need to create custom post-install scripts to properly configure X, unfortunately systemconfigurator can't help you for this (yet). -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
