Hi Jan:

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Jan Groenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have just upgraded clients from feisty to hardy, and the dapper server
> is staying the same. I had this beauty to fix the sda-in-install /
> hda-in-installer problem, in the master script, before systemconfigurator,
> so that grub got installed (and I don't have to go fix it with a live CD):
>
>   echo "IDE-SCSI FIXES"
>   echo "ln -s /dev/hda /dev/sda || shellout"
>   ln -s /dev/hda /dev/sda || shellout
>   echo "ln -s /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1 || shellout"
>   ln -s /dev/hda1 /dev/sda1 || shellout
>   echo "mount /dev /a/dev -o bind || shellout"
>   mount /dev /a/dev -o bind || shellout
>   echo "echo '(hd0) /dev/sda' > /a/boot/grub/device.map || shellout"
>   echo '(hd0) /dev/sda' > /a/boot/grub/device.map || shellout
>
> Now, hardy should be an upgrade from feisty, so I have this version:
>
>   ii  systemconfigur 2.2.2-2        Unified Configuration API for Linux 
> Installa

You may consider upgrading to the latest version of systemconfigurator:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24006&package_id=17960

> But here I get system configurator bombing out with:
>
>   You shouldn't call /sbin/grub-install...
>
>   df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems
>   df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted file systems
>   Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.
>   Probing devices to guess BIOS dirves. This may take a long time.
>
>   Busybox v1.1.1...
>
> Is there no quick fix in the master script for this? Any ideas why it started
> failing?
>
> I do recall something -- when parted first reads the partition table on hardy 
> golden client,
> there is an error, something like perl: wrong hash, but I would have to go 
> redo that now
> to check (and I didn't think it was related, I got all the way through the 
> partitioning
> and rsync).

Have you considered using UYOK?  That should probably solve your sda
vs hda issue without the need of additional code:

http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/UYOK

Cheers,

Bernard

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