Hello again, Do kernels that are to be installed by FAI need to not have an initrd? I made sure the chroot and nfsroot have initrd-tools installed, but it appears that the process is failing:
<><><> Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e. Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e (from .../kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9 e) This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for booting). As a reminder, in order to configure lilo, you need to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader. If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message, please put `do_initrd = Yes' in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not, you'll contitnue to see this message whenever you install a kernel image using initrd. Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]Ok, Aborting dpkg: error processing /fai/files/packages/kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e_10.00.Custom_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status <><><> It also fails if I try it manually: <><><> dpkg --root=/tmp/target -i kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e_10.00.Custom_i386.deb (Reading database ... 10235 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e 10.00.Custom (using kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e_10.00.Custom_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e ... Setting up kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e (10.00.Custom) ... awk: cannot open /proc/filesystems (No such file or directory) /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: Cannot determine root file system Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: kernel-image-2.4.20-grsec-1.9.9e <><><> I've put all of the logs in http://www.stanford.edu/~moho/fai/ A random debian stock kernel I tried also wishes to install an initrd. -- -Mike Horansky, ITSS/TSS/Computing Systems (Unix) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY ME ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY MY EMPLOYERS.
