I would not recommend you to patch SystemImager yourself -- it can be somewhat involved.
You rebuilt Fedora 7's kernel so that it supports your network hardware, correct? So, you should be able to use UYOK with an unpatched version of SystemImager and it should be able to generate working kernel/ramdisk to boot up your client -- have you tried that? As long the server you are running si_prepareclient from has the correct marvell network module, the script should pull it and put it in the ramdisk. You mentioned numerous times regarding "initrd.img not found" but can you please post the exact error message? It is hard to troubleshoot without the exact errors. Did you check if the 2.6.22 kernel has the drivers for your network card? If so I will see about updating the SystemImager kernel to 2.6.22 but perhaps Andrea will beat me to it :-) Cheers, Bernard On 7/13/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Bernard, > Sorry to bother you with details but Fedora & kernel did not support my > marvell 8056 out of the box. I had to recompile the src kernel from fedora > and patch the marvell driver in to get it to recognize the new head nodes > p5k-vm mobo and marvell gigabit pci express card. > I made a UYOK with cramfs in kernel and I had the problem that initrd.img > was not being loaded ( could not be found) even though it was there in > /tftpboot since I puit it there. > The only solution is to use a source kernel witth 2.6.22 ( but how do i do > that for systemimager 4063?) > Thank you, > > Cheers, > Allan > Bernard Li wrote: > > You said that Fedora 7's kernel support your hardware out of the box, > so the correct way to get this working is UYOK. > > Therefore, please use the unpatched version of SystemImager and try > again with UYOK. If it fails, please provide the exact error messages > you see on screen. > > Newer development versions of SystemImager are available, but somehow > I do not think that will solve your problem -- you can get them here: > > http://download.systemimager.org/~arighi/systemimager/x86_64/ > > Another way to get around your problem is to update the SystemImager > kernel to 2.6.22, which hopefully includes the driver you need > (currently the kernel version is at 2.6.21). > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > On 7/12/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bernard, > the old systemimager 4063 works without a problem with the p5b-vm mobo > which has a realtek 8111b card and the tar error does not appear and the > node installs. It's only when i patch the kernel of systemimager-arighi-4063 > with the marvel driver to support my 3 p5k-vm new mobo that all works that > is the ethernet driver loads, the boel binarires load but tar comes up with > an error and installation halts for all mobos p5b-vm or p5k-vm > Peculiar behaviour. I do not understand it! > Can you see if there is a solution either with UYOK or a newer systemimager > kernel. can you point me to a newer systemimager than 4063 src? > Thank you very much! > Cheers, > Allan > > Bernard Li wrote: > > I thought we had this issue before where you atftp-server does not > like symlink of the kernel + ramdisk -- can you please check? > > Regards, > > Bernard > > On 7/12/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bernard, > Bernard Li wrote: > > If you boot the server with Fedora 7, does it correctly enable your > network? > > > yes > > If so, using UYOK with Fedora 7 kernel should work. > > I tried the command si_prepareclient --server 192.168.1.1 --no-rsyncd and > also the GUI UYOK > but the client tries to boot and comes up with repeatedly > Loading kernel ....... > Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.img anad bot files are there in > /tftpboot > Any other thing that s wrong. Please give me a suggestion . > Allan > > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > On 7/12/07, Allan Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > I need some help installing oscar for the p5k-vm mobo for fc7 x86_64. > The p5k-vm has a marvell yukon 8056 gig nic that sky2 or skge does not > support . > So I downloaded Arighi's systemimager 4063 src systemimager code. > I also downloaded the marvell driverv with the 10.0 ... driver sk98lin > for the nic and patched the linux-2.6.21 systemimager kernel > i did after configure and make gconfig and copying the .config to the > linux.x86_64.config in the ./patches dir > gave the following commands make binaries make install binaries and > copied the the kernel and initrd.img to /tftpboot > from /etc/systemimager/x86_64/boot/standard > but when i boot the client p5k machine it sees the marvel nic but > downloads the boel binaries and then comes up with a tar error: > tar wrong file file type > It halts and comes to the # prompt when i type tar it comes up with a > library error librt.so.1 file or directory missing. i go to /lib and it > is not there > All this is beta so it is hard to debug and the p5k-vm is the latest > mobo and quite cheap $135.00 cdn > But the marvel nic is not supported by systemimagers sky2 drivers so one > has to patch it with the marvel driver when it sees the card otherwise > it wont. > I tried UYOK without much success. > Any help would be appreciated very much and woulkd help oscar users with > new mobo s and distro install and use oscar. > Thank you, > Allan Menezes > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. 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