Dear members:
I have 20 Dell precision 470 Workstations ,each has 2*3.6GHz Xeon CPU, 1GB ECC RAM, 36 GB SCSI HDD (Adaptec SCSI Control Card), PXE supported.
I have installed RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 Update 3 in one of these computer as the server node. When I used the boot CD to install RHEL AS3 U3, It can automatic install the SCSI driver(aic79xx). Now, I have successful configured and installed
OSCAR4.1 in the server node.
My problem happened when I tried to install the client nodes, as follows:
In step 6: setup networking
Because the dhcpd service in server node cann't start(conflicted with an existed dhcpd server), I used mkautoinstalldiskette -config FILE to creat a boot floppy.
When I used the boot floppy to boot up one client node, It can find the server node and excute the /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/(clientname).sh. But a error message appeared " NO DISK DEVICE FILES WERE FOUND. THIS USUALLY MEANS THE KERNEL DID NOT RECOGNIZE ANY OF THE ATTACHED DISKS".
Then, I tried to use mkautoinstalldiskette -config FILE -kernel $Path_to_the_kernel_as_server_node -initrd $Path_to_the_initrd_as_server_node to creat a boot floppy and used it to boot up the client node.
But a new error message displayed,"Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel"
So, I am puzzled by these problems. I think the problem focus on how can the SCSI driver be loaded successful.
Can anyone help me out with these problems?
If I used the dhcpd server and PXE to boot the server nodes, can the server nodes load the SCSI driver aic79xx with the default kernel ?
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