fai-installation fails
hi! got the problem with fai 2.6.6 fixed by uncommenting the line mentioned by jimmy. now the (DEMO-)installation runs through, partitioning the HD, installing packages etc. at the end it ells me that some errors occured in error.log. then the usual message (hit enter to reboot) appears. after rebooting grub is trying to boot the default entry, but fails with error message Error 1 - File name must by either an absolute pathname or blocklist. error.log tells me the following: cfengine.log:Currently non existent variable $(HOSTNAME) cfengine.log:Currently non existent variable $(HOSTNAME) dmesg.log:cdrom: open failed. rcS.log:Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file rcS.log:Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file shell.log:E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386 shell.log:ls: vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory shell.log:ls: /tmp/target/boot/vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory shell.log:Can't match device: /dev/root software.log:Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file software.log:Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file fai-kernels is installed, the correct KERNELPACKAGE ist set in /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf any ideas? thanks in advance! mat.
Re: fai-installation fails
Thanks a lot! that solved the problem! but why does fai use this kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386-entry instead of kernel-image-2.4-386, which would be much easier? regards mat Am 16:00 22.02.05 +0100 schrieb Alexander Bugl: Hi! after rebooting grub is trying to boot the default entry, but fails with error message Error 1 - File name must by either an absolute pathname or blocklist. error.log tells me the following: shell.log:E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386 shell.log:ls: vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory shell.log:ls: /tmp/target/boot/vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory fai-kernels is installed, the correct KERNELPACKAGE ist set in /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf KERNELPACKAGE is IMHO only used for generating the NFS root (and as such it is defined in /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf). But you have to install a kernel package on the machine which is due to be installed, and that has failed (see your above cited error messages). This may be because there is no Debian package named kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386 (see http://packages.debian.org). Try using kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 or the more generic kernel-image-2.4-386, then the installation should run through. You can define this in /usr/local/share/fai/class/DEFAULT.var, if you use the simple example files. Best regards, Alex -- Alexander Bugl, Central IT Services, ZMAW Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Bundesstrasse 53, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany tel +49-40-41173-351, fax -298, room PE042 __ Matthias Lechner Laser-Forschungslabor Urologische Klinik der LMU Marchioninistr. 23 81377 München Tel.: 089/7095-4887 Fax:089/7095-4864 http://laser.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de __
Re: fai-installation fails
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:40:35 +0100, Matthias Lechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thanks a lot! that solved the problem! but why does fai use this kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386-entry instead of kernel-image-2.4-386, which would be much easier? This meta package did not exist for some time, so I had to use the other package name. But I will switch to the more generic name in a future release. -- regards Thomas
Re: fai-installation fails
On Di, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:40:35PM +0100, Matthias Lechner wrote: Thanks a lot! that solved the problem! but why does fai use this kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386-entry instead of kernel-image-2.4-386, which would be much easier? regards mat Hi, I guess 'man make-kpkg' gives you an answer...it's the kernel-revision. It may me a matter of taste, but I experienced it as a practical thing while testing different kernel-images. Regards, Oliver -- - Oliver Osburg - System Architect Computerlinguistik - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]phone: +49761 203 3356 note : All above is my opinion unless specified otherwise. 9:30, Computing Center: Mainserver died. Hairdo okay.
