RE: [Sisuite-users] Grub.Pm again ;-)

2006-03-01 Thread Bernard Li
16:02 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Grub.Pm again ;-) Bernard, I am using this one: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=24006 Is that not the current version? -Drew - Original Message - From: Bernard Li [EMAIL

RE: [Sisuite-users] Grub.Pm again ;-)

2006-03-01 Thread Bernard Li
da3 initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.imgbut if i then IMAGE this image onto an IDE drive, the kernel line is nolonger valid, it needs to change to /dev/hda3.Any ideas??-Drew- Original Message -----From: "Bernard Li" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSent: Wedne

RE: [Sisuite-users] Regarding Grub.pm...

2006-02-27 Thread Bernard Li
Title: RE: [Sisuite-users] Regarding Grub.pm... Which version of SystemImager are you using? As far as I know this functionality already exists in 3.5.3 in the sense that you can create one image and as long as the hardware are similiar enough, it doesn't matter whether the device shows up

RE: [Sisuite-users] Regarding Grub.pm...

2006-02-27 Thread Bernard Li
-Drew - Original Message - From: Bernard Li To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net ; sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Regarding Grub.pm... Which version of SystemImag

RE: [Sisuite-users] Couldn't /dev/MAKEDEV -d /tmp/.systemimager.3/dev hda sda

2006-02-24 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Ashley: Is it reasonable for UseYourOwnKernel.pm to use a more standard method to create devices? That chunk of code has not been checked into SVN yet, so this is just experimental code to get me going. Another user encountered a similar problem on SuSE and used this method instead:

RE: [Sisuite-users] additional sata support

2006-02-20 Thread Bernard Li
Hi George: 3.6.2 is available in Debian unstable: http://pdo.debian.net/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=systemimagers earchon=namessubword=1version=unstablerelease=all However, you might want to grab source from branches/3.6.x and try building that instead - it has numerous bugfixes since

RE: [Sisuite-users] rpm problem building systemimager-3.6.3 - maybe GPG key needed?

2006-02-17 Thread Bernard Li
: Friday, February 17, 2006 16:50 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] rpm problem building systemimager-3.6.3 - maybe GPG key needed? Hi Bernard! On Feb 17, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Hi Charles: Just to clarify: /trunk is not 3.6.3

RE: [Sisuite-users] mkbootpackage (bug 1426566)

2006-02-16 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] mkbootpackage (bug 1426566) Hi Patrick: It sounds like you need to use si_mkautoinstallcd with the kernel/initrd.img created using si_prepareclient. Use the --kernel and --initrd arguments. BTW, use si_prepareclient with the --norsync argument. si_mkbootpackage

RE: [Sisuite-users] creating image on a mounted NFS file system

2006-02-13 Thread Bernard Li
What version of SystemImager are you using? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of GustavoSent: Mon 13/02/2006 09:28To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Sisuite-users] creating image on a mounted NFS file system Hi, I am having problems creating an image on

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-02-03 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bela: It appears that you can mount the initrd.img and write to it: mv initrd.img initrd.img.gz gunzip initrd.img.gz mount -o loop initrd.img /mnt Modify the file, then gzip it. Hopefully it'll work. Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of B. ErdelyiSent: Fri

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-02-03 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bela: Don't think you need to "recreate initrd.img with cramfs" - once you mount it and modify the functions file, just umount initrd.img, then gzip it then rename it back to initrd.img and put it in /tftpboot (or re-make autoboot CD). If that doesn't work, then I recommend you

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-02-01 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bela: If the tmpfs parameters were indeed passed onto the kernel, then the tmpfs size should be what you specified. I am really ata loss as to what has gone wrong... Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of B. ErdelyiSent: Wed 01/02/2006 16:08To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-01-28 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bela: The RPMs have the same names, but they are built at different times (with slightly different code). This is my bad so from now on I will give them unique identifiers such that we can easily identify which version you are using. I guess the only difference between your

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-01-27 Thread Bernard Li
Trimming my response so it goes through... From: Bernard Li Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:26To: 'sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net'Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs If you want to work around

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-01-27 Thread Bernard Li
, January 27, 2006 2:28 PMTo: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs Trimming my response so it goes through... From: Bernard Li Sent: Friday, January

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-01-27 Thread Bernard Li
] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs Trimming my response so it goes through... From: Bernard Li Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 11:26To: 'sisuite-users

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-01-26 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Bela: Can you check the resulting CD's isolinux/syslinux.cfg to make sure that the append statements are actually there? It should look something like:LABEL systemimagerKERNEL kernelAPPEND vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram tmpfs_size=2G tmpfs_nr_inodes=2000 I just tested

RE: [Sisuite-users] need a kernel with support for Broadcom and SATA

2006-01-25 Thread Bernard Li
for Broadcom and SATA This was solved already by Bernard Li. Alexandre TOURNIER System Administrator DG-JRC European Commission Institute for Environment and Sustainability - Global Environment Monitoring TP 440 - Via Fermi,1 21020 ISPRA (VA) - Italy tel: +x

RE: [Sisuite-users] Installing on FC4: missing libappconfig-perl, udpcast

2006-01-25 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Nick: You should be able to find all the RPMs you need from this location: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/branches/branch-4-2/packages /sis/distro/ (look in common-rpms and fc4-i386) Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Sisuite-users] Can you help me? Thanks!

2006-01-25 Thread Bernard Li
Looks like you're missing the perl module XML::Simple. What OS are you installing on? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chg wangSent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 17:20To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject:

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with si_mkatuoinstalldiskette

2006-01-23 Thread Bernard Li
Does RH9 actually support your SATA drives? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy ToddSent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:24To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs

2006-01-21 Thread Bernard Li
Are you using LVM? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of B. ErdelyiSent: Fri 20/01/2006 11:11To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Sisuite-users] Problem with mkautoinstallcd tmpfs Hi, I am attempting an image install with si_mkautoinstallcd using SI

RE: [Sisuite-users] master script missing

2006-01-17 Thread Bernard Li
Title: master script missing The master script is generated by mkautoinstallscript (prepend si_ if newer version of SystemImager). Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris HarrisSent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 13:05To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] Building SystemImager RPMs

2006-01-17 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] Building SystemImager RPMs Hi Jim: If you're looking for SystemImager 3.5.3 RPMs, perhaps you can just use the following prebuilt ones from the OSCAR repository: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/branches/branch-4-2/packages/sis/distro/common-rpms/ What

RE: [Sisuite-users] kernel BUG at include/linux/i2o.h:517!

2006-01-15 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] kernel BUG at include/linux/i2o.h:517! Hi Charles: I believe si_prepareclient uses the OS' kernel and generate a compatible initrd.img based on your system. Have you tried using the stock kernel/initrd.img which came with SystemImager's boot-standard package to

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA drives

2006-01-11 Thread Bernard Li
Please provide: SystemImager version Linux distribution version Chances are, SystemImager kernel (2.4 based I'm guessing) recognizes your HD as /dev/hda, but your actual OS detects it as /dev/sda. This is not uncommon with SATA devices. Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Sisuite-users] Problem with image on SATA drives

2006-01-11 Thread Bernard Li
-users] Problem with image on SATA drives On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:20, Bernard Li wrote: Since SystemConfigurator is responsible for setting up grub, I would say yes, upgrade SystemConfigurator. Other folks may have encountered the same thing, there may be some manual steps you can

RE: [Sisuite-users] IA64 questions

2006-01-11 Thread Bernard Li
IA64 should still work, though I have not recently compiled it. The latest stable is 3.6.2, though the code in branch/3.6.x has a bunch of bugfixes which you probably want, so just check out the code from SVN. Once the code is checked out, run: % make source_tarball % rpmbuild -ta

RE: [Sisuite-users] overrides and timing issues

2006-01-09 Thread Bernard Li
You won't be running apache during imaging, the server needs to be rebooted (into the SystemImager kernel) before imaging can occur. Updating is a different story though. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben

RE: [Sisuite-users] overrides and timing issues

2006-01-09 Thread Bernard Li
Hartshorne Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 18:22 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] overrides and timing issues On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:17:21PM -0800, Bernard Li wrote: If you're updating, why wouldn't you just put the override files as the stock files

RE: [Sisuite-users] Grub issues with IBM HS20 Bladecenter

2006-01-09 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Steve: You should have the Java webadmin setup on the blades right? In that case you should be able to see everything on the console. The more console messages you can provide, the easier it is for us to troubleshoot. Other than that, the only other thing I can suggest is run

RE: [Sisuite-users] Grub issues with IBM HS20 Bladecenter

2006-01-07 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Steve: Try this newer version of SystemConfigurator from OSCAR trunk and see if it works for you. Supposedly it fixes some RHEL4 grub-related issues: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/trunk/packages/sis/distro/common-rpms/systemconfigurator-2.2.2-11ef.noarch.rpm Cheers,

RE: [Sisuite-users] Interactive SystemImager installs with CD

2006-01-05 Thread Bernard Li
. Of course it could just be that I haven't had any issues... yet. :-) Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Allen BierbaumSent: Thu 05/01/2006 07:26To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Interactive SystemImager installs with CD Bernard Li wrote: Hi

RE: [Sisuite-users] Interactive SystemImager installs with CD

2006-01-05 Thread Bernard Li
nd up denying the dhcp request and they get no ip. or you can give out for another network, essentially running two subnets over the same wire, and then the poor clients can't route. Trust me...I did this. :) On Jan 5, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Bernard Li wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, b

RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3

2006-01-05 Thread Bernard Li
writeable or not, though. Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Charles GalpinSent: Thu 05/01/2006 13:44To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3 Hu BernardOn Jan 5, 2006, at 12:58 AM, Bernard Li wrote: You can grab

RE: [Sisuite-users] Could not stat device /dev/hda

2006-01-05 Thread Bernard Li
Title: Could not stat device /dev/hda Chances are SystemImager's kernel could not detect your storage adapter. I wouldn't really test SystemImager with laptop hardware if I were you - just test it on some older hardware like PIII or something :-) Also, what version of SystemImager are

RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3

2006-01-05 Thread Bernard Li
@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3 On Jan 5, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Bernard Li wrote: Hi Charles: The RPMs are built on a x86_64 system and thus only generated the x86_64 binaries - you'll need to rebuild the SRPM on a x86 system.Doh! I had completely

RE: [Sisuite-users] Interactive SystemImager installs with CD

2006-01-04 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] Interactive SystemImager installs with CD Hi Allen: You mention that you cannot use a custom DHCP - can you use the _existing_ one then for this purpose? If you go with the "static DHCP" route, you should just need a DHCP server for initial deployment, as the IP

RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3

2006-01-04 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3 If you compile using the source from SVN (branches/3.6.x) and use si_prepareclient, it should generate a working set of binaries. If you're on a Red Hat system, I got some RPMs you could use. In regards to rscync, John may be

RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3

2006-01-04 Thread Bernard Li
ubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Re: no devfs support when using 3.5.3 Hi BernardOn Jan 5, 2006, at 12:32 AM, Bernard Li wrote: If you compile using the source from SVN (branches/3.6.x) and use si_prepareclient, it should generate a working set of binaries. If you're on a Red Hat system, I got some RPMs

RE: [Sisuite-users] No volume group created

2005-12-22 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Andrea: Do you think you can write up a little doc on the wiki about how to use LVM with SystemImager 3.6.x? I think a lot of users will find this helpful! Thanks, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Righi Sent:

RE: [Sisuite-users] Boot failed on autoinstall CD

2005-12-12 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Matt: You might want to give SystemImager 3.5.4 (unstable) a shot and see if that solves your problem. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Larson Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 8:50 To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] bootloader, initial image install problems

2005-12-02 Thread Bernard Li
Did you try the newer version of systemconfigurator which I pointed you to? Cheers, Bernard P.S. You might also consider using a newer version of SystemImager (unstable) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jide OsatuyiSent: Friday, December 02,

RE: [Sisuite-users] Having issues with 3.5.3 in prepareclient

2005-12-02 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Ashley: FYI, this is already fixed in trunk: http://svn.sisuite.org/diff.php?repname=systemimagerpath=%2Ftrunk%2Flib %2FSystemImager%2FUseYourOwnKernel.pmrev=0sc=0 Do you have any other related patches? Thanks, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Sisuite-users] fstab-sync

2005-11-30 Thread Bernard Li
Which version of SystemConfigurator are you using? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jide OsatuyiSent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 5:19To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] fstab-sync Hi

RE: [Sisuite-users] fstab-sync

2005-11-30 Thread Bernard Li
Can you try this one and see if it works? http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/trunk/packages/sis/distro/common-rpms/systemconfigurator-2.2.2-11ef.noarch.rpm Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jide OsatuyiSent: Wednesday,

[Sisuite-users] firstboot scripts

2005-11-30 Thread Bernard Li
Hey guys: I have been throwing around this idea of firstboot scripts for systemimager. Basically the idea is similar to the post-install and pre-install scripts which systemimager currently supports, but instead, these firstboot scripts are only executed when the node is rebooted (for the first

RE: [Sisuite-users] Compiling kernel 2.6 for version 3.4.1 of system Imager

2005-11-22 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Charles: Have you tried the kernel from Peter Mueller to see if it works? http://wiki.sisuite.org/SystemImager Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Galpin Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 9:32 To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] sata_via support

2005-11-18 Thread Bernard Li
Title: RE: [Sisuite-users] sata_via support Try this from Peter Mueller, it might work: http://world.anarchy.com/~peter/systemimager/ Alternatively, you can try the unstable version of SystemImager, 3.5.3, which has better support for SATA hardware. Cheers, Bernard -Original

RE: [Sisuite-users] Compiling kernel 2.6 for version 3.4.1 of system Imager

2005-11-18 Thread Bernard Li
install_initrd and other options and the configure tools tells me Im missing e2fsprogs-dev package which I found nowhere.. :( 2005/11/18, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: that's what we've been using for like 4 months or so. On Friday 18 November 2005 11:51, Bernard Li wrote: Unless you have

RE: [Sisuite-users] using a loop mounted .img file as the client image

2005-11-09 Thread Bernard Li
Title: using a loop mounted .img file as the client image Hey Dan: Can you please file a bug at SourceForge stating the OS you are using and any error messages. I'll try to take a look when I get a chance: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=259atid=100259 Thanks, Bernard

RE: [Sisuite-users] x86_64 kernel/initrd.img

2005-11-03 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Charlie: You can probably extract them from here: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/oscar/trunk/packages/sis/distro/co mmon-rpms/systemimager-x86_64boot-standard-3.5.3-3oscar.noarch.rpm Note that this is for version 3.5.3. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager on Ubuntu

2005-11-02 Thread Bernard Li
@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager on Ubuntu HiOn Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:45:48PM -0800, Bernard Li wrote: You guys want to add some notes in the wiki? [1]http://wiki.sisuite.orgI claim to be an expert in neither sisuite usage nor wiki editing.Please improve if you can:http

RE: [Sisuite-users] IA64 Boot package

2005-11-01 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Dave: You can get the ia64boot-standard if you rebuild the SRPM. Alternatively, if you want to use a newer development version of SystemImager (which we have found to be pretty stable), you can grab the pre-built RPMs here:

RE: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager on Ubuntu

2005-11-01 Thread Bernard Li
Title: Re: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager on Ubuntu You guys want to add some notes in the wiki? http://wiki.sisuite.org Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Jan GroenewaldSent: Tue 01/11/2005 20:55To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users]

RE: [Sisuite-users] kernel panic Systemimager

2005-10-28 Thread Bernard Li
Andres, What OS are you trying to image? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CaƱada.Andres Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:48 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] kernel panic

RE: [Sisuite-users] parted - Error: Can't have the end before thestart!

2005-09-21 Thread Bernard Li
Title: Re: [Sisuite-users] parted - Error: Can't have the end before thestart! Hi John: You can try the systemconfigurator RPM from here - not sure if it'll help with your problem though:

RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA/ x 86_64 kernel : SI 3.5.3

2005-09-20 Thread Bernard Li
I running systemimager 3.5.3 on one cluster. I've 32 bits and 64 bits nodes. Installation on dell 1425 (x86_64) failed with this message : Could not stat device /dev/sda I think this is about SATA disk that are not found . In src/linux-2.6.10/.config the SATA option is ON. You need to

RE: [Sisuite-users] 3.5.3 on gentoo

2005-08-31 Thread Bernard Li
Hi John: If you are booting SIS's kernel/initrd, then this will match up. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jolet Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:42 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

RE: [Sisuite-users] 64-bit imaging

2005-08-29 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] 64-bit imaging Hi John: Which version of SystemImager are you using? The development version 3.5.3 is known to work with x86_64. This has been tested quite thoroughly under Red Hat systems (RHEL3 and RHEL4) - unfortunately I do not have much experience with Gentoo

RE: [Sisuite-users] 64-bit imaging

2005-08-29 Thread Bernard Li
for 3.5.3?We're using gentoo because it seems more efficient and has the most matureand stable 64-bit environment of the major distros.On Monday 29 August 2005 21:59, Bernard Li wrote: Hi John: Which version of SystemImager are you using? The development version 3.5.3 is known to work with x86_64

RE: [Sisuite-users] 64-bit imaging

2005-08-29 Thread Bernard Li
: Re: [Sisuite-users] 64-bit imaging Bernard Li said on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:59:42PM -0700: For our test cases we do use a x86_64 image server to deploy x86_64 images, but I do think it is possible to have a x86 image server to deploy x86_64 images.I use an x86 server to deploy x86_64 images

RE: [Sisuite-users] systemconfigurator --runboot fails (chroot does not see /dev/hda)

2005-08-15 Thread Bernard Li
Title: Re: [Sisuite-users] systemconfigurator --runboot fails (chroot does not see /dev/hda) Hi Jan: You can run dd off the filesystem of the node being imaged, i.e. /a/bin/dd (when it is mounted) I believe dd was included in busybox/BOEL in the latest development release (3.5.3).

RE: [Sisuite-users] systemconfigurator --runboot fails (chroot does not see /dev/hda)

2005-08-15 Thread Bernard Li
Title: Re: [Sisuite-users] systemconfigurator --runboot fails (chroot does not see /dev/hda) Can you post your master script that is re-generated after you run the: mkautoinstallscript --image image --force --post-install reboot command? I think you will have better luck with newer

RE: [Sisuite-users] I can't find systemimager either

2005-08-09 Thread Bernard Li
Perhaps you guys can provide feedback to update the docs? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Mueller Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 15:31 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] I

RE: [Sisuite-users] CentOS 4 / RHEL 4

2005-08-03 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] CentOS 4 / RHEL 4 Isn't that the LVM notation? Do you need to use LVM? Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bobby BrownSent: Tue 02/08/2005 13:38To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [Sisuite-users] CentOS 4 / RHEL 4 Hi,I have CentOS

RE: [Sisuite-users] Fedora Core 4 and gcc 4

2005-07-31 Thread Bernard Li
Do you have access to an older box to build SystemImager? If not then you can try the following unofficial SystemImager RPMs and see if they work under FC4 (I see no reason why they wouldn't, but you never know...)

RE: [Sisuite-users] Acess to svn

2005-07-22 Thread Bernard Li
Please see: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7512457forum_id= 8921 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leandro Tavares Carneiro Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:54 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

RE: [Sisuite-users] AMD64 Success w/ HOWTO

2005-07-19 Thread Bernard Li
Hi: Thanks for writing the HOWTO. Can you please let us know what issues you were encountering with grub? I was able to image RHEL4 on a x86_64 computer with grub as the bootloader. The SystemImager we used should be pretty close to what is in trunk, but possibly with some minor modifications.

RE: [Sisuite-users] AMD64 Success w/ HOWTO

2005-07-19 Thread Bernard Li
if it dies, I verified that it did NOT install any of the boot loader. I over wrote the MBR and re-imaged with the broken client and was unable to boot. When I get a few extra minutes at work I will try and replicate the issue and send more details. Thx, stoermer On 7/19/05, Bernard Li [EMAIL

RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: Sisuite-users digest, Vol 1 #510 - 7 msgs

2005-07-13 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Mark: When systemconfigurator runs, it generates the error the file /boot/grub/stage1 nor read correctly which has had me off on a wild goose chase for 3 days trying to figure out why it's doing that. I even tried upgrading to SI 3.4.1 and that didn't help. I downgraded back to

RE: [Sisuite-users] SystemImager and cciss again, this time with rhel4

2005-07-12 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Mark: Can you change the setting such that after you use SystemImager to deploy your node, it doesn't reboot? In that case you can get a console on the node. Post the contents of /boot/grub/device.map of the node. This should be somewhere in /a. I may have a patch for SystemConfigurator

RE: [Sisuite-users] www.sisuite.org blank

2005-07-08 Thread Bernard Li
For me it re-directs fine to wiki.sisuite.org. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Widyono Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:19 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sisuite-users] www.sisuite.org

RE: [Sisuite-users] FAQ question

2005-07-08 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Dan: You should be able to mount your initrd.img after you decompress it: cp /tftpboot/initrd.img /tmp cd /tmp mv initrd.img initrd.img.z gunzip initrd.img.z mount -o loop initrd.img /mnt Then you can modify the files to your hearts content. After you're done: umount /mnt gzip -9

RE: [Sisuite-users] Adaptec 39320(B) and SystemImager kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Bernard Li
Kevin, can you let Peter know where you got the driver from? It might help with your current issue. Thanks, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Mueller Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 13:52 To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] rhel4, cciss and grub

2005-07-08 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Mark: Which version of SystemImager are you using? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Seger Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 15:19 To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Stephen Grandinetti Subject:

[Sisuite-users] Adaptec 39320(B) and SystemImager kernel

2005-07-07 Thread Bernard Li
with thenewer scsi drivers source code, then replace the old aic79xx.o withthe new one, is it feasible? Anyway, I will try it.)Or, where can I get the prototype tool?Best RegardsKevin ZengOn 7/8/05, Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kevin: The compute nodes are booted by the SystemImager

RE: [Sisuite-users] pxe not getting past DHCPOFFER

2005-07-04 Thread Bernard Li
These are IBM x330's, and they have PXE-booted in the past with much older xcat and sisuite packages (originally installed about 3 years ago), along with redhat 7.2. I'm now using latest sisuite (xcat not yet installed) and RHEL4 clone (Fermi SL4). Hmm, I didn't do any patching

RE: [Sisuite-users] Re: SATA disks with SystemImager

2005-07-01 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] Re: SATA disks with SystemImager Actually there is a way around this... if you mount your initrd.img, there should be a file called /etc/init.d/rcS - just comment the line which reads "check_version" and it should bypass the check. Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL

RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA disks with SystemImager

2005-06-30 Thread Bernard Li
To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sisuite-users] SATA disks with SystemImager In http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7592971 forum_id=10334 Bernard Li wrote: Did you have any experience with using SystemImager 3.5.2 (CVS/SVN) and SATA HDs? I tried

RE: [Sisuite-users] fedora core 4

2005-06-29 Thread Bernard Li
systemimager-3.5.2 or the cvs version. Using lilo with a fedora core 4, I succeed to create an image, even to boot but when I try to log in, it always fails, giving me : login : permission denied. Quoting Bernard Li [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi: I assume that besides SystemImager, you are using

RE: [Sisuite-users] fedora core 4

2005-06-25 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Ole: Did you have any experience with using SystemImager 3.5.2 (CVS/SVN) and SATA HDs? Thanks, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ole Holm Nielsen Sent: Thu 23/06/2005 12:25 AM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Sisuite-users] fedora core 4

2005-06-22 Thread Bernard Li
Hi: I assume that besides SystemImager, you are using SystemConfigurator as well? I have the same problem with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - the current work around is to use lilo instead of grub. Or you can downgrade the grub RPM which came with Fedora Core 4 with the one from Fedora Core 3 (on

RE: [Sisuite-users] si_mkbootdiskett filling up

2005-06-17 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Marc: Try making a CD instead of a floppy - I believe the newer kernels cannot fit in a floppy. Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Cozzi Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 10:56 To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] si_mkbootdiskett filling up

2005-06-17 Thread Bernard Li
-matic boot disks. Or even older versions of SI boot disks.. If I could find something close to the 3c905b-txnm cards? Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bernard Li Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 1:10 PM To: sisuite-users

RE: [Sisuite-users] What I did was ugly, but it is working

2005-06-07 Thread Bernard Li
-EP/STEP Suporte Tecnico de EP Av Chile, 65 sala 1501 EDISE - Rio de Janeiro / RJ Tel: (0xx21) 3224-1427 Bernard Li wrote: Have looked at the code in CVS? A lot has changed since 3.5.1 was released. I strongly urge you to try it out and if it still has issues. If it does, please

RE: [Sisuite-users] HOWTO: Using Systemimager with Redhat RHEL 4.0

2005-06-07 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Ole: Thanks for writing the guide! As I've mentioned in my previous email, I actually got it working with an older version of SystemImager but with lilo (grub doesn't work). I would appreciate if you can try it out - just to confirm that it does work with older versions of SystemImager.

RE: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)

2005-06-02 Thread Bernard Li
Hey Ole: I appreciate your help ! After a lot of experimentation, and working interactively on the cloned client at the end of the SI installation, I'm now firmly convinced that Systemimager v3.4.1 as delivered by the RPM packages on http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemimager/ *does not

RE: [Sisuite-users] Need to add an HBA driver

2005-06-01 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Greg: Do you know which official kernel version contains that HBA driver? Using a newer kernel in place of the one which shipped with SystemImager and re-compiling the binaries may be one way to go about it. Cheers, Bernard From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Sisuite-users] Need to add an HBA driver

2005-06-01 Thread Bernard Li
email and delete the original message. "Bernard Li" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/01/200

RE: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)

2005-05-30 Thread Bernard Li
with grub-install? Cheers, Bernard From: Ole Holm Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Mon 30/05/2005 12:51 AMTo: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.netCc: Bernard LiSubject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0) "Bernard Li" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

RE: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)

2005-05-30 Thread Bernard Li
Okay it seems that you are using SystemConfigurator 2.2.2 already ;-) BTW, do you have etc/systemconfig/systemconfig.conf in your image? If so, what does it look like? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Li

RE: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)

2005-05-28 Thread Bernard Li
Title: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0) Hi Ole: Do you use SystemConfigurator along side SystemImager? One thing you can try is modify autoinstallscript.conf and add: boel devstyle="devfs" / right before the config block ends (right before

RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

2005-05-19 Thread Bernard Li
Title: SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750 You can try to re-compile the binaries but with a newer version of parted (1.6.17 seems to work). You need to download the tarball and put it in the src directory and also modify make.d/parted.rul to reflect the updated version. Re-compile and it

RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

2005-05-19 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Peter and others: Would it make sense to create a repository to store all the known working kernels for different hardware? It would be good for users to be able to go to a webpage and download specific kernels that are known to work for their hardware. Not sure if it should show up in the

RE: [Sisuite-users] SATA support in Dell Power Edge 750

2005-05-19 Thread Bernard Li
SI has a wiki?! Yup - http://wiki.sisuite.org/. Hosting in one place is a good idea; if you'd like I can host yours on my page. Yours is for version 3.2.3 with separate boel_binaries (bernard's own embedded linux :P) ? I'm not sure if my version is very useful, I would imagine that yours

RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

2005-05-11 Thread Bernard Li
it into ~si/src. - put my .config in the right place (http://world.anarchy.com/~peter/systemimager/linux.i386.config) - build through SI's 'make kernel'. Regards, P -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard Li Sent

RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

2005-05-11 Thread Bernard Li
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bernard Li Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:43 PM To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out Hi Peter: I'll try it out tonight - thanks. BTW, did you apply the libata patches when

RE: [Sisuite-users] New SATA/SCSI/e1000/bcm5700 kernel out

2005-05-10 Thread Bernard Li
Hi Peter: I'll try it out tonight - thanks. BTW, did you apply the libata patches when you build the kernel? Cheers, Bernard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Mueller Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 17:23 To:

RE: [Sisuite-users] kernel config for kernel_e1000_bcm5700_sata

2005-05-03 Thread Bernard Li
Title: Message Hi Peter: Thanks for providing the config! I am trying to re-compile the binaries with a newer version of parted and possibly a newer version of the kernel. It would help if you can let us know which OS you were using when you compiled the kernel (distro and kernel version).

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