From: Ole Holm Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 30/05/2005 2:50 AM
To: Bernard Li
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Cloned clients won't boot from harddisk (Redhat RHEL 4.0)
Hi Bernard,
That's a nice observation, since FC3 and RHEL
4.0 ought to be rather
similar ! When SI 3.4.1 installs my RHEL 4.0
client, the master
script executes "systemconfigurator" which gives this
error message
twice:
df: Warning: Cannot read table of
mounted filesystems
This is caused by /etc/mtab being an empty file at this
stage.
The "df" command (I believe) is executed by grub-install which
is
called by systemconfigurator in /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm
line
97.
Also, some weird messages are printed by
systemconfigurator:
Boot::EFI Line 90: config_file has
been set to /boot/efi/elilo.conf
Boot::EFI Line 98:
bootloader_exe has been set to
Boot::EFI Line 102:
bootmenu_exe has been set to
The only problem is that EFI isn't installed on
this client...
FYI, systemconfigurator is installed from the RPM version
2.2.2-1.
The client's /boot/grub/ directory contains corrupted
files
(/boot/grub/stage1 is only 512 bytes...) after the
systemconfigurator command
has been run. I think that
systemconfigurator has a problem with Grub
as used in
RHEL 4.0. I have not been able to get this to work,
not
even with your suggestion of using devfs in
autoinstallscript.conf
:-(
> RHEL4 doesn't use devfs, it uses udev, however, using this
method, I was
> able to use SystemImager with Fedora Core 3, which uses
udev.
>
> Perhaps you can post the error messages associated
with grub-install?
Thanks, Ole
