I'd love to run all my local.cfg options in the kernel boot params. Anyone got any docs or examples I could use? I am right now testing upgrading to 3.7.5.

-John

John D. Beck, CCNA, RSA CSA & CSIE, Sys Admin / Security Engineer
Global Science and Technology (GST)
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Andrea Righi wrote:
OK... I should read all the mails before starting to reply... :-) anyway
if I remember well there was a bug in the --append option with
si_mkautoinstallcd, the fix was introduced in 3.7.3 (so the bug is
surely resolved in 3.7.5). Maybe this is the reason because you need to
type the ramdisk_size parameter at the boot prompt.

Regarding the floppy, why don't you define all the local.cfg options in
the kernel boot parameters with the --append option? (obviously only if
you're using a release >= 3.7.3).

Regards,
-Andrea

John Beck wrote:
OK I got passed this issue by issuing "linux ramdisk_size=100000" at the
boot prompt, for some reason this isn't working when I use
si_mkautobootcd append command.

It totally skips over my local.cfg on the floppy.
It's looking for ext2 or ext3 on the floppy, is there something I need
to do to use a fat formatted floppy disk?

Thanks,
-John

John Beck wrote:
I'm having trouble, and I think it's probably a RAM disk issue. I've
tried making the ramdisk larger using --append  "vga=extended
initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=200000" with
si_mkautoinstallcd. I also tried to set it in
/etc/systemimager/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg by adding:
tempfs_size=200M

I create the image with si_preparecleint
I get the image with si_getimage --golden-client
I then make the boot cd for the image:

si_mkautoinstallcd --kernel
/var/lib/systemimager/images/rh2/etc/systemimager/b
oot/kernel --initrd
/var/lib/systemimager/images/rh2/etc/systemimager/boot/initr
d.img --append "vga=extended initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram
ramdisk_size=200000
" --out-file /var/lib/systemimager/rh2.iso

I boot from the cd created from rh2.iso and I use a floppy with this
local.cfg:

#local.cfg on floppy
 HOSTNAME=rh2
 DOMAINNAME=unixsamurai.com
 DEVICE=eth0
 IPADDR=192.168.1.243
 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
 NETWORK=192.168.1.0
 BROADCAST=192.168.1..255
 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
 GATEWAYDEV=eth0
 IMAGESERVER=192.168.1.242
 IMAGENAME=rh2

but no matter what I get this error:

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 16777216
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
attempt to access beyond end of device
ram0: rw=0, want=32776, limit=32768
EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode
block - inode
289, block=16387
Warning: unable to open an initial console.

Am i missing a step or setting a parameter incorrectly?

Thanks,
-John



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