On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:00:51PM -0500, Jason Knudsen wrote: > Hello John, > > Would be helpful if you could explain some more about udev and your > theory... perhaps you could present some proof of concept tests for the > rest of us? Would be greatly appreciated if you knew a simple way of > performing this kind of operation.
Hi Jason, I was operating on an incorrect assumption: that systemimager would use, for its installer, the kernel and initrd that was configured on the client. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be the case, and I don't know why. systemimager's generated initrd seems to include only the modules necessary for that particular machine. This is different than Debian's initrd, which can -- depending on configuration -- include all possible modules for filesystems and disks. Enough to get root mounted and load the remaining modules. Also, it seems that the documentation is wrong about needing the exact same hardware. I notice that your standard boot image is doing some form of hardware autodection, which is nice. Though it is an old kernel, and doesn't include all the needed SCSI drivers for different environments. So, if the generated disk could use the system's initrd, that would help me out a lot. About udev... It looks like the documentation may be outdated on this as well. I can't get SCSI working yet due to the driver issue, but I've seen some references in your code to fixing up the disk drive in /etc/fstab to point to the detected install disk name. So that's good and would render udev unnecessary. I'd also like to point out that the docs on the website are apparently rather old, several versions ago. That tripped me up for awhile, until I realized the Debian packages were newer and shipped newer docs. -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
