Hi. I wanted to say that the exact same advice helped me too (used Asus image for Tyan server).
Thanks, Stas. 2008/2/25, Shariq Minhas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > That did the trick! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shariq Minhas > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: sisuite-users > Subject: RE: [sisuite-users] Kernel Panic EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > CentOS5 and Perc5i > > Thanks. I'll try this out and let everyone know how it worked. > > ________________________________________ > From: Andrea Righi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 2:50 PM > To: Shariq Minhas > Cc: sisuite-users > Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Kernel Panic EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock > CentOS5 and Perc5i > > Shariq Minhas wrote: > > It is different hardware and I though that might be the issue since the > client to be issued is a newer Dell server. However, I did not use the > --my-modules option when creating the golden client image and when I try to > use the same CentOS5 kernel to image the client from scratch, it works fine. > > If you need to image clients with different hardware it's correct to not > use --my-modules, this is only to save some space when you have identical > clients. > > > > > I'm curious, do the contents of the /dev directory from the golden client > also get copied over to the client being imaged? > > > > It depends, look at the devstyle in autoinstallscript.conf. If > devstyle="udev" (as it should be with centos5), then the /dev files are > not copied, since the opportune device files will be created dynamically > at run-time by udev. Static /dev is only for old kernels / old distro > that doesn't use udev. > > BTW, to fix your problem try to define a post-install script like the > following (see /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/post-install/README for > details): > > --- > #!/bin/sh > rm -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img > mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img 2.6.18-8.el5 > --- > > Be sure to use the same kernel version you've in your image. > > This will simply re-create the initrd at the end of the imaging, and it > should include all the needed modules, also the module to properly > recognize the disk. Actually, this should work with totally > heterogeneous clients. > > -Andrea > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users