Yes, I finally went into the fstab and grub.conf on my golden client and removed the references to the UUID stuff and replaced them with /dev/sda and /dev/sdb devices as appropriate. That seemed to take care of the grub-install problems I was seeing but the system is still not booting after the install has finished. -- Steven DuChene
-----Original Message----- From: Tristam MacDonald Sent: Jul 13, 2011 8:59 PM To: "Steven A. DuChene" , sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [sisuite-users] Not seeing boel messages on serial console On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Steven A. DuChene < linux-clust...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > The following messages about grub appear in the console log file: > > 2011-7-13 15:7:36 [Boot::Grub :: Line 132] grub supports --no-floppy > argument. > 2011-7-13 15:7:36 [Boot::Grub :: Line 107] Grub executable set to: > /sbin/grub-install. > 2011-7-13 15:7:36 [Boot::Grub :: Line 151] bootloader = /sbin/grub-install > 2011-7-13 15:7:36 [Boot::Grub :: Line 338] mount: /boot > 2011-7-13 15:7:36 [Boot::Grub :: Line 338] mount: / > 2011-7-13 15:7:36 [Boot::Grub :: Line 368] calling /sbin/grub-install > --no-floppy --recheck UUID=0b8f2f84-5a03-4a80-b853-a624d496e5e7 > > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > Format of install_device not recognized. > > INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. > > > Has anyone seen this before? Is there someway I can eliminate > this --recheck option from being used with grub-install? > Or is it that grub just does not like the > "UUID=0b8f2f84-5a03-4a80-b853-a624d496e5e7" device it is given? > > If I could figure out where the call was being made I would try > to fix it. I tried inserting a hard-coded grub-install line into > a couple of different places in the autoinstall master script > but it seems no matter where I put ti the script complains that > the path is not correct (it cannot find the executable). > -- > Steven DuChene My understanding is that the UUIDs are specific to a particular device. In other words, unless you are imaging to the machine which served as the golden client, the UUID will not match the device, and the grub install will fail. You can work around this by disabling the use of UUIDs by your OS. That generally means editing your /etc/fstab to replace UUIDs with device paths, and editing your /etc/default/grub to disable UUID support. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math & CS Department ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users