Help! Could not find kernel image: perca-localboot

Holger Levsen hl at hbt.de
Tue Apr 6 11:31:54 CEST 2004


Hi,

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 01:03, Eric Björkvall wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've set up a fai-server and I'm able to boot clients, installation 
> seams to work allright but
> when the klient is trying to boot with it's own kernel I get the 
> following error:
> Could not find kernel image: perca-localboot
> 
> 
> 
> Configuration:
> I copied the class "demo" to /usr/local/share/fai/class/perca
> Server is esox (running sarge): nfs, dhcpd, rsh are working. Client are 
> booting with pxe - ran fai-chboot -BIv perca
> 
> sources.list:
> 	deb file:/mnt2/debian sarge main contrib non-free
> 	#deb file:/mnt2/debian sarge-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
> 	deb file:/mnt2/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
> 	#deb file:/mnt2/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> The error log (/home/fai/perca/last-install/error.log) looks like this:
> 
> dmesg.log:cdrom: open failed.
> rcS.log:Can't connect daemon on esox. Monitoring disabled.
> rcS.log:WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the 
> installation list: gnome-users-guide gnome-help-data
> rcS.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No such 
> file or directory)
> rcS.log:ERROR: 25600 25600
> rcS.log:DEFAULT/S01          FAILED with exit code 1.
> rcS.log:NETWORK/S40          FAILED with exit code 1.
> rcS.log:rcp: /tmp/target/boot/vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory
> rcS.log:rcp: /tmp/target/boot/initrd.img-*: No such file or directory
> shell.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No such 
> file or directory)
> shell.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No such 
> file or directory)
> shell.log:E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.4.24-2-386
> shell.log:ftar died with error: No directory /fai/files//etc/cron.d
> shell.log:DEFAULT/S01          FAILED with exit code 1.
> shell.log:ls: vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory
> shell.log:ls: /tmp/target/boot/vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory
> shell.log:Can't match device: /dev/root
> shell.log:NETWORK/S40          FAILED with exit code 1.
> shell.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ Packages 
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No such 
> file or directory)
> software.log:WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the 
> installation list: gnome-users-guide gnome-help-data
> software.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ 
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No 
> such file or directory)
> software.log:ERROR: 25600 25600
> status.log:DEFAULT/S01          FAILED with exit code 1.
> status.log:NETWORK/S40          FAILED with exit code 1.
> updatebase.log:  File not found
> updatebase.log:Failed to fetch file:/fai/files/packages/Packages.gz  
> File not found
> updatebase.log:E: Some index files failed to download, they have been 
> ignored, or old ones used instead.
> updatebase.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ 
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No 
> such file or directory)
> updatebase.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ 
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No 
> such file or directory)
> updatebase.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ 
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No 
> such file or directory)
> updatebase.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ 
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No 
> such file or directory)
> updatebase.log:W: Couldn't stat source package list file: packages/ 
> Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/_fai_files_packages_Packages) - stat (2 No 
> such file or directory)
> 
> 
> Any help is very appreciated!

Are you using woody or testing ? Which fai version do you use ? Could
you please post your fai.conf and the FAI_CONFIGDIR/class/*.var where 
kernel image=perca-localboot is defined ?

Looks like the kernel-image-debian-package can't get installed, have a
look a shell.log.


regards,
	Holger

> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------
> Eric Björkvall
> --------------------------------------------
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