rsh & GRUB/lilo strangeness

[Paul English]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Thomas Lange wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 10:00:49 -0800 (PST), Paul English <tallpaul at speakeasy.org> said:
> 
>     > rsh -l fai faiserver   failed.
>     > I tried to replicate this command in the shell window, and it could not 
>     > figure out the hostname. Then I put "faiserver" as the name of my fai 
>     > install server in /etc/hosts in the nfs install image and it shows up on 
> 
> Use the variable $NFSROOT_ETC_HOSTS in make-fai-nfsroot.conf for this.

That fixed the name resolution, but the rsh still fails (presumably 
because it wants a password)

>     > rsh -l fai 10.10.10.34 
>     > it prompts me for a password immediately. It is almost like /etc/hosts is 
>     > being ignored. I'm not sure where it is supposed to get the value for 
>     > faiserver from if not /etc/hosts.
> 
>     > It appears not to be fully working anyway, since I don't think it is 
>     > supposed to be asking for a password. (based on the fact that there is a 
>     > .rhosts file in user fai's home directory)
> The .rhosts must not be readable by other users. Do a chmod go-wrx .rhosts
> 

It is not. 

>     > This then generates a new GRUB error, even though I told the client to 
>     > install LILO instead of GRUB (I was having problems with GRUB previously, 
>     > but noone responded about that one). The GRUB error is:
> 
>     > Grub loading stage 1.5.
> 
> Is a kernel installed into the new system? Have a look at shell.log.
> How does the /tmp/target/boot/grub/menu.lst looks like (before you
> reboot the install client? Did you add the class MBR? This isntalls
> the boot loader into the master boot record. Otherwiese the boot
> loader is only in the boot partition and maybe an old mbr is used.

It would appear that the kernel is not installed. The GRUB error must be 
left over from a previous install, since it *is* running lilo. It is just 
that /vmlinuz is a symlink that points to a file which does not exist.

Prior to running lilo, there is an error message in shell.log which shows 
"Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.4.24-2-386"

And it tells me to use apt-get update. Presumably what I actually need to 
do is make sure that the proper file is in my debian mirror, although I 
think it is:

/files/scratch/debmirror/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.24-2-386_2.4.24-2woody.1_i386.deb

Paul