mk2efs fails (followup on reboot after part.)

[Bjørn Kastnes]

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.
I found the behaviour  very suspicious so I tried another client 
machine. To my suprise it booted immediated and completed the 
installation, and the grub menu came up on reboot.
It didn't boot though, but guess I have to install a kernel to get any 
further.
At least these problems gave me a insight of FAI internals  through the 
debugging process.
Will try your debugging tips the next time.

Regards
Bjørn Kastnes
 

Holger Levsen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  
>
>>This is an followup on my posting "Reboots after partitioning".
>>
>>I investigated the problem a bit further and found that the first call 
>>mke2fs never returns, instead the machine reboots. The call to mke2fs 
>>looks like this:
>>       mke2fs -q -c /dev/sda1
>>    
>>
>
>can you run this command on another console on the client e.g. switch
>with alt+f2 to another console, run the command. What happens ?
>
>  
>
>>My software:
>> fai 2.5.4
>> fai-kernels 1.6 i386
>> kernel 2.4.24
>> debian stable with updates
>>
>>My  setup is using PXE-boot, and the partitioning is defined as follows
>>
>>disk_config sda
>>
>>primary  /fai-boot      16    rw,errors=remount-ro     ; -j ext3 -c
>>primary  /              512    rw,errors=remount-ro     ; -j ext3 -c
>>logical  swap           1024                             
>>logical  /var           2024    rw                       ; -m 5 -j ext3
>>logical  /usr           4096    rw            ; -j ext3
>>logical  /usr/local     4096    rw            ; -j ext3
>>logical  /tmp           512    rw,nosuid            ; -j ext3 -m 1
>>logical  /home        2096    rw,nosuid        ; -j ext3 -m 0
>>logical  /files/scratch 0-    rw,nosuid        ; -j ext3 -i 50000 -m 1
>>
>>Any suggestions ?
>>    
>>
>
>Turn debugging on and post the results ;)
>FAI_FLASGS=verbose,debug,createvt
>
>Turn debugging on in NFSROOT/sbin/setup_harddisks
>(/usr/lib/fai/sbin/setup_harddisks).
>
>
>regards,
>	Holger
>
>  
>
>>Regards
>>Bjørn Kastnes
>>    
>>