no kernel installed on client so it refuses booting ... a little more

[Gerald Houart]

a little more about the problem:
grub works fine but without kernel installed it makes kernel panic message

looking log files of FAI installation (especially rcS.log and shell.log) i found :
====rcS.log =====================================================
.
.
Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686_2.6.8-3_i386.deb) ..
.


You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.6.8-1-686)
This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use
initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial
Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for
booting).

   As a reminder, in order to configure LILO, you need
   to add an 'initrd=/initrd.img' to the image=/vmlinuz
   stanza of your /etc/lilo.conf

I repeat, You need to configure your boot loader -- please read your
bootloader documentation for details on how to add initrd images.

If you have already done so, and you wish to get rid of this message,
please put
  "do_initrd = Yes"
in /etc/kernel-img.conf. Note that this is optional, but if you do not,
you will continue to see this message whenever you install a kernel
image using initrd.
Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]Ok, Aborting
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686_2.6.
8-3_i386.deb (
--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
.
.
====rcS.log =====================================================

and

====shell.log =====================================================
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Get:1 ftp://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 2.4.27-2 [12.3MB]
Fetched 12.3MB in 34s (355kB/s)
(Reading database ... 10001 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 (from .../kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686_2.4.
27-2_i386.deb)
 ...
Setting up kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 (2.4.27-2) ...
/initrd.img does not exist. Installing from scratch, eh?
Or maybe you don't want a symbolic link here. Hmm? Lets See.
.
.
====shell.log =====================================================


i putted "do_initrd = Yes" in fai/files/etc/kernel-img.conf/DEFAULT but without results

after install i can install kernel manually in a shell with 
  chroot /tmp/target mount -t proc none proc
  chroot /tmp/target apt-get install kernel-image...
  chroot /tmp/target update-grub

and so it boots !!!

any other suggestions are welcome

best regards

Gerald HOUART

>>>>>> On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:40:17 +0200, Gerald Houart <ghouart at ulb.ac.be> said:
>
>    > i use fai installed with sarge ... and everything based on the example
>    > "simple"
>    > but after all the process of installation, grub refuses to boot linux
>    > and in fact in /boot there is no kernel !!!
>
>    > any suggestion to resolve this probably stupid problem (but so stupid
>    > that i can't see where it is !)
>Read the the log files!!!
>
>I think you did not define the classes MBR and GRUB or no kernel is
>installed at all. Have a special look at shell.log.
>
>-- 
>regards Thomas
>
>

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