FAI install hangs on endless "scrolling screen" with kernel 2.6

[P.S.S.Camp]

I have this problem with 2.6 its random, I installed and a fai kernel with
the hangcheck module enabled and then loaded this in a hook, so if the
install wedged it would just reboot the box, and try again, I I was
building a cluster of headless machines.  I suspect its a grub kernel
interaction problem? are you using SATA by any chance?


Is there any chance this could go in the hangcheck module could be put
into the standard fai kernel build?

Phill.


On Wed, 25 May 2005, Henning Sprang wrote:

> Hy,
> I already had this error some time ago, but forgot to report ist here.
>
> I am just installing a new machine with FAI, so I am using a brand new
> disk config.
>
> When using kernel 2.6, the installation keeps hanging on the disk config
> task, and the screen has an endless scrolling in the area where the log
> is shown otherwise (the banner is still intact) with something with the
> words "boot" and "block" which i cannot quite read.
>
> When i had it some time ago, I could solve it by making the /boot
> partition ext2 instead of ext3, the trouble just goes away then.
>
> I did not try it for another reason, but as far as i know, this doesn't
> happen with Kernel 2.4
>
> Does anybody have an idea what this is about? I mean, I do not
> neccessarily need ext3 for /boot, but it's annoying not even to know
> what it is.
>
> Please let me know if you want/need to see some logfiles, but as far as
> i can remember, when i had the trouble before, there wasn't any hint
> there, even when i wrote a special script and changed the fai rcS script
> to write logs more often to the logserver while installing, not only
> when install was finished. The solution just came by accident, or
> because i was so despaired that changing the fs type for /boot was a not
> very hopeful but the last possible idea.
>
> Henning
>
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