Problem in finding hard disks

Lorenzo Campo lorenzo118 at interfree.it
Wed Nov 16 18:56:47 CET 2005


Thank you very much, I'll try it as soon as possible.

Pedro Ferreira ha scritto:
> 
> 
> On 11/16/05, *Lorenzo Campo* <lorenzo118 at interfree.it 
> <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>> wrote:
> 
>     I have too, so configurations should be ok. So, probably the problem
>     is in some other
>     configuration file...
> 
>     Pedro Ferreira ha scritto:
>      > I have the following line in the /etc/fai/fai.conf
>      >
>      > KERNELPACKAGE="/usr/lib/fai/kernel/kernel-
>     image-2.6.8-fai_1_i386.deb"
>      >
>      > On 11/16/05, *Lorenzo Campo* < lorenzo118 at interfree.it
>     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>
>      > <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it
>     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi,
>      >     yes, I have such a configuration file, and I have an image of
>     kernel
>      >     2.6 (that supports SATA
>      >     disks), but I don't know where I have to put this image
>     inside the
>      >     FAI path to make FAI itself
>      >     use it at the boot of the client. Could you tell me what is the
>      >     exact path?
>      >     Thank you.
>      >
>      >     Pedro Ferreira ha scritto:
>      >      > Hello
>      >      >
>      >      > In your disck config you should have
>      >      > the following
>      >      >
>      >      > disk_config sda
>      >      > primary  /             1000-4000    
>     rw,errors=remount-ro   ;-c
>      >     -j ext3
>      >      > logical  /var          5000-6000    
>     rw                     ; -m
>      >     5  -j ext3
>      >      > logical  /tmp          5000-6000    
>     rw                     ;-m 0
>      >     -j ext3
>      >      > logical  /srv         10000-        
>     rw                     ;-m 0
>      >     -j ext3
>      >      >
>      >      > and you must get or compile a kernel that supports the
>     SATA devices
>      >      > I compiled my own, if you want i can send it to you
>      >      >
>      >      > On 11/16/05, *Lorenzo Campo* < lorenzo118 at interfree.it
>     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>
>      >     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>>
>      >      > <mailto: lorenzo118 at interfree.it
>     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>
>      >     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it
>     <mailto:lorenzo118 at interfree.it>>>> wrote:
>      >      >
>      >      >     I passed the problem, obviously <nfsroot>/etc/hosts was
>      >     completely
>      >      >     wrong (don't know why),
>      >      >     anyway I corrected it and installation proceeded. Now I've
>      >     another
>      >      >     problem with disks. It says
>      >      >     that can't find any hard disk:
>      >      >
>      >      >     Disk probe:
>      >      >     Disk found:
>      >      >
>      >      >     Can't find /dev/sda
>      >      >
>      >      >     I've a possible cause for this: I have SATA disks on
>     any node, so
>      >      >     maybe it's loading the wrong
>      >      >     kernel (2.4 and not 2.6). I specified in fai.conf to
>     load 2.6
>      >     image,
>      >      >     but maybe there was a
>      >      >     problem somewhere, so: where is the kernel image that
>     FAI uses at
>      >      >     the boot?
>      >      >     If this is not the problem, there is some issue about
>      >     not-detected
>      >      >     hard-disks by FAI?
>      >      >     Thank you very much for your help!
>      >      >     Lorenzo
>      >      >
>      >      >
>      >      >
>      >      >
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