Final steps...

[Lorenzo Campo]

Hi,
I copied class/20-hwdetect.source in my class directory and now it recognize disks and completes 
succesfully, but... it doesn't work! If I reset without any change (that is, keeping LAN as 1st 
boot device) it tries again to get messages by DHCP but it fails sayng it can't find linux 
kernel. If I reset by putting Hard disk as 1st boot device, it halts by just saying "error in 
loading operating system" like if the hard disk is empty. So, maybe I didn't understand the 
whole procedure: as I understood FAI boot the node on a ramdisk, download an archive that 
contains everything is contained in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot (on the master) and untar it, then it 
copies it (after a formattin according to disk_setup) on the hard-disk creating a little 
operating system, then it download every other package it needs by the local debian mirror I 
created on the master. Is this sequence correct? If not, there is something elsedI have to do (I 
can't find anything useful on the manual...)?
Thank you for your help!
Lorenzo

Michael Tautschnig ha scritto:
>>Hi,
>>after some unsuccesful attempt to recompile the kernel, I managed to put 
>>the "debug=1" flag into fai-setup and tried to use the standard .deb 
>> package of fai kernel 2.6.8. It produces following lines, in the end:
>>
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> [...]
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>>I attach the whole fai.log file, I hope you can have some hint on what went 
>>wrong. By the way, I checked the .config of this kernel (fai 2.6.8) and it 
>>seems the support for SATA disks is ok, so why there is this "+ die 
>>'setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh file.'" error?
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> [...]
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> Did you copy your initial config from the beowulf-example? If this is true,
> please copy class/20-hwdetect.source from the simple-example to include hardware
> detection; most of the drivers are compiled as modules and must thus be loaded,
> which is done by that script.
> 
> HTH,
> Michael