Install nodes with re-configured kernel image

[Gavin Tran]

Hi Brian,

Could you give me more details about what you've done to get custom
kernel working on clients.

Thank you

On 1/17/06, Brian Showalter <bshowalter at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> --- Brian Showalter <bshowalter at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > 4. For the new system's kernel I need to go back to the kernel
> > source, set CONFIG_ROOT_NFS to "N" and compile it into a fresh .deb
>
> I'm happy to report that I've finally been successful at getting a
> customized kernel to install and boot on the client machine.
> Creating two separate kernels - one for the initial FAI boot with a
> NFS root and another for post-install client booting without a NFS
> root - was the key to this whole thing.  However, I did run into one
> glitch with step #4 when I did the first post-install boot using the
> second kernel.  Turned out that the configuration in the fai-kernels
> packages sets up the ext3 and ide* drivers as modules rather than
> compiling them into the kernel as is necessary when the root
> filesystem is on those devices, and I continued to get kernel panics
> until I finally realized what was going on and compiled a new client
> kernel with the drivers built in.
>
> I've written up a pretty detailed summary of all this in case
> anyone's interested in the gory details.  If so, just let me know.
>
> Many thanks to everyone who helped me figure all this out!  :)
>
>


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Gavin Tran

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