Difficulties installing on ich7 chipset motherboard

[Jan Marquardt]

Hi,

we also had a problem with installing ICH7-boxes by FAI. As far as i can 
remember the problem only appears when installing on SATA devices. This 
problem was solved by adding ata_piix to the line

2.6*) kernelmodules="$kernelmodules usbhid usbmouse ide-generic ata_piix

at /usr/local/share/fai/class/20-hwdetect.source

Regards,

Jan


John Allman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using fai (2.10) on ubuntu dapper. The fai clients are using kernel
> 2.6.15 provided by the fai-kernels package (version 1.10.3ubuntu2)
> 
> The setup i have seems to be fine as it works perfectly on other
> machines. This appears to be a problem specific to this machine.
> 
> The install goes well until it reaches the disk partitioning section.
> Then i see the following:
> 
> Calling task_partition
> Partitioning local harddisks
> setup_harddisks version 0.38fai
> Probing disks:
> Disks found:
> 
> Using config file: /fai/disk_config/FAIBASE
> Mapping disk name disk1 to
> ERROR: could not read device /dev/
> setup_harddisks version 0.38fai
> Probing disks:
> Disks found:
> 
> Using config file: /fai/disk_config/FAIBASE
> Mapping disk name disk1 to
> cp: cannot stat `/var/log/fai/current/disk_var.sh': No such file or
> directory
> setup_harddisks did not create /var/log/fai/current/disk_var.sh file.
> 
> The blank device names lead me to look at /proc/partitions which appears
> to be used by fai to decide which device to install on. /proc/partitions
> is empty on this machine:
> 
> root at miri:~#cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
> 
> In dmesg i see the following error:
> 
> root at miri:~# dmesg|tail
> usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse
> drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
> Probing IDE interface ide1...
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.04
> Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
> Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.04
> ACPI: bus type scsi registered
> libata version 1.20 loaded.
> Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
> 
> I'm guessing this is some kind of kernel problem with this specific
> hardware. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
>