config questions

[Bjorn Meyer]

Unfortunately, now I am unable to successfully run fai-setup -v.
I wanted to do a reinstall so that I knew what steps I took to get a
running install. That didn't work so well.
I get the following as the last few lines before aborting.

Shadow passwords are now on.
rm: cannot remove `dev/MAKEDEV': No such file or directory
Aborting
Removing `local diversion of /sbin/discover-modprobe to
/sbin/discover-modprobe.distrib'



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Alex Volkov <avolkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 10:49 -0600, Bjorn Meyer wrote:
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Bjorn Meyer <bjorn.m.meyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I am as sure as what I have seen in the logs. I do agree, that
>> > something didn't complete correctly. However that is is little odd
>> > since it works fine if I just take out the /boot partition and let it
>> > install to /.
>> >
>> > I will try another install and check this before I reboot. If it is
>> > wrong, I will try to edit and see what the results are.
>> >
>> > Thanks for pointing that out. I did dig through that a bit, but
>> > skipped right over that one.
>> >
>> > Bjorn
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Eymen Alyaz <alyaz at ins.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> >> Bjorn Meyer schrieb:
>> >>> ...
>> >>> Here are the 2 kernel entries that it creates.
>> >>>
>> >>> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-6-686
>> >>> root            (hd0,0)
>> >>> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
>> >>> initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.18-6-686
>> >>
>> >> according to your parition layout, the kernel line should look like:
>> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/hda2, not /dev/hda5.
>> >> because you partitioned with:
>> >>
>> >> (look at your first mail)
>> >> disk_config disk1
>> >> primary     /boot     100     defaults     ;boot -j ext3
>> >> primary     /         1024    defaults     ;-c -j ext3
>> >> #logical     /         1024    defaults     ;-c -j ext3
>> >> logical     swap      500
>> >>
>> I tried again, and the menu list is being set up correctly. With the
>> above config, it is being set to hda2.
>> If I set / to be logical it is being set to hda5.
>> My apologies, I may have pasted this incorrectly.
>>
>> >> are you sure grub is properly installed?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Eymen Alyaz
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
> Maybe grub setup script did not run properly. Check that a
> file /srv/fai/config/files/boot/grub/menu.lst/postinst
> contains something like the following:
> ########################################
> #! /bin/bash
>
> error=0 ; trap "error=$((error|1))" ERR
>
> set -a
>
> # during softupdate use this file
> [ -r $target/var/log/fai/disk_var.sh ] && .
> $target/var/log/fai/disk_var.sh
>
> # if class NOMBR is defined, write boot loader into root partition, not
> into mbr
> ifclass NOMBR && BOOT_DEVICE=$BOOT_PARTITION
>
> grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=$target $BOOT_DEVICE
> GROOT=$(device2grub $BOOT_PARTITION)
> perl -pi -e 's/#(\w+)#/$ENV{$1}/' $2
> $ROOTCMD /usr/sbin/update-grub
> echo "Grub installed on $BOOT_DEVICE on $GROOT"
>
> exit $error
> ###################################################
> and its permissions are set to executable. I had similar problems
> booting into the new system, when I accidentally deleted the file.
>
>
> Alex.
>
>
>