Hi Jiri,
may this will help a little:
We had also the same problem some time ago, when we installed our
SE (with SCSI disks). I think the best solution is:
Change to PXE installation of the machines, because
in this case you only have to prepare 1 kernel with SCSI support
compiled into and use this kernel during installation. Once the
install is ready you can boot from PXE or from local-hd the
installed kernel will find it's modules.
thus,
1.) Prepare a kernel with SCSI support compiled into.
2.) Use this kernel in the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/lcfg-install-WhateverYouUse file.
In this case you do not have to copy the kernel which support SCSI to all the diskette.
For as it works.
Is there any objection of using PXE boot ?
cheers,
Gergely
> Hello,
>
> I have problems when installing my LCG-1 nodes. After I reboot any of the
> nodes with installation diskette, network gets configured thourgh DHCP,
> then I select that I want to install ... and then
>
> [DEBUG] install: Calling fstab preparedisks /root .
> ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
> modpprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file
> /lib/modules/2.4.18-18.7.x-cern/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
> hda: driver not present
> LCFG object fstab: hackparts failed - fdiskOpenDevice: [and here is
> something I can't read, because there is FAILED written over it :)]
> LCFG object install: install method failed
>
> When I scroll up through the messages kernel gives upon boot, I can see
> that it doesn't detect our SCSI disk controller (LSILogic 53c1010-33, and
> when I look to
> http://datagrid.in2p3.fr/distribution/datagrid/wp4/edg-lcfg/packages/external/diskettes/RH73/dot.config
> (I suppose that this is the .config of the .img file I am using) I see
> that
>
> # CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX_2 is not set
> CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=m
>
> Which may be problem for me.
>
> So I have two questions:
> 1) Is the above error really caused by not detected disk controller?
> 2) What is the fastest and the most efficient way to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for your advices.
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> Institute of physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic
>
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