Hi Ben,
I used the old edg installation disk and everything worked great.
The only problem was that the default ram disk size is not large enough
and the install barfs early on.
The way I found to correct this was to edit the grub.conf on the
installation disk as follows:
default 0
timeout 5
splashimage=(fd0)/boot/grub/splash_edg.xpm.gz
title RedHat 7.3 [2.4.20-20.7] - LCFGng Installation
root (fd0)
kernel (fd0)/kernelboot-2.4.20-20.7 root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=/opt/local/linux/nginstallroot/7.3 init=/etc/rc_install ip=dhcp ramdisk_size=32768
title RedHat 7.3 [2.4.20-20.7] - LCFGng Installation [WARNING: no
confirm!]
root (fd0)
kernel (fd0)/kernelboot-2.4.20-20.7 root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=/opt/local/linux/nginstallroot/7.3 init=/etc/rc_install ip=dhcp nointeract=yes
ramdisk_size=32768
Note the extra kernel parameter 'ramdisk_size=32768'. This fixed
everything for me.
Matt.
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Ben Waugh wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:47:09 +0100
> From: Ben Waugh <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: LCG2 installation problem
>
> Hello again,
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Steve Traylen wrote:
> > Thinking about this again is the init script actually there,
> > /opt/local/linux/updaterpms/7.3/etc/rc_install
> > on the LCFG server. This may due to the kernel i586/i686 thing you
> > reported earlier.
>
> Is there a way round this without too much hacking of the installroot
> script?
>
> Also, what disk image should I actually be using to boot and install the
> nodes? Apart from the one you provided, I have been using the same one I
> used for EDG. Should this be OK or is there a different version for LCG? I
> assumed all the changes would be in the profiles rather than in the boot
> disk. The LCFGng server install notes in LCG-2_0_0 only describe PXE
> booting.
>
> Ben
>
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