On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Ben Waugh wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Traylen wrote:
> > It uses the same host as the DHCP server unless you specify
> > nextserver in the dhcpd.conf.
>
> There is a "nextserver" in the dhcpd.conf pointing to pc15.hep.ucl.ac.uk,
> which is the LCFGng server. I am using all the same hardware as I did for
> EDG, and the only changes I have made are to the LCFG files on the LCFGng
> server. Perhaps I should reinstall the server from scratch? I haven't done
> this in moving from EDG to LCG, just replaced the configuration files and
> downloaded new RPMs.
>
> > Checking /var/log/messages on the NFS server is the way to check for
> > requests. The obtained network parameters do also appear in the kernel
> > messages though they do of course whizz past.
Hi Ben,
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.
Steve
>
> There are no mount requests in /var/log/messages from when I used the new
> iso, so as you say this is even worse.
>
> > Is this different hardware to what you used for EDG? At this very early
> > stage of the install then everything is identical until after the kernel init
> > script has been executed which is you are failing before reaching.
>
> Is it failing before reaching that step, or on reaching it? Is the "unable
> to open initial console" part of the same problem? And where should it
> find the init script? Is that on the install disk or in the nginstallroot
> filesystem?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
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