Hi Matt,
Thanks. I'll try that, but I think first I might have to shuffle parts a
bit to get a machine with an i686 architecture and a large enough disk to
use as a LCFG server.
Cheers,
Ben
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Matt Robinson wrote:
> 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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