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Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 21:14 Post subject: bug after boot of client

hye all,

i test the distribution M23, i manage to boot the client by network, the server detect the configuration of the client...but when i try to partitionate the disk, the client said

"cant locate blok-major-33"

and it stop it :(

do you know where does it comes ?

thanks for informations Smile

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

Is the harddisk of the client detected correctly?

Are the client information in the web interface ok?

What kind of harddisk are you using (SCSI, IDE, size, etc.)?
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Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 16:12 Post subject:

all disks tested were IDE, size of 3 Gb or more,

and the client information means OK.

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 20:02 Post subject:

the real error message is :

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

Do you see the right partition size under

Clients overview -> Control center -> Hardware information ?

If not there was an error detecting the client's harddisk.

This seems to indicate such a problem:

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 22:31 Post subject:

when i go in Hardware information, the CPU, mainboard etc.. is corectly detected, but none information on the hard disk or partition sizes.

i tested to install on differents clients on IDE, with VMware or others, and it's all time the same problem Sad

, i don't understand why i have this bug :(

if anyone have an idea... thanks Wink

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

Do you need a special IDE controler driver?

What m23 version are you using?

Did you try other Linux distibutions (e.g. Knoppix www.knoppix.de) on the client? Is the harddisk detected correctly there?

Is the harddisk ok? Is it detected by the BIOS?
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Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 13:22 Post subject:

i use the last version of M23,

and the hardware is correctly detected when i use knoppix on live-cd and when i installed debian on my computer :(

in the bios no problem, is't rightly detected. Sad

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

Can you post the output of "lsmod" after booting from the Knoppix CD please?

The problem could be the 2.4 kernel of the m23 netbootimage. Maybe your IDE controler needs the 2.6 kernel.
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Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 14:04 Post subject:

okay,

for the moment i test to boot on a vmware client, but when i tried on others computers, the hardware was detected correctly, hard disk also, and i tested with kernels 2.4 or 2.6, at all time the installation was without problem.

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

Can you post the output of "lsmod" after booting from the Knoppix CD please?
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Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 15:34 Post subject:

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

The line shows that "piix" is the driver for your IDE controler.

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 18:37 Post subject:

I tried to make this actions but i meet a problem, i succeeded to do this :

# Open a console on the server
# execute
Code:
/mdk/bin/menuStart

# choose "clientISO"
# choose "kernel"
# choose "Download", "V2.4"
# select a kernel
# wait until the kernel is downloaded and extracted
# choose "ConfigureOld"
# choose "m23-bootimage-linux-2.4.28.conf"

and when i want to choose the m23-bootimage-linux-2.4.28.conf , i have a error message who said :

rm : cannot remove tmp/kernelconfigFilem233035 : no such file or directory
cp : cannot create regular file mdk/bootimage/kernel/linux-2.4.8/.config
chdir : error retrieving current directory : getcwd : cannot access parent directory

what significates ?
and whats commands i have got to do for burn the image ?

Hauke · Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 1072

The MDK scripts are far away from being perfect Cool

It seems you have chosen a really old kernel.