Dell PowerEdge R200
Revision as of 19:04, 11 July 2009 by Ericgearhart (talk | contribs)
For this server several things have to be done to FOG for image upload and image deploy to work
- Kernel 2.6.29 (included in FOG .26) apparently has a bug in its tg3 driver. See tg3 for details on the kernel to downgrade back to
- On image deploy, I had to edit FOG's init.gz (see Modifying the Init Image for details) and add a "-m" option to the deploy section where partimage is called (edit bin/fog and scroll down towards the end of the script).
For some reason, when the R200 PXE boots, it mounts the PXE filsystem root (init.gz) on /dev/sdb3, but also the drives to image to appear as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. Partimage thinks that the filesystem it's about to drop an image on is already mounted. Adding '-m' tells Partimage to not care if the filesystem is already mounted.
After these two tweaks I am able to image and deploy to about 20 R200 servers (running CentOS and RHEL version 5.3)
