Re: [OSR-users] rpms for ocfs2+rhel5

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 00:35:26 Dan Magenheimer wrote:
> OK, I've finished the howto, trying to reasonably substitute
> where necessary for the fact that I am going to boot the
> osr as a xen guest (running 2.6.28 as the guest kernel).
>
> Note that I am running the howto in a Xen EL5 guest booted
> with 2.6.28 and with an ocfs2 filesystem mounted in the
> guest as a second disk "/extra"... so wherever I see
> /mnt/newroot, I am substituting /extra.
That should not be a problem. BTW. I also made the howto for nodes running in 
XEN with EL5. So that should fit.
>
> All seems to go smoothly until I get to the last step...
> the mkinitrd complains loudly and lengthy.  It can't find
> a list of rpms and skips:
> - comoonics-cs-xml
> - kmod-gfs
> - gfs-utils
> - cman
> - openais
> - lvm2-cluster
> - OpenIPMI-tools
> - xen
> - xen-libs
> - libvirt
You can ignore those. These are only warnings (I don't like them either and 
they will go away in the future) for rpms not to be found. Most are related 
to GFS and RedHat Cluster or xen Dom0. You can siltently ignore then.
>
> Then the /boot disk fills and I get cpio errors.  It appears
> that an intird...img.tmp file is created that is 78MB in size.
Yes. It might be that the boot disk is too small. A workaround would be to 
first create the initrd in /tmp. I.e mkinitrd /tmp/initrd_sr... and then 
copy/move it to boot. I've done this whenever the bootdisk was too small.
>
> Oh dear... it also looks like the grub part of the howto has
> changed /boot/grub on my running system, not on the /extra
> disk?!  And now I can't boot that guest anymore at all!
Yes, the bootdisk normally resides on a special disk and therefore must be 
handled specially. See above for a workaround.
>
> When I have a chance, I will restart with a fresh EL5u2
> guest and document every step from the beginning, but
> if you see any obvious solutions, please let me know.
If possible let the /boot be 1G.

Regards
Marc.
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Marc Grimme
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