#24 /dev/[cciss,rd,ida], grub & label mounts

[dann frazier]

I think i've got bugs SI 639221 & 639216 mostly licked.
I was able to get through the partition/file copy
sections, but the install
failed when trying to install grub w/ SC.

here's a transcribed copy of the error:

Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a
long time.
ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv
hdc: driver not present
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
df: Warning: cannot read table of mounted filesystems
: Not found or not a block device.
WARNING: Label / not found anywhere on the system! at
/usr/lib/systemconfig/Boo\t/Grub.pm line 207
readline() on closed filehandle Boot::Label::IN at
/usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/L\abel.pm line 84.
Couldn't find grub root at
/usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot.pm line 87

Couldn't find grub root at
/usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot.pm line 87

Error: None of hte following bootloaders were
successfully setup on your system\:
YaBoot,Iseries,EFI,Elilo,Lilo,Grub,Palo

however, SI seems to have labelled it properly:
# chroot /a e2label /dev/ida/c0d0p1
/
#

i'm using the SC 2.0.3-1 rpms.
if i explicitly specify the root device in
/etc/systemimager/autoinstallscript.conf & regen a
master script, things work fine all the way through reboot.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi

As indicated by Ian Braithwaite and dann frazier,
post-install needs a mtab file on a client during boot phase
and
manually creating a suitable /etc/mtab file on the server
can solve
temporarily this problem (chroot /a/ /sbin/grub-install
works fine
after to do that)

But also (I am working with Rehhat 8.0

Post-install with systemconfigurator-2.0.5 fail when the
network
client try to configure grub may be due to LABEL indication
in
/etc/fstab.

I have this error:

Could not find device for /boot:Not found or not a block
devices
WARNING= LABEL / not found anywhere on the system!
at /usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Grub.pm line 207
readline() on closed filehandle IN at
/usr/lib/systemconfig/Boot/Label.pm line 84

Grub.pm--------------------------------------------------
sub find_grub_root {
207 my $fstab = Boot::Label::fstab_struct("/etc/fstab");
Label.pm------------------------------------------------

sub fstab_struct {
my $file = shift;
my $struct;
my %labels;
84 open(IN,"<$file") or (carp ("Couldn't open $file for
reading"),
return undef);
while(<IN>) {
# get rid of starting spaces
s/^\s+//;
--------------------------------------------------------
Here you will find /etc/fstab used

images/linuxdrk/etc/fstab file on the server
LABEL=/ / ext3
defaults
1 1
LABEL=/home /home ext3
defaults
1 2
LABEL=/opt /opt ext3
defaults
1 2
none /dev/pts devpts
gid=5,mode=620
0 0
none /proc proc
defaults
0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs
defaults
0 0
LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3
defaults
1 2
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3
defaults
1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3
defaults
1 2
/dev/rd/c0d1p2 swap swap
defaults
0 0

thanks for your help