| Installing new machines for the IWI in 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
 | Part XV. Specific to RuG |  |
| Installing new machines for the IWI in 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
| | Part XV. Specific to RuG | |
September 2007
Changing BIOS settings
Under Storage->Boot order: Put "Hard drive, integrated SATA" on top, followed by "Network Controller". Disabled all other (CD-ROM and USB)
Under Storage -> Storage Options: Disabled Removable Media Boot and Legacy Diskette Drive. Set "SATA Emulation" to "RAID"
Under Advanced -> Power-On options: Set Post Messages to Enable. Set MEBx Setup Prompt to Displayed Set After Power Loss to Previous State
Under Advanced -> Onboard Devices: Set "Diskette Controller" to Disable.
Left all other settings as they were, most notably under Advanced -> Device Options: left S5 Wake on LAN at "Enable"
Saved changes and Exit
Put the machine in the DHCP config
The NIC fails to be detected.
According to an Ubuntu forum thread, the Intel e1000 driver is too old. Fetched a new one here, and put it on a machine with the same kernel as the install we are running (that is demanded in the README of the driver). Unpacked, compiled.
On the install server, copied the initrd.gz to a temp directory, unpacked it, created a directory 'ramdisk', cd into it and dit cpio -i < ../initrd
Copied the new e1000.ko over the old ramdisk/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko.
In ramdisk, did
find . | cpio -o -H newc > ../initrd
then cd .. and
gzip -9 initrd
Copied the new initrd to the tftp tree, restarted the master's tftp daemon
Copied the amd64 tftp subtree to the local tftp server (for speed)
Updated /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf:
if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 3) = "d-i"
{
filename "ftp://master.grid.rug.nl/d-i/grid-preseed-iwi.txt" ;
}
Restarted the DHCP daemon, and restarted the client
Installation starts...
Install does not complete
We get the error “No root file system (is defined)”