Posts made by Damian

[quote=“Damian, post: 4743, member: 1299”]Hi,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately when I decompress the image and go to /tmp/tmpMnt/lib/ there is no udev directory so there are no udev scripts. Maybe I’m missing something… maybe I’m supposed to create the udev scripts…?

Also, if I run a find in /tmp/tmpMnt/ and grep for udev or firmware nothing is returned.

Can you provide a little more direction if you know the answer?

Thanks
Damian[/quote]

I booted the system and I’m on the system now. If I find from the root I still don’t find udev but I DO find firmware. This is good.

Hi,

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately when I decompress the image and go to /tmp/tmpMnt/lib/ there is no udev directory so there are no udev scripts. Maybe I’m missing something… maybe I’m supposed to create the udev scripts…?

Also, if I run a find in /tmp/tmpMnt/ and grep for udev or firmware nothing is returned.

Can you provide a little more direction if you know the answer?

Thanks
Damian

Hey,

Thanks for the response. I bailed on the server for the time being. In some of the other work I’ve been doing I found that including other modules into the image is pretty easy. I just needed to run

/opt/fog/utils/Boot Image Editor/FogMountBootImage.sh

This should let me place the modules that I need (once I identify them) into the image so they are available when fog loads. I haven’t tried it yet but when I do I will come back and update this thread.

Thanks
Damian

Hi,

I’m trying to image a Dell Poweredge 2950 which uses a broadcom nic. When the fog system loads on the 2950 I get an error message which reads:

[CODE]can’t load the firmware file bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw[/CODE]

I did a little investigation and I found that this is a common problem for this card with debian installations as the firmware is non-free and was removed. There was a decent guide that explained where to get the firmware and that it was to be placed in /lib/firmware.

I did some more investigation and discovered the Boot Image Editor script which makes editing and repacking the boot image a snap. I ran the script, placed the firmware in the appropriate location using Nautilus, then exited the script. This gave me a new init.gz which I placed in /tftpboot/fog/images. Unfortunately I’m still seeing the same error message.

Does anybody know where I’m supposed to place this firmware. It seems like such a simple thing but I can’t quite figure it out.

Thanks
Damian

Hi all,

We’ve got fog up and running happily for our enterprise but I’m having trouble imaging one of our servers. Despite a reference to our raid card in the “working hardware” section of the wiki, I can’t seem to get the thing to show me any hard disks.

I rebuilt the kernel including support for the mtpsas devices as it appears that this is what I need to do. Also, if I boot a live linux (Ubuntu 10.04) it recognizes the disks and doesn’t seem to have a problem.

The best I can figure is that there is a kernel module being loaded dynamically by the live linux that isn’t available in the source that I’m building. Does anybody have any experience with this card or server? Also, is there any way to get dynamic modules to be loaded by the target machine that is being backed up. Can I send a kernel module along with the bzImage and then instruct the system to load it (modprobe)?