[...] > > On a machine running a stock Debian kernel 2.6.18 (with etch) > edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > and change to these lines > > MODULES=netboot > BOOT=nfs > I doubt that you really need these, actually I did not change my initramfs.conf and it still works.
> then mkinitamfs -o fai-initrd. This creates the initrd for net booting. > Copy the the kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 and fai-initrd to /srv/fai/tftp > In pxelinux.cfg/ use this file: > If you don't change initramfs.conf, you don't even need to run mkinitramfs ... - just copied over the kernel and the initrd that was already there. > label fai-generated > kernel vmlinuz-2.6.18-3.686 > append initrd=fai-initrd ip=dhcp > FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://kueppers/usr/local/share/cs-etch FAI_ACTION=install > root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=134.95.9.149:/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot-etch,v2,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 > FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt > For the sake of completeness, I'm using the following pxelinux.cfg/default: label fai-generated kernel vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-486 append ip=dhcp devfs=nomount FAI_ACTION=install root=/dev/nfs FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd initrd=initrd.img-2.6.17-2-486 nfsroot=192.168.248.29:/srv/fai/nfsroot Actually one shouldn't need the additional nfsroot=..., if it is already provided by DHCP; however some versions of initramfs-tools seem to be buggy (and I don't know whether it got fixed already) and fail to parse the DHCP results. Best, Michael
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