I'm a newbie to FAI, and have been experimenting with the fai-2.8.4 and fai-kernels-1.10.1 packages for the past few days. I did rebuild the 2.6.14 kernel to include the Fusion MPT drivers for the SCSI controller used by the Dell 1855 blade that I'm using for testing.
One thing I've noticed is that after I run either fai-setup or make-fai-nfsroot, the /dev/sd* disk devices are not created in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/dev. I have to go in and do a manual 'MAKEDEV sda' to create them. If I don't do that and proceed with the install, FAI stops at the setup_harddisks point when it can't find any disk devices to work with. I've scoured the documentation, searched the mailing list archives and Google, but to no avail. Can anyone explain what's going on with this? I have some additional questions as well, and will put them in separate messages. Thanks.