On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 09:49:09PM +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > however, installations always stopped prior to mounting the NFSroot with > "mount.nfs: Protocol not supported". It seems that one needs to manually > add the kernel drivers nfsv{2,3,4} among others when using a kernel 3.6 > or later *or* upgrade to a much newer dracut than the one in wheezy > (020) [2]. > > A simple backport of the current 034 version from jessie works fine as well.
As live-boot seems to resolve the "multiple interfaces with DHCP" issue, I haven't migrated to dracut (yet). It turns out that, to install the current sid/jessie kernel (3.11-1), it's sufficient to also upgrade the initramfs-tools (to 0.110 or higher, Wheezy is at 0.109). No backport needed at all. Checking the initrd contents, I found all the nfsv[234] modules, as well as aufs and other stuff. Hopefully that's all that's needed to get FAI running even with newer kernels. (Of course, one has to provide the linux-image and initramfs-tools packages for installation.) > Hopefully this will help others to save some time ;) It would have saved even more time if there wasn't a new Intel eth i/f every week... - S