Re: upgrade FAI 2.10.2 to FAI 3

2007-04-16 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
the nfsroot - it's the TFTP server, and, yes, tftpd-hpa has been doing this for quite some time (I'm running three nfsroots for different architectures) Cheers, Steffen (ATM doing the opposite: serving an etch amd64 nfsroot from a sarge i386 machine :-) -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI

Re: Overloaded server

2007-06-22 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:08:14PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:42:40 +0200, Steffen Grunewald [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: yesterday I tried to FAI setup about 600 nodes using one file/webserver. Wow. Did you start them all at once? Or with some time (how long

Re: [Fwd: Re: BIOS]

2007-08-09 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:45:43AM +0200, Carsten Aulbert wrote: We are currently looking into the package offered here: http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/index.html That's the 32-bit version of WatTCP, isn't it? I couldn't get a proper documentation (and a binary build!) when I last looked... If

Re: Configuration Management and Monitoring of a Debian Etch Beowulf Cluster

2007-08-31 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
provide equal monitoring recovery capability (in terms of response time). What's your take on either of them? Thanks beforehand to anyone sharing their experience. Although it's not exactly FAI related, you might have a look at Gluster: http://www.gluster.org Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI

Re: configuration to boot from network card

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:15:14PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:59:32 +0100, antares atlantide [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/srv/fai/nfsroot/bin# dpkg -l | grep fai ii fai-client3.2.1

FAI install over serial console, manual interventions?

2008-04-21 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
to interrupt FAI's operation and open a shell? Last time I tried ^C, I directly went into rebooting :( Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald

Re: Need simulate apt-get with backports

2008-05-30 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
) Of course this means that you have to resolve dependencies properly, and perhaps host a lot more packages. S -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald

cfagent script replaces with empty string?

2009-06-30 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
suggestions? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org

cfagent 2.2.8 doesn't behave ...

2009-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
... as cfengine 2.1.20 did. In particular, I'm constantly running into problems when using ^ to denote a start-of-line, and I've also seen strange behaviour when it comes to variable substitutions (with definitions made in the environment). Is this a known problem? bugs.debian.org isn't very

Re: cfagent 2.2.8 doesn't behave ...

2009-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: ... as cfengine 2.1.20 did. In particular, I'm constantly running into problems when using ^ to denote a start-of-line, and I've also seen strange behaviour when it comes to variable substitutions (with definitions made

Create FAI NFSroot for i386 arch on amd64 host?

2009-07-02 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Is it possible (without setting up a i386 chroot) to create a i386 nfsroot for FAI, on a amd64 machine? Cheers, Steffen

Re: Create FAI NFSroot for i386 arch on amd64 host?

2009-07-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:11:47PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Steffen Grunewald wrote: Is it possible (without setting up a i386 chroot) to create a i386 nfsroot for FAI, on a amd64 machine? I did not try that, but as far as I lknow, debootstrap has an option to explictly

differences between setup_harddisks and setup-storage

2009-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
... intentionally? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http://www.gnu.org

grub issues during FAI install

2009-07-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
) should be used? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http

instsoft hangs, same place for multiple nodes

2010-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
before Get:257 :( No changes made to the FAI configuration space. Any ideas? S -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am M�hlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233

Re: instsoft hangs, same place for multiple nodes

2010-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:01:06PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 12:42:34 +0100, Steffen Grunewald steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de said: This time, all 5 nodes get stuck in the same place: # tail fai.log Get:248 http://10.100.200.98 lenny/main rstatd 4.0.1-3

Re: setup-storage: Cannot determine size of /dev/cciss/c1d0 - scheme unknown

2010-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
+)?$}) Seems to make more sense? Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am M�hlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * http://pandora.aei.mpg.de/merlin/ * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de * +49-331-567-{fon:7233,fax:7298} No Word/PPT mails - http

Re: setup-storage: Cannot determine size of /dev/cciss/c1d0 - scheme unknown

2010-05-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:42:00PM +0200, Mathieu Alorent wrote: Are you sure ? $2 will then contains p1 or p2... instead of just the number ! You're right, but what sense would it make to a second digit from the d part then? S

$MAXPACKAGES

2010-12-16 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
In the past few days, I had (after some additions to the mirrors) to reinstall a couple of nodes, and all of them stopped dead after downloading 390 packages. MAXPACKAGES, in FAIBASE.var, was set to 200. Reducing MAXPACKAGES to 150 resulted in package counts going up to 324, but the installation

Re: $MAXPACKAGES

2010-12-16 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:23:03PM +0200, Toomas Tamm wrote: You can move the apt cache to a NFS-mounted disk with enough space. A gigabit ethernet connection is highly recommended. Also, only one installation may be in progress at any given time: the install cache is shared

Additional checks in sysinfo?

2011-11-10 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
.) Is there something I can check for so the corresponding code will be run only in sysinfo mode? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin * - * http://www.aei.mpg.de/ * e-mail: steffen.grunewald

Re: clone an example client?

2011-12-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Use debtree to identify the leaf packages so you don't have to put all and everything into the package list. Identify the files (supposedly mainly in /etc) which have been modified during or after installation, and convert them into a fcopy-able tree. S -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys

Re: gpt-bios from setup-storage - does it really work?

2011-12-20 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 01:37:24PM +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi I'm trying to partition a machine with the following disk configuration: disk_config /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600050e0f065*[A-Z0-9_][A-Z0-9_][A-Z0-9_] fstabkey:uuid disklabel:gpt-bios bootable:1 primary /boot 256

Re: NIS client installation with FAI

2012-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
fcopy -BMi /var/yp/Makefile ##not needed? fcopy -BMi /usr/local/bin/passwd BTW, /target should better read ${target} to allow softupdates... fi I hope this will someday help someone install nis via class;). Regards, Katarzyna Myrek -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am

fai-guide for 4.0.3?

2012-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
The fai-doc packages on jenkins and in the official wheezy repositories still contain documentation for 3.0.6 - will this be changed? I'm not aware of a corresponding bug files against fai-doc... S -- Steffen Grunewald * MPI Grav.Phys.(AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam Cluster Admin

Re: Subject: Wheezy nfsroot / FAI 4.0.3

2012-08-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:51:01AM +0200, Bjarne Bertilsson wrote: live-boot3.0(~a35-1) is broken on wheezy. If you run ipconfig in the initramfs shell the network will properly come up. There is a bug report on this somewhere but weren't able to find it just now with a quick search. I fixed

Re: wheezy fai sysinfo reboots without reboot flag

2012-08-14 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Mathieu Alorent wrote: Le 13/08/2012 21:33, Thomas Neumann a écrit : On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:14:19 -0500 Brian Krothbpkr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm testing fai+wheezy (4.0.3) and have a client setup to pxeboot to a sysinfo without the reboot

Re: Subject: Wheezy nfsroot / FAI 4.0.3

2012-08-20 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 05:55:37PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:47:17 +0200, Andreas B. Mundt andi.mu...@web.de said: After that, things started working. However, fai fails with No URL defined for config space ... I guess you did not defined FAI_CONFIG_SRC

Re: Subject: Wheezy nfsroot / FAI 4.0.3

2012-08-21 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 04:17:06PM +0200, Sven Ulland wrote: On 08/20/2012 04:07 PM, Brian Kroth wrote: All that said, I still had to apply this patch to get the aufs mounting order stuff to work out correctly: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681579 I worked around this by

IPMI problem with FAI and wheezy

2012-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, I'm at my wits' end now with this old system, perhaps one of you can come up with another idea: The hardware is somewhat old, SuperMicro H8SSL board with IPMI card (BMC) looped into eth0 (Broadcom Tigon3). Excerpts from the demsg file: [0.00] Linux version 3.2.0-3-amd64 (Debian

Re: install to usb mass storage

2013-03-13 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:32:26AM +0100, Natxo Asenjo wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:00:03 +0100, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com said: Kickstarting centos works to usb mass storage, FAI stops.

Re: Setup-storage use space between partitions

2013-05-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 05:16:16PM +0200, Steven Wend wrote: Hello guys, I have only one hdd which hast three partitions as shown below. - | 1. NTFS part | 2. NTFS part | 2. NTFS part | -

Re: Setup-storage use space between partitions

2013-05-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:39:01AM +0200, Steven Wend wrote: Hello Steffen, thanks for your answer. First I had to update my picture: - | 1. NTFS part | 2. NTFS part | 3. NTFS part | |PRIMARY |PRIMARY|PRIMARY |

Re: Installing fai-server Without isc-dhcp-server

2013-07-11 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 09:51:16PM -0400, n43w79 wrote: Q. Is there a way NOT to install isc-dhcp-server as I already have dnsmasq on our network. Install it, but leave it unconfigured if there's a dnsmasq running somewhere else? S

Re: Using a newer kernel (than wheezy) and dracut

2013-11-05 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
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

Re: fai ssh logs

2013-12-04 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 02:26:14PM +0100, linux-service.be bvba wrote: Maybe it's my own fault, but do I always have to rebuild nfsroot after a change in the config space? No. Use the FAI_CONFIG_SRC variable in your PXE file like this: FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/faiconfig.xyz -

Select package version in package_config?

2014-01-20 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
identified, I'd like to set the version for all 5 grub* packages to 1.99-27+deb7u2 explicitly (or, to cover the chance of the Wheezy package being updated again, to 2.0) - is this possible within FAI? - S -- Steffen Grunewald * Cluster Admin * steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de MPI f. Gravitationsphysik

Re: Select package version in package_config?

2014-02-14 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 13:03:42 +0100, Steffen Grunewald steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de said: Until the reason of the grub problem has been identified, I'd like to set the version for all 5 grub* packages to 1.99-27+deb7u2

XFS with external log partition?

2014-03-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Has anyone setup a (big) xfs using an external log partition, with FAI - and would like to share the disk_config? Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald * Cluster Admin * steffen.grunewald(*)aei.mpg.de MPI f. Gravitationsphysik (AEI) * Am Mühlenberg 1, D-14476 Potsdam http://www.aei.mpg.de

Re: No atapi cdrom found

2014-12-22 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:30:23PM +0100, Thierry Ranson wrote: The thing is I've already installed the same kernel with the same cdrom (ide cdrom I just add when I need to since I don't need it after install) . The mother board was different though... ^

Re: install FAI on a special machine

2015-07-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:45:25AM +0200, Thierry Granier wrote: Hello i need your help one more time please! i have a machine (master) running Debian 8 with a lot of new packages installed and a lot of updates on all the packages. this master has 2 disks : one for / and swap (all

Re: installing to a wiped disk

2015-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:09:52AM -0500, John G Heim wrote: I am using disklabel:gpt to create a GPT style partition table. You can also use disklabel:msdos to make the old style partition table. This belongs on your disk_config line before you specify partitions, file systems, etc.

Re: installing to a wiped disk

2015-07-10 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:47:49AM -0500, John G Heim wrote: I have some machines that will PXE boot if the hard disk is not bootable. Usually, I make that so by writing zeros to the first million blocks. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=100. [Note, I know that a million blocks is way

Multiple NFSROOTs (Jessie, Stretch) with FAI 5

2016-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hello, after a long time I'm back to setting up FAI, this time for both Jessie and Stretch clients (and an old Wheezy setup will have to be merged so no multiple DHCP servers are around). I'm following the version 5.0 instructions from the FAI Guide, section "Setup your faiserver" and found a

Not reboot/halt after successful installation

2016-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
sendmon "TASKEND faiend 0" /usr/lib/fai/subroutines in a jessie nfsroot seems not to check the size of error.log (nor can I find a mention of error.log in any other place). Is the

Re: FAI 5.1.2 grub problem

2016-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 13:16:58 +0300, "Hannu T. Pysäys" wrote: > Hi, > > > I have a grub problem (Debian 8.5 / FAI 5.1.2) , GRUB_PC always fails with > following code: > > GRUB_PC/10-setup FAILED with exit code 1. > Can you provide me pointers where to start look this issue? What about

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 15:51:06 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Apparently I have killed a working nfsroot by naively running "apt-get > upgrade". > What's the canonical way to keep a nfsroot updated? Would it be sufficient > to "hold" the dracut* packages so t

Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Apparently I have killed a working nfsroot by naively running "apt-get upgrade". What's the canonical way to keep a nfsroot updated? Would it be sufficient to "hold" the dracut* packages so their postinst scripts don't fail? Thanks, S -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Admi

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 16:08:57 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:05:04 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > from scratch. I'm running into Debian bug #830229 now (jessie/koeln, &

Re: Canonical way to upgrade an existing nfsroot?

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 17:17:44 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:13:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > I found that you have created a backport for jessie but don't >

NIC1 not set in /usr/lib/fai/subroutines

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
I'm getting a warning from FAI 5.1.2 for jessie, when running "sysinfo": /usr/lib/fai/subroutines: line 813: /sys/class/net//address: No such file or directory It turns out that $NIC1 doesn't get set. Since everything else still works, this isn't alarming, but annoying. - S

Re: NIC1 not set in /usr/lib/fai/subroutines

2016-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 11:15:29 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 10:22:28 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > I'm getting a warning from FAI 5.1.2 for jessie, when running "sy

Fai 5.1.2 jessie -> stretch regression (netcat missing)

2016-09-09 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
an.org/debian stretch/main amd64 dracut-config-generic all 044+109-1 [6002 B] Get:28 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 dracut-network all 044+109-1 [48.3 kB] Get:62 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 dracut all 044+109-1 [7770 B] - actually no packages are fetched fr

add debconf lines to existing setup?

2016-12-01 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
/debconf/confmodule apparently doesn't work (and db_set therefore cannot be used). Do I have to install debconf-utils and use debconf-set-selections, or is there a faster way? Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein

Re: How to select specific version for Debian distribution and packages.

2017-07-13 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 15:26:50 +0200, Giorgio Buffa wrote: > Hello list. > I would like to install Debian Jessie on my PC. Is it possible to configure > FAI in order to install the same version of kernel and packages as the ones > provided in Debian 8.0.0 DVDs? > > In general: is it possible to

Re: R: How to select specific version for Debian distribution and packages.

2017-07-13 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 15:40:35 +0200, Giorgio Buffa wrote: > Hi Steffen. > I need to be able to automatically re-create the exact system (OS and > configuration) provided to my customer. The documentation says the system > must be Debian v8.0.0. That's the reason behind my request. Your customer

Re: Alternatives in package_lists?

2018-04-27 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 21:20:44 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:34:23 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > Is it possible to specify "a | b" in a package_config

Alternatives in package_lists?

2018-04-26 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
re available - and in this specific case, there is no "conflict" between them - depending on the repositories involved. Of course I could try this myself... :/ Thanks, S -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Insti

Re: /tmp read-only? FAI 5.5, Stretch, NFSv3

2018-01-17 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 14:21:42 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:09:03 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > after running several sysinfo FAI_ACTIONs with jessie setups (and &qu

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 13:12:24 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:40:16 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > 1. Is it possible to map "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:11.4-

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 14:19:24 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:09:49 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > Thanks. Since the "find" command returns an unsorted list,

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-19 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 18:21:03 +0100, Robert Markula wrote: > Am 18.01.2018 um 14:19 schrieb Thomas Lange: > > I guess it would be fine if you could publish your zfs hooks here on > > the list. Others may be interested in them. > > Yes, that would be nice. My impression is that nextgen fault

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-21 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 16:23:03 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:08:32 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > Talking about "path" - is there a trick to get mult

Re: FAI setup for BeeGFS with ZFS, Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 10:05:09 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:03:04 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > Still, FAI doesn't seem to offer an option to handle unpartitioned

Resolved using syslinux 6.04~, was: Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

2018-09-11 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 16:21:36 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 15:43:47 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > >>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:34:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > > >>>>> said: > > > > >> I

FAI setup for BeeGFS with ZFS, Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-24 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, On Fri, 2018-01-19 at 17:37:38 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:34:33 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> said: > > > Bad news: I just learned that the systems will get Cent

/tmp read-only? FAI 5.5, Stretch, NFSv3

2018-01-17 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hello, after running several sysinfo FAI_ACTIONs with jessie setups (and "aufs" in the append line), I decided the time has come to switch to Stretch. I upgraded fai-* to 5.5 from the uni-koeln Stretch repository, copied /etc/fai to /etc/fai-stretch, added a few packages to NFSROOT, and then

Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

2018-01-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hello, I'm still planning my installation, and found that a future storage server may move its /dev/sd* devices around if another JBOD is connected. I want to access the internal disks, of course, and set them up as softRAID. 1. Is it possible to map "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:11.4-ata-1" to

Non-X86 architectures?

2018-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
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Network interface names

2018-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, I've learned that I may "fix" the device interface names using a rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d, to avoid susprises after the installation. While adding some special parameters to the kernel command line didn't work, udev does its job reliably outside of FAI. What I still haven't found is

Re: Network interface names

2018-10-15 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, thanks for the responses which may turn out to be helpful in some way (if it's already too late to get hold of the old-style if names) - during a half-hearted test, the grub cmdline trick did not work for me. What still makes me curious is > > What I still haven't found is which magic FAI

Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2018-11-05 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
ZFS kernel module. Add a hook: --- /etc/fai/nfsroot-hooks/90-zfs --- #!/bin/bash export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive $ROOTCMD dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive spl-dkms $ROOTCMD dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive zfs-dkms --- --- Yes, that's kind of garters and belts, but it works. - S -- Steffen Gr

Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2018-11-15 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 12:54:52 +0800, Chris Hsiang wrote: > Dear Steffen > > How do you install debians os afterwards and config grub? follow > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS > or?? Hi Chris, Basically that's the document, yes. I didn't get that far yet,

Install ZFS root with FAI?

2018-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
. Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~

Re: FAI disk_config without partition table

2018-10-10 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2018-10-10 at 08:30:07 +0200, Jan Peters wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to the fai project and have a question about disk configuration. Is > it possible to create partitions from other blockdevices without a partition > table? > > Example: > > disk_config sda align-at:1M disklabel:msdos

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

2018-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 15:43:47 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:34:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> said: > > >> I suggest you to retrieve the version of SYSLINUX 6.04; look here for > more > >> in

UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

2018-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
ny suggestions what to try next? Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

2018-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 15:06:24 +0200, Rémy Dernat wrote: > Hi, > > I suggest you to retrieve the version of SYSLINUX 6.04; look here for more > informations : > https://groups.google.com/a/lbl.gov/forum/#!msg/warewulf/klTLgX-L4nw/IJZo3-jgAAAJ I'm stuck with 6.03 right now. (That thread is yet

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

2018-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 14:44:54 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:26:49 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> said: > > > After finding how to distinguish between BIOS and UEFI PXE requests, and > > setting up the DHC

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

2018-09-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 15:41:07 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:31:44 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > >>>>> said: > > > On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 14:44:54 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > I remember that the "lega

Yes, it can be done - Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2018-12-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Finally, I succeeded. Boot mode set to Legacy, PXE boot into FAI, with classes, hooks and scripts. It will take a few more days to iron out minor mistakes, before I can start to make this public ;) I will write up everything I did. Basically, I used input from the following documents, with a few

Getting closer but no cigar yet, Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2018-12-14 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, 2018-12-07 at 12:21:47 +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > Setting up a root zpool mirroring three disks, I get > > BOOT_DEVICE="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805104HX128BGN > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805102QH128BGN &

Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2018-12-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-11-15 at 19:56:56 +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Mon, 2018-11-12 at 12:54:52 +0800, Chris Hsiang wrote: > > Dear Steffen > > > > How do you install debians os afterwards and config grub? follow > > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki

Re: Network interface names

2018-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 12:18:52 +0100, Rémy Dernat wrote: > Ok; replying to myself. I found the solution. > > I just created a script for my BIONIC64 class (using the debian script) : > > ``` > #! /bin/bash > > iface=`ip -o -f inet addr show |awk '$2 !~ "lo|docker" {print $2;exit;}'` > mac=`ip

Re: Yes, it can be done - Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2019-04-04 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
wiki itself, but now I need to get write access first. Is this the right place to ask for it? Cheers, Steffen > > Cheers, > > > Robert > > > Am 18.12.18 um 10:22 schrieb Steffen Grunewald: > > Finally, I succeeded. > > > > Boot mode set to Legacy,

Re: HP Proliant DL360 G5 issues

2019-03-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi Bradley, On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 09:37:29 -0500, Bradley Cook (Personal) wrote: > Hello. I'm trying to install Qlustar on this system HP Proliant DL360 G5 > with Smart Array P400i raid controller.  I'm having a lot of trouble getting > the FAI to recognize the the hard drives. During the

Re: HP Proliant DL360 G5 issues

2019-03-07 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2019-03-07 at 15:29:29 -0500, Bradley Cook (Personal) wrote: > thanks for the advice. I'm not sure what I'm looking for. The output of > dmesg from ubuntu server is huge. Any suggestions on figuring out which is > the disk controller? Um, there are multiple approaches I could imagine. Two

Re: Yes, it can be done - Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

2019-04-10 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 10:09:13 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 11:35:15 +0100, Robert Markula wrote: > > great to hear! Maybe you could write it up in the FAI wiki when you're > > ready so things don't get lost in the mailman archive? > > I've written

Re: Issue in NVIDIA machine setup from FAI Server

2019-07-03 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 11:23:24 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 14:28:30 +0900, Chetan Neve said: > > > Hi Thomas, is it possible to make ethernet device name static through > FAI? > > eg. eth0 > The trick is to use the options "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" > on the

Re: PXE boot with UEFI

2019-11-29 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
t;; # needs ldlinux.e64 } if substring(option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 20) = "PXEClient:Arch:9" { filename "syslinux64.efi"; } Does this help you? Cheers, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~

Re: Possible bug in LAST/50-misc

2019-11-04 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 10:52:48 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > I've added -y to the apt-get call. But you should check why this > happens. > > > 1 not fully installed or removed. > I guess something went wrong before. I've seen this happening when installing some interdependent *-dkms packages

Re: FAI with pre-release bullseye yielding inconsistent network names

2021-01-15 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 12:19:30 -0800, fai1...@macrotex.net wrote: > I am attempting to build Debian "bullseye/sid" (pre-release bullseye) using > FAI 5.9.4. The network interface names come out being inconsistet, > > In /sys/class/net I see > > lo > ens192 > > but in /etc/network/interfaces.d I

Install error "package1 : Depends: package2 but it is not going to be installed"

2021-06-23 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
ver make it work). Any suggestions how to proceed? Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~

Re: Install error "package1 : Depends: package2 but it is not going to be installed"

2021-06-28 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
stallation logic) it's certainly worth investigating. Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~

Re: Some troubles with grub with buster point release 10.8

2021-02-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 11:58:25 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > > On 08.02.21 11:43, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > Doesn't Colin suggest to use a _space_ separated list? > > (Apparently commas are harmless in this context?) > > yeah, but the output on ma

Re: Some troubles with grub with buster point release 10.8

2021-02-08 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
At first glance I seem to be affected as well ... On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 11:31:18 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > > > On 08.02.21 11:21, Thomas Lange wrote: > > I also have some machines that are stuck because of this. I wonder why > > not all machines are affected. > > so far - as almost all

Re: Some troubles with grub with buster point release 10.8

2021-02-11 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hi, On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 19:59:24 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > I think we want to match all real disks which can be identified by a > name, model, serial number. Maybe also virtualized disks which have > such an entry at by-id. I agree with that. Hardware modifications will result in by-path

FAI confused by DHCP on multiple network interfaces

2021-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
ould not overwrite IPADDR - with a value identical to IP1ADDR.) Patches (to be applied directly to the NFSROOT) are welcome! Thanks, Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Pot

Re: FAI confused by DHCP on multiple network interfaces

2021-03-18 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Thu, 2021-03-18 at 18:12:56 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > FAI 5.10.1 includes some change in get-boot-info > which may fix your problems. Instead of using all interfaces that are > up, boot.log should only contain the parameters of your first NIC. > > > Is this a known problem? How can I

Multiple kernel append parameters?

2021-03-19 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hello again, how do I specify multiple kernel append parameters in the fai-chboot command line? -k "foo bar" tells me to read the manual page, instead of creating the pxelinux.cfg file... -k "'foo bar'" would use "foo" but complains that is doesn't know the host "bar". There must be a trick,

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