Re: trying to load...

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:30:27 +0200, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i used the tree out of sarge but the same error... He will load the MAC and the mac isnt there :( Mmm. It seems that you have a different problem. Normally pxelinux.0 tries to load the file with the MAC address,

Re: trying to load...

Guten Tag Michael Tautschnig, am Montag, 16. April 2007 um 14:00 schrieben Sie: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:30:27 +0200, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i used the tree out of sarge but the same error... He will load the MAC and the mac isnt there :( Mmm. It seems that you

Re: trying to load...

[...] oke when i write a file to the tftp server it seems to be work: Apr 16 12:36:47 pxe-server in.tftpd[17766]: WRQ from 89.106.72.1 filename test.log When i want to connect i dont see any logs :( Does connect here mean booting one of your computers? Then, there is no attempt made to

Re: FAI CD for etch using FAI 3.1.8 available

A new ISO image of the FAI CD using the newest FAI release 3.1.8 and etch packages is available at http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-cd/ Currently it's only available for i386, not for amd64. Has it become possible again to create FAI-CDs? I thought that this is still broken -

Re: nach der install autoamtisch das system booten

[...] (andere Probleme ...) Ich versteh auch nicht ganz wo ich bei der neuen fai version mein custom kernel hin kopieren muss. Bei der 2.er war es ja /usr/locale/share/fai/files/packages nun hab ich das verzeichnis einfach ins /srv/fai/files/packages gemacht und irgentwie nix :( Soweit

Re: kernel not found during installation

Wait ... [...] Get:5 http://debs.ugent.be etch/main netbackup 5.1-2 [51.8MB] [...] wopr:/ugdisk/debs/dists/etch/main# find . . ./source ./source/Sources.gz ./binary-i386 ./binary-i386/netbackup_5.1-3_i386.deb ./binary-i386/Packages ./binary-i386/Packages.gz

Re: Parallel FAI installations for sarge and etch on a sarge machine

Hi all, in April i posted a question concearning parallel FAI installations (FAI 2.9.1 for sarge and etch on a sarge Machine) on one Machine and got some answers: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2007-April/004910.html I tried the make-fai-nfsroot -c CFDIR but ran into

Re: grub problem

[...] Well, the current simple example from SVN trunk does not call grub-install within the chroot... so this is clearly an error... one can not rely on grub being installed to the nfsroot... Is it? Well, the postinst part of the config space, so one could rely on anything being installed

Re: softupdate needs -N

Hi, On Thursday 16 August 2007 14:59, Henning Glawe wrote: I vote for renewing classes by default... Seconded. Me too. Best, Michael pgpCvZiNAVHfl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with script 'make-fai-nfsroot'

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:49:42 +0200, Vincent Batoufflet [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: install_packages: reading config files from directory /etc/fai Can't call method exists on an undefined value at /usr/sbin/install_packages line 413, FILE line 36. This may help: aptitude

Re: securing installation

[...] The only question is where should I add the code that views the cgi script? Should I add in the rcS file? And where? I guess some things have to be configure first before I start the download. I think a hook for the task confdir should do; just note that you can't put that into the

Re: error while running make-fai-nfsroot

Thanks Holger, It worked. I was able install the etch OS. What is the default username/password that we need to give when it reboots? Should we login as root? The password should be fai HTH, Michael pgpCdtPBKK4WX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems to boot the FAI client

[...] (kernel BUG) That's all. Then the executation will stop. I have no idea what is wrong. Can anybody help me? Do you need some config files or logs? Unless somebody else on the list has experienced this already (and knows about some possible misconfiguration) I'd suspect this is a

Re: unable to mount nfsroot

[...] | Oct 3 17:36:43 ha1 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.101 (192.168.0.10) from 52:54:00:12:34:58 via eth0 | Oct 3 17:36:43 ha1 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.101 to 52:54:00:12:34:58 via eth0 | Oct 3 17:36:43 ha1 mountd[2279]: refused mount request from 192.168.0.101 for

Re: unable to mount nfsroot

Christian Marillat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] First my nfs setup was wrong. I've just discovered this page : Nothing better even with a nfs correctly configured. Now I see a kernel oops (kernel NULL pointer in dereference) in the node I try to nfsmount to my HA front-end. Which

Re: problems after upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2

Hi! Just a few weeks ago i accidentally upgraded FAI 3.1 to 3.2. I read the changelog, installed needed packages and rebuilt nfsroot. Whane i try to install a new server it ends with the Line Begin: Mounting root frile system ... nfs works fine, i tried on another machine. DNS does right

Re: configuration to boot from network card

[...] What exactly is the normal GUI? I completely fail to see the problem as ... Thank you, the graphical interface with Debian 's logo and boot: You are using FAI, not the debian installer, so why should there be the Debian logo? Could you please be explicit about what problem you

Re: configuration to boot from network card + .....

[...] Thank you, the graphical interface with Debian 's logo and boot: Nov 8 13:04:15 tlon dhcpd: DHCPACK on 10.10.0.141 to 00:14:22:28:da:09 via eth0 Nov 8 13:04:15 tlon atftpd[2881]: Serving /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.0 to 10.10.0.141:2070 Nov 8 13:04:15 tlon atftpd[2881]: Serving

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem

[...] Nov 9 10:00:39 procyon mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from testfai.labri.fr:1014 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) Nov 9 10:00:39 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from for

Re: configuration to boot from network card

2- on client Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-premount ... mount: Device or resource busy -- Done after few minutes mount : Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file ... mount : Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file ... Target filesystem doesn't have

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - live/filesystem.dir and read only filesystem

[...] Maybe for you too http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444079 applies - please try to add nfs-common to the NFSROOT file (as shown in the patch attached to the bug report). Best, Michael pgpAazMBXIm56.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: / under soft raid 1.

[...] Actually, this is supposed to be integrated with FAI 3.3; for the moment you need to do some manual steps: Take a look at http://faiwiki.debian.net/index.php/Storage_Magic, which documents to proposed new tool and the necessary steps to run it. Nice to see this is being worked on.

Re: / under soft raid 1.

[...] _ [wf:] Thanks I will user this doc . I'll be ok to manage test if they're planed. Testing is highly appreciated, just post any problems you see! Thanks in advance, Michael pgpEspty4CnqU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pb with raid / (with log)

Hi. I am fighting with my fai 3.2.4 to install a soft raid / I read and configure the setup hardisk http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Setup_harddisks_2 I modifie FAIBASE i create the hook script i install the libparse-recdescent-perl and liblinux-lvm-perl in my nfsroot I

Re: pb with raid / (with log)

[...] I don't really understand this part of your message: Did you ever add the -X parameter to the debug=1 ... storage_magic line? __ [wf:] The to have them executed, use -X are in the fai.log. I do not it add to the debug=1 ...storage If you

Re: problem with storage-magic?

I am testing storage-magic on multiple computer and i have a pb. Nec computer AMD 64 3000+ 2 ide 200 G PATA disk. The raid / does not work. ok i change partition and I try to install a simple system. hda1 swap hda2 / ext3 [...] Hmm, maybe udev fast not fast enough - I've committed a

Re: setup-storage and LVM

[...] INTERNAL ERROR in setup-storage: convert_unit 235528.823803711MB Please report this error to the Debian Bug Tracking System. [...] Ok, should be fixed, please try SVN revision 4834. Thanks, Michael pgpBlvyghHSdY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: setup-storage and LVM

[...] Volume group my_pv requires 2.25179981368525e+15 MB Shouldn't the script now start partitioning the harddisk ? Hmm, well, this message is actually telling you that there is too little space on your disk; could you please update to the current SVN revision, where I added some more

Re: Newbie with fai-cd

[...] 1. cp -Rv /srv/fai/config/ /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/var/lib/fai/ No, I don't think you need that one. 2. fai-cd -m /srv/fai/nfsroot/ /my_destination/imagen_fai_1.iso After the -m option a mirror should be given, not the NFSROOT; you can create the mirror using the

Re: fai version 3.2.4: error /usr/lib/fai/prcopyleft: line 16...........

Morning, I am using fai version 3.2.4 on my server fai, when i am installing my client -fai. I can't install linux on the hard disk. This is the error message /usr/lib/fai/prcopyleft: line 16: cannot create temp file for here document :Read-only file system tee:/tmp/fai/fai.log: No

Re: Debian lenny with etch chrooted. Fai-setup fails

Hi. I have a lenny Debian running, and I debootrstraped a etch distro inside, becasu (tell me if not) fai only runs under a 'stable' - 'etch' debian distro. No, FAI would run fine on lenny as well, but actually the current packages involve a hack to make it run on etch, because we need

Re: Debian lenny with etch chrooted. Fai-setup fails

Hi. My /etc/apt/source.list (lenny system) has this line: deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download etch koeln Is necessary more changes? Yes, it should not have any references to etch; the easiest way to go is probably cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/fai/apt/sources.list

Re: FAI with LVM

Hi James, [...] Please update your SVN checkout to revision 4838, that should hopefully fix your LVM problem. Still, I've no idea about the mdadm-thing, I'll try to debug this some time time in February (sorry, quite busy ATM). Best, Michael pgpBXPWLYNMq2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian lenny with etch chrooted. Fai-setup fails

[...] The setup fails, because neither the well wkown line 'FAI setup finished.' nor error message are present. The logs: (/var/log/fai/fai-setup.log) http://pastebin.com/m75c1d8f6 (/var/log/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.log) http://pastebin.com/m4cb2803f Hmmm, can't spot any error in

Re: Trouble with a Bladecenter

Hello, * Philipp Grau [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29.01.08 08:36]: Up until now, we did not make any progress. But I'll do some more testing at the end of the week and will report if there is success. Do give a short summary: There were some problems with the network setup. The blades did

Re: Fai with extra Attansic L2 ethernet driver

Hello, Ezzel a dátummal: Saturday 09 February 2008 17.23.25 ezt írta: I am new in fai, and I need to setting up a lot of machine with Asus P5gc-mx/1333 motherboard which has Attansic L2 ethernet device. I read a doc on fai to make special kernel image (

Re: Compiling source code on FAI client

[...] 1#!/bin/bash 2 3$ROOTCMD cp -R /media/mirror/clustersoft /home/cluster 4$ROOTCMD chmod -R 777 /home/cluster/clustersoft 5$target/usr/bin/gcc $target/home/cluster/clustersoft/test.c From previous runs I learned that I have to put the keyword

Re: Lvm setup-storage mount point

Hello I'm happily using setup-storage to set-up LVM Volumes. I do have a little question about vg volume mount point I tried several combinaison without success : For example i'd like to use logical mountpoint instead of /dev/sdX. For instance something like that #

Re: Fehlermeldung /usr/lib/fai/prcopyleft: line 16

[...] Da ich nicht weiß, was pastebin ist, schicke ich die Log-Datei von make-fai-nfsroot als attachment. Sorry - sowas wie paste.debian.net, z.B. - dann muss man nur den Link schicken. Könntest Du das nochmal machen, allerdings bitte make-fai-nfsroot -v, dann gibt's mehr info. Woran

Re: nfsmount: need a server?

[...] What's strange is that the same nfsmount line succeeds at mounting the nfsroot when entered manually from the initramfs prompt ! Hmm, that's indeed really strange. The kernel line for getting this result is the following one: kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs

Re: FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

[...] Did you add the boot=live option to your kernel command line? Did you remove the /dev/ram0 thingy? Anyway, it might be helpful to post (the relevant part of) your menu.lst. If the command line is correct already, the unionfs modules are likely to be missing in your initrd. Could that

Re: dpkg error

Hallo, während der Installation von Debian-Kernel-Paketen treten Fehler auf, die in software.log wie folgt lauten: Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.18-6-686. Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1_i386.deb) ...

Re: Newbie on FAI

[...] A past of the shell.log file in /var/log/fai/demohost/last shows that grub only found that option (hd0) /dev/sda Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ...

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

Hello, i'm having a little disagrement with setup-storage, on a HP G5, with 4 146G disk raid 1+0. The little issue is it cannot determine size of /dev/cciss/c0d02 Anyone got a tip ? There is a problem in your disk_config: -- Source hook:

Re: JMB368 and fai-cd 3.1.8

Hi, seems like nobody replied so far - sorry! Hi all. I'm trying to install with a fai-cd a couple of PCs that have a Jmicron JMB368 IDE controller and a sata disk. When booting up, the fai cd boots up correctly, i see the grub menù and then it stops after the blue line Gibraltar FAI

Re: setup_harddisks

Hi, I'm having some trouble adjusting setup_harddisks to do what I want. I want to partition a hard disk with 56 tracks and 256 heads and that each partition starts on a cylinder that is a multiple of 8. What is it that forces you to do this? I have found that I can the sfdisk variable

Re: task_chboot: SERVER not defined

Hallo Thomas, SERVER not defined. Can't change network boot configuration Die Variable $SERVER ist nicht definiert. Schau mal ins variables.log Dort ist keine Variable SERVER definiert. Muss ich Diese Variable irgendwo definieren? Die wird eigentlich automatisch über die

Re: task_chboot: SERVER not defined

Hallo Michael, SERVER not defined. Can't change network boot configuration Die Variable $SERVER ist nicht definiert. Schau mal ins variables.log Dort ist keine Variable SERVER definiert. Muss ich Diese Variable irgendwo definieren? Die wird eigentlich automatisch über die

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

[...] I corrected it following you advice, but still no chance :) What i'm I missing ? It's working fine with Dell and Vmware. I got an odd Cannot determine size of /dev/cciss/c0d02 while it does not exist, the devices are ~# ls /dev/cciss/c0d0 c0d0 c0d0p1 c0d0p10 c0d0p2

Re: magic_storage. TEST and return of experience.

Hi William, First of all: Thank you very much for testing setup-storage in various configurations -- especially RAID lacks testing... [...] I found a pb with Raid option. i haven't found how to use spare disks under raid array. I test the :spare:missing option, :spare I try multiple

Re: magic_storage. TEST and return of experience.

[...] I am interesting to use the crypto setup (LURKS) I am ready to test any solution tha can do it. It was planned to integrate this into setup-storage, but I haven't found the time to look into this yet. [wf:] I will work on this way this week.

Re: ubuntu make-fai-bootfloppy is currently broken.

Goesta Smekal wrote: Installing Hardy on up to 140 Desktops aged 0 to 5 years I simply can't do without initrd. Besides the default kernels of most distros nowadays are initrd. Is there any remedy? * Looking at the code and try to fix the problem * boot with PXE [...] Use FAI-CD ...

Re: grub/kernel install issues

Hi all, Just curious, am I the only one with suddenly weird grub kernel install issues using Fai 3.2.4 and etch+etch security repository ? I'm having the same issues on i386 and amd64 platform since last weekend. I'm guessing some etch/security update somehow messed something up. I

Re: grub/kernel install issues

Hi Michael, On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 10:07 +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Just curious, am I the only one with suddenly weird grub kernel install issues using Fai 3.2.4 and etch+etch security repository ? I'm guessing some etch/security update somehow messed something up. I

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

Hello Well I did some testing and unfortunately it still does not work on /dev/cciss controler. We did some testing and tried to modified the following line in parser.pm [...] Oh yes, I'm sorry. That should all be fixed in SVN rev 4858. It led used to another failure, might be

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

Hello Unlucky :) Does r4861 do any better? In case it fails again, please keep providing logs :-) Thanks a lot, Michael pgpTebeh3KDi7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

Whoops still broke :) r4862? Thanks ... Michael pgp6mrgv60Rq6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

Hello Unfortunately another error ;) Well, it's actually the same, but I changed the wording to make it unique... Nevertheless, I'll try to fix it this afternoon, I'll keep you posted. Best, Michael pgp8hKyKgMM7K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setup_hardisk lvm Cannot determine size

Hello All right, another try. Ok, we're getting a lot closer. Could you please give r4867 a try? Thanks, Michael pgpxz0R1hueVf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: setup-storage and grub issue

Michael Tautschnig wrote: I started playing around with setup-storage to setup a lvm-on-raid1-2disk box. setup-storage really works out fine, but grub installation fails, apparently because the $BOOT_DEVICE is set nowhere. disk_var.sh only defines $SWAP_LIST and $ROOT_PARTITION

Re: setup-storage and grub issue

Michael Tautschnig wrote: Hmm, ok, this is not as straightforward as I hoped. I need to look into this more thoroughly, but this will take some time. Until then I suggest you modify the GRUB/* scripts such as to work without the BOOT_DEVICE/BOOT_PARTITION information, which I guess

Re: FAI install over serial console, manual interventions?

Hi, we've run into the problem that there's only a Serial-over-LAN console available (BMC card, with IP address pre-set or assigned via DHCP), and there might be no sshd running yet, or the network is misconfigured in such a way that ssh connections aren't possible. Is there a reliable way

Re: Problem with setup_harddisks

Hi! [...] As disk-config, we are using: disk_config disk1 primary /boot/ 10-100 ; boot primary - preserve2 logical / 9000-14000 rw,errors=remount-ro ; -j ext3 logical swap400-600 rw logical -

Re: fai-cd : Need to extract a tarball

Dear I would like to fai extract a tarball in a particular folder. After create the CD, fai encounter error localhost/install-20080505_105153/fai.log:ftar: No matching class found in /var/lib/fai/config/files//opt To explain, this is my procedure : 1) I have created a file

Re: FAI on Debian Lenny failing

Hi all, I am wondering if anyone might have some ideas. The default install that was done of FAI failed to use the 2.6.24-1-486 kernel and modules very well. I ended up with unionfs errors. I did some digging and found that others were having a similar problem and that there is an issue

Re: demohost install (task_chboot)

Hi, i have a problem with the demohost install. The demohost boot over PXE, then run the install (without errors), the demohost reboot and install again and install again... How can i define the task_chboot or how can i fix this? [...] Most probably task_chboot fails, i.e., the client

Re: FAI on Debian Lenny failing

It was failing when it was trying to insert the unionfs modules. I don't have the web sites that I found that others were having the same issue. I just did a Google search on it. Is there anybody else on the list who has tried to use current FAI on lenny? We should really get FAI in shape

Re: FAI on Debian Lenny failing

It was failing when it was trying to insert the unionfs modules. I don't have the web sites that I found that others were having the same issue. I just did a Google search on it. BTW, couldn't you also run an etch NFSROOT and just upgrade the client to lenny? HTH, Michael

Re: FAI on Debian Lenny failing

For some reason I am unable to get FAI running properly on etch either. I was getting chroot issues when running fai-setup. Would you mind re-trying that? It seems like as FAI people cannot do much about the current unionfs issue, but I'm sure we will get things going when using etch. Alas, if

Re: FAI on Debian Lenny failing

Ok. So I rebuilt the machine I am using as the install server with etch. This is the last bit of information that gets dumped to the screen before returning to the prompt. I ran fai-setup -v. W: Failure trying to run: chroot /data/srv/fai/nfsroot dpkg --force-depends --install Aborting

Re: FAI on Debian Lenny failing

Ok. Now I feel like a dummy. It appears that it was my local mirror that was causing the problems. After getting the mirror cleaned up, the fai-setup ran completely and I was able to get a client to boot with the sysinfo flag set. I will work with this for a bit to get more familiar with

Re: ubuntu hardy -- need network help

Hi! [...] then the IPADDR is ok, but HOSTNAME still equals host (and I don't really want to specify the ip address -- that's what bootp is for, right?). Any ideas? This is also my first time using fai-cd. Install server = Ubuntu 8.04 with fai-server 3.2.4+svn4837, and also

Re: Need simulate apt-get with backports

Dear I need to use this commands when installing the system apt-get install debian-backports-keyring apt-get -t etch-backports install postfix how to simulate it in /fai/config/package_config file ?* While others have already added some more points on this one, I'm doing it as follows

Re: Kernel config magic?

Hi John, Is there a way to take a stock kernel config and turn it into a FAI boot kernel config? I just cannot get my FAI boot kernel to recognize the sata drive in a machine. Who knows what box I have to check in the kernel config? But I know a ubuntu kernel recognizes the drive. Can I

Re: fai-cd makes too big iso

Hi list. I've fai-server 3.2.7, and I'm unable to make bootable cd iso image with fai-cd command. in fact, I did it with fai-cd -m /tmp/emptydir myiso.iso until an automtic update gets a new version of fai-server. [...] Was that an update from 3.2.6. to 3.2.7? Apparently there was

Re: config questions

Bjorn, Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) /sys/class/net/ is not available, persistent interface names not saved. [...] Are you running all this in any kind of chroot (well, make-fai-nfsroot will chroot

Re: setup storage problem mit lvm und software raid

hi! Ich dachte ja ich würde mit LVM auskommen, aber jetzt brauche ich doch SW raid und lvm gemeinsam. Auf http://www.schuldei.org/fai.log und http://www.schuldei.org/fai-2.log sind die Ergebnisse meiner Versuche. Der Unterschied zwischen fai.log und fai-2.log ist, dass ich bei -2 die

Re: setup storage can't use % or G

I've upgraded to the latest FAI with SETUP_STORAGE i tried using the default SETUP_STORAGE disk layout but it doesn't like the lines that define like 4G for 4 Gigabytes or 10% for 10% of disk FAI will throw an error and says there's a problem with disk_setup configuration on the lines

Re: setup storage can't use % or G

i just used the example file in FAI /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/disk_config/SETUPSTORAGE i didn't edit anything I'm sorry, but I fail to reproduce this, the file parses properly. Could you please provide the log files generated by setup-storage? Thanks, Michael

Re: Can't open /scripts/live

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:58:05 +0200, Tobias Herziger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: kernel = '/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64' ramdisk = '/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64' You have to use the kernel and initrd that is generated by make-fai-nfsroot. Only this initrd will include

Re: unionfs mount failed

Hi! Today's not my most successful day ;) Well, then let's make it your most successful day :-)) I'm now discovering the following problem: I try to xm create mysqlprx01 vminstall=1 -c a new XenU. I'm getting the busybox but unionfs mount failed. Why? Does somebody know why ROOTPATH is

Re: ERROR: could not read device /dev/lvm

[...] By the way, for fai-client 3.2.8 is it normal that installation fails if a target hard drive contains LVM volume? I'm just wondering is this a bug or a feature. The same disk layout configuration works if I erase a couple of megabytes in the beginning of the disk. I haven't

Re: setup storage can't use % or G

ok so i tried not including /dev and it does the same thing it halts on trying to mount root on startup when i reboot i've attached the log Oh yes ... please add $ROOTCMD update-initramfs -k all -u to one of your scripts, maybe LAST/50-misc or add some script named SETUPSTORAGE; we'll add

Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS

Hmm, Usually, you can boot very well even if the hostname is not set - you just need to tftp server address. well the dns name has been set to that address in BIND DHCP entry is like: group { # PXE-specific configuration directives next-server

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS]

FYI - Forwarded message from Andreas Hirczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Andreas Hirczy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FAI not picking up hostname from DNS Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:26:47 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu

Re: Workaround while installing xen kernels

hiya I'm installing XenSource VMs via FAI with Debian and Ubuntu. Since grub doesn't recognize paravirtualized kernels (when being run from a regular kernel such as 2.6.18-6-486) I scripted some actions to manually provide a correct configuration. (among other stuff) There's a small hack

Clarifications of preserve-syntax in setup-storage

Hi all, in the FAI wiki Paul Lussier started a talk with questions regarding the preserve equivalents in setup-storage (Paul, I hope you're on the list as well). The question was: could anybody give me the right trasformation of this configuration to the new format disk_config hda

Re: Klasse des Hostnames wird nicht definiert

On Fri, August 1, 2008 10:27 pm, Michael Tautschnig wrote: Wenn ich mir die log-Datei variables.log anschaue stelle ich folgende Inkonsistenz fest: ... GROUPS=() HOSTNAME='(none)' HOSTTYPE=x86_64 ... flag_reboot=1 hostname=newton ip=dhcp ... Ich glaube, dieser Teil ist

Re: Klasse des Hostnames wird nicht definiert

mir ist aufgefallen dass die ubuntu nfsroot statt einer bash eine _dash_ als default shell benutzt. kann sein, dass deswegen zw. lowercase und uppercase so strikt getrennt wird. Moment mal, das könnte tatsächlich ein bash/dash Problem sein. Aber wie ist das: Es funktioniert unter

Re: fai-cd: How eject the cd-rom or reboot automatically ?

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:28:06 +0200, TOUZEAU DAVID [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At the end of the fai-cd installation, i would like to automatically eject the CD or reboot the system instead asking press Enter key ? Is it possible ? Add the flag reboot, which should do the

Re: fai-cd: How eject the cd-rom or reboot automatically ?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:28:06AM +0200, TOUZEAU DAVID wrote: At the end of the fai-cd installation, i would like to automatically eject the CD or reboot the system instead asking press Enter key ? Is it possible ? Best regards most cdroms I know (except for the slot-in-ones) close

Re: disk_config help

Hi! So all I want for my disk layout to be is 500 meg /boot partition (and make that bootable) 2 gig swap partition everything else in / Do you want to use setup_harddisks or the (newer) setup-storage to achieve this? this doesn't work, what am i doing wrong? thanks. [EMAIL

Re: nfs-kernel-server and nfs-user-server

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:36:40 +0200, Jean Spirat [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: is there a way to use the nfs-user-server with FAI (debian etch) and not the kernel one ? AFAIK the user server do not support the no_root_squash option, which is needed for FAI. I'm not sure about

Re: why does my fai-client want to ssh to fai-client and not to the fai-server ?

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I am netbooting a client I call 'sata-test' . Near the very end of the install , on sata-test, my client tries to SSH to 'sata-test'. I think it should ssh to pl-dev , to run fai-chboot

Re: Fai to install a Xen Dom0

Can someone point me in the direction of any documentation, that clearly outlines what files would need to be altered and or added to use a FAI to install a xen kernel/ Dom0 on a virgin server? any help would be greatly appreciated. Before coming here and asking for any help, I have

Re: FAI Xen Reply

Michael, Thank you for your time. Yes, I was trying to use FAI to set this up so that when the host server is rebooted, a xen kernel is loaded. I can provide more information if needed, and thank you for your time. pkg's I would typically use manually to install a xen kernel.

Re: ERROR with invocation of apt-get update

[...] So I dived into the problem and found out that, when FAI install apt on the /target it copies all the files recursivelly from /etc/apt/* from the nfsroot to the target drive which is exactly the intended behaviour... With one exception... Somehow somewhere it also created a one-liner

Re: nfs headache: can't read superblock

Hi, i am trying to make FAI work on my debian box but i fail at the 'mount root fs' part on NFS: fai02:/# rpcinfo -p 192.168.1.72 program no_version protocole no_port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 132 udp 2049 nfs

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: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) To: Michael Tautschnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nfs headache: can't read superblock Is the local portmap running? Does /mnt/nfs/ exist? Incompatible nfs versions (client trying v3, server only supports v2)? server and client are the same box as i am

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[...] for an fai related one, i just had an issue with fai-chboot where i tried : fai-chboot -f verbose,sshd,reboot,VSERVERHOST,SETUPSTORAGE -k ip=dhcp initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26.3-vs2.3.0.35.5 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.72:/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir

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