On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 19:34, Ghassan Elrayah <g...@spreadshirt.net> wrote: > > > > On 3/30/19 6:58 PM, Christian Nilsson wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 at 17:58, Ghassan Elrayah <g...@spreadshirt.net> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am facing a problem loading the preseed file for Debian installation. > >> The unattended installation stops always at the mirror country option > >> which is defined in my preseed. The preseed file is in the new server > >> either in /tmp or under / depending on the path I specified. But the > >> installer just ignores it. I don't know if its a Debian bug or an ipxe > >> issue. I am not using UEFI rather BIOS. > >> > >> > >> But the result is always the same, after configuring the language, the > >> locales and keyboard, I have to choose the interface, because the server > >> has four of them and I cannot preseed the correct one. Then I enter the > >> hostname manually which is desired, since the preseed is for hardware > >> server installation as Ganeti node, but then the mirror defined in the > >> preseed is not picked neither the further steps of the installation > >> process. > >> > >> Thank you for your support > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Ghassan Elrayah > >> System Engineer > >> > > First of I know nothing about Debian. > > As I understand it some of your choices in your pressed file is detected? > > If so this is entirely an Debian issue and not iPXE related? > > > > Can you check that your pressed file is downloaded and restored into > > the running linux system? > > Also check that /proc/cmdline contains what you expect it to. > > > > (if you where using EFI then the file would never exist in /tmp/ but > > that is due to the fact that cpio is not created when starting efi > > binaries, also the extra initrd= lines would be needed as kernel > > options) > > > > One thing that I do note... > > if you have kernel line with arguments and then use imgargs - then the > > arguments on the kernel line is gone, > > My preferred way here is to put everything on the kernel line to avoid > > the confusion. > > > > /Christian > Hi Christian and thanks for the reply. > > I can confirm that the preseed file is downloaded on the target machine > and the /proc/cmdline contains exactly the arguments I am passing to the > Kernel through the imgargs with the following version of menu.ipxe, > unfortunately without success: > > :d10-dc-node > set base-url > https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/amd64/daily/netboot/debian-installer/amd64 > initrd ${base-url}/initrd.gz > initrd tftp://my.ipxe.server/preseed/debian_buster_node.seed > /tmp/debian_buster_node.seed > kernel ${base-url}/linux auto > preseed/url=tftp://my.ipxe.server/preseed/debian_buster_node.seed > netcfg/choose_interface=eno1 auto-install/enable=true fb=false > debconf/frontend=noninteractive debian-installer=en_US.UTF-8 auto > locale=en_US.UTF-8 console-setup/ask_detect=false kbd-chooser/method=us > keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=us keyboard-configuration/modelcode=pc105 > keyboard-configuration/layout=USA keyboard-configuration/variant=USA > BOOT_DEBUG=2 -- > boot > > the only detected preseed choices are those provided by the Kernel > arguments in the menu.ipxe, which are relevant for the language choice > and they cannot be proseeded according to the official preseed docs. > The preseed file is under /tmp and the /proc/cmd contains exactly the > Kernel arguments. > > -- > > Ghassan Elrayah > System Engineer >
On the kernel cmdline ... preseed/url=tftp://my.ipxe.server/preseed/debian_buster_node.seed dosn't make sense? I don't think that it supports tftp in the Debian init scripts. Eighter point it to the file in /tmp/ or use a http url which is the likely supported case (but I might as well mention that some initrds do not support DNS, so using http://ip is the safest in terms of first test) _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel