That's fast.. ;-)
I am running the fai server on a Debian etch, 2.6.18-5.
Installed fai, version 3.1.8.
dpkg -l|grep fai
ii fai-client
3.1.8 Fully Automatic Installation
client package
ii fai-doc
3.1.8 Documentation for FAI
ii fai-kernels 1.17+etch.
18etch1 special kernels for FAI (Fully
Automatic Ins
ii fai-server
3.1.8 Fully Automatic Installation
server package
I did read the whole FAI guide, and installed a dhcp on the server
machine.
I defined a host in /etc/hosts, named demohost, and ran faichboot -IFv
demohost, after which I started up the machine.
The complete install is running, after which I have a machine, where
it looks like the install was succesfull. However, when I reboot, the
grub menu only shows the memtest86+ option.
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 ... found: /boot/grub/
menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
grep: /boot/config*: No such file or directory
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Grub installed on /dev/sda on (hd0,0)
mount: can't find /tmp/target/boot in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
GRUB/10-setup FAILED with exit code 1.
The default classes for demohost are:
demohost)
echo "FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO" ;;
According to the fai.log file, these are all the classes which are
assigned: List of all classes: DEFAULT LINUX AMD64 FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO
GRUB demohost LAST
Find this error message:
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "linux-
image-486"
Should I update that one, from package_config/FAIBASE to linux-
image-2.6.18-5-amd64??
Walter
On 14 mrt 2008, at 19:21, Henning Sprang wrote:
Hi Walter,
Some question that will help to make helping you possible, and that
might gove you an iudea where to look at:
Walter den Besten wrote:
[...]
Do I need to copy the linux kernel files to /boot manually onto the
server?
No
Or should that be one of the steps which should be in the demo files?
Yes.
I can't find the place where that should happen.
/boot should be filled with "normal" kernels from "normal" kernel
packages. A Kernel package should be specified for ionstalltion in
the example classes you are using.
Which Version of FAI do you use?
Which Host Distributions and version do you use?
Which distribution are you installing?
Which installation type are you using (network install/cd install/
dirinstall)?
Did you read the (whole) FAI Guide?
What do you see in the installation log files?
(I expect, there must be some error mentioned about problems when
installing the kernel, or, if you look at the classes that are
defined, you don't have any kernel specified to install for any o
the classes)
Henning
