Re: new to the list and fai

[Jean Spirat]

I don't know what kind of things might be necessary with AOE.


having aoe in the kernel does not seems to be enough. The kernel do not 
find the aoe device i think it need an aoe-discover for that :((

But, anyway, I guess you should try it like this, and see what happens 
- report back here or ask on irc if it doesn't work directly.

Another things you might consider, if you use AOE anyway to mount the 
root FS for running the systems after installation, and probably boot 
the systems from PXE anyway, you might consider to build your initial 
installation from a central server, just mount the root fs there, and 
do a FAI dirinstall. 
yes i can, but i also have other setup with disk so i want both :)

the command i used is :

fai-chboot -v  -k 'aoe_iflist="eth1" root=/dev/etherd/e10.1 
rootfstype=ext3' '2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7' demohost2
Booting kernel 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7
append   aoe_iflist="eth1" root=/dev/etherd/e10.1 rootfstype=ext3

Kernel parameters: aoe_iflist="eth1" root=/dev/etherd/e10.1 rootfstype=ext3
demohost2 has 192.168.1.202 in hex C0A801CA
Writing file /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/C0A801CA for demohost2



the kernel boot and do a kernel panic because it cannot find the root 
device, but if i grep ALL the files for "aoe_iflist" none has it so 
where does fai store this part ?

The commands
find /srv -exec egrep -l aoe_iflist {} \;
find /etc -exec egrep -l aoe_iflist {} \;
return no result, are those options just sent in the wind or do i miss 
something :) ?

also if i read the fai-chboot man page it give this exemple:
fai-chboot -v atom-localboot /dev/hda1 atom03

for me it is:

fai-chboot -v '2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7' '/dev/etherd/e10.1' demohost1


but then i got this error:        fai-chboot: unknown host: 
/dev/etherd/e10.1

strange no ?

the issue is that nfs-kernel-server is incompatible with the kernel i 
use on the fai-server so i try to find another way for me, 
nfs-user-server cannot be installed the debian fai package prevents it 
completly (why ?)  and i do not know how to force a package 
install/uninstall withtout looking at dependency in debian.

i go back to googling.


Jean