Thanks very march Thomas.
>>>>> On Thu Feb 21 10:45:27 CET 2013 Thomas wrote: >> I have several ARM Servers (SOC is Marvell armadaxp CPU) in my lab that already install the Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 >> I try to use FAI to install the others ARM Server. >> “exec run-init /root /sbin/init vPhoneConfig --no-log >> udevd[631]: starting version 175” >> May I know this fail is come from “live-initramfs was not installed” or no > Which FAI version do you use? Recent version use dracut instead of > live-initramfs. But I guess these problems are because you are using > Ubuntu. When trying a new architecture please use Debian, so you make > sure your problems do not come from using Ubuntu. Ubuntu and FAI is > not running smoothly all the time and I myself cannot give any Ubuntu > support. Currently my FAI version is “FAI 3.4.8ubuntu3, 31 Jul 2012” I will try to sue dracut instead of live-initramfs to check it work or no May I know how to get dracut packages? I am not sure the Debian has supported the Marvell armadaxp SOC or no? It seems currently Ubuntu has supported the Marvell armadaxp SOC. >> And does FAI support ARM server or no? > I never tried this, but in the past FAI was used on very different > architectures with success (like PowerPC, Itanium, Sparc). There are > some part that may be architecture specific. First PXE boot. Some > architectures do not support PXE boot, but ARM seems to do > so. Partitioning the hard disk (different disk labels like DOS, GPT, > SPARC,...) is another part that may need some enhancement in FAI. But > since we support DOS and GPT disklabel, ARM should be no problem. The > last part is configuring the boot loader. I guess ARM is using uboot > most of the time, and currently there's no configuration script in FAI > for uboot. But this should not be a problem. Yes, our ARM server boot loader uses the uBoot loader, and it also supports PXE boot. We can use uboot PXE to do network-install-boot to install Ubuntu OS packages to the local HDD from Ubuntu repository database. Best Regards Sam Chien
