On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Thomas Lange <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:23:42 +0100, Natxo Asenjo >>>>>> <[email protected]> said: > > > when installing from pxe debian squeeze 32 to a pc with only a usb > > mass storage device I get this error: > > > this system does not have a physical disk 1 > > Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE > Maybe the usb kernel driver is not loaded early enough. > FAI calls setup-storage, which uses the list of all disks in the > variable $disklist. This variable is created by parsing > /proc/partitions. So, check if your USB stick ist listed there.
yes, it is there. I tried kickstarting centos and that works. When trying fai after failing I now see 2 partitions: # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 3932160 sda 8 1 512000 sda1 8 2 3419136 sda2 lsmod shows the usb_storage driver as well. Thanks, -- groet, natxo
