Source: fai Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
fai-cd creates bootable iso-images that don't boot on all (possibly older?) computers. The problem is in fai 5.3.6 (stretch) and 5.8.4 (buster). The solution is already described in fai-cd's man-page, make the pen-drive's first partition "bootable": # parted /dev/sdb set 1 boot on So please include this fix in the code of fai-cd as well and make the iso-image "bootable" - before writing to a pendrive: # parted /path/to/fai.iso set 1 boot on I can confirm the solution works on my Lenovo L530. Without the flag set my lapton does not boot at all, when I change the same ISO-image before dd-ing it to a pendrive then the fai-cd starts up as expected. So I can confirm making the image bootable fixes the issue. On my (customized) fai-server 'parted' is not installed by default, so you might want to add a dependency on 'parted' (or modify the image with a different command). Christian Meyer -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
