Hy, While the ubuntu warty install from a sarge server with FAI 2.6.5 was easier than expected, I'm now pretty much stuck while trying to install hoary(the ubuntu devel stream) with FAI 2.6.6 from a sarge server - everything else completely the same as with the warty install.
I get some errors from sfdisk like that: --- format.log start --- [...] Disks found: hdaWarning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. [...] Warning: The partition table looks like it was made for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 77520/16/63). For this listing I'll assume that geometry. sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed. (If you really want this, use the --force option.) SFDISK ERROR: Disk /dev/hda: 77520 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 8 9- 72261 83 Linux /dev/hda2 9 66 58 465885 83 Linux [... - showing the whole disk layout here ] New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 63 144584 144522 83 Linux /dev/hda2 144585 1076354 931770 83 Linux [... - showing the same disk layout with some different numbers ] --- format.log end --- That's where I run out of ideas for now. A problem I already solved (for the interested :) ) was this: ubuntu doesn't have support for 2.4 Kernels and therefore no modutils package for them, only for 2.6.X Kernels, therefore in the first try now disk had been found at all, and there where some broken symlinks to insmod.modutils - sorry, I don't remember the exact location and error ( wil reeproduce if anybody is interested), but make-fai-nfsroot went well and it took a while until i had the idea that ubuntu might lacking 2.4 support. Henning