hi, I am testing the upgrade of a lenny fai server to serve squeeze images. I am using the packages from the fai-project.org/squeeze.
# dpkg -l | grep -i fai ii fai-client 3.4.8 Fully Automatic Installation client package ii fai-doc 3.4.8 Documentation for FAI ii fai-quickstart 3.4.8 Fully Automatic Installation quickstart package ii fai-server 3.4.8 Fully Automatic Installation server package ii fai-setup-storage 3.4.8 automatically prepare storage devices I copied the /etc/fai folder to /etc/fai.squeeze, edited make-fai-nfsroot.conf to point to a config.squeeze and nfsroot.squeeze folder, exported those folders in nfs. I then recreated the nfsroot using the new config: # make-fai-nfsroot -C /etc/fai.squeeze Then I copied the initrd and vmlinuz files to the /srv/tftp/fai/ folder and modified the pxelinux.cfg/defaul file to point to the new kernel: default fai-generated label fai-generated kernel vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-486 append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.32-5-486 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot.squeeze boot=live FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,reboot FAI_ACTION=install Subsequently, I can now boot and install squeeze hosts, which is great. My problem is that I want to align the partitions (virtual environment, partitions must be well aligned or they wiil not perform ideally). So I change the disk_config file: disk_config disk1 align-at:4k disklabel:msdos primary / 150- ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro logical swap 200-1000 swap rw and reboot and then it fails: starting setup-storage 1.3 syntax error Using config file: /var/lib/fai/config/disk_config/FAIBASE Error in task partition. Traceback: task_error task_partition task task_install task task_action task main FATAL ERROR. Installation stopped If I remove the align-at:4k piece, it works, but then the partitions are not properly aligned. Something that surprises me is that during the installation I can read the FAI header and the version is not 3.4.8, but 3.4.7. Maybe is this the problem? Why is it using 3.4.7 when I upgraded to 3.4.8? Thanks in advance for your help. -- Groeten, natxo