On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 11:35:15 +0100, Robert Markula wrote: > Hi Steffen, > > great to hear! Maybe you could write it up in the FAI wiki when you're > ready so things don't get lost in the mailman archive?
I've written up something (6 pages plain text), and eventually found the wiki itself, but now I need to get write access first. Is this the right place to ask for it? Cheers, Steffen > > Cheers, > > > Robert > > > Am 18.12.18 um 10:22 schrieb Steffen Grunewald: > > Finally, I succeeded. > > > > Boot mode set to Legacy, PXE boot into FAI, with classes, hooks > > and scripts. > > It will take a few more days to iron out minor mistakes, before > > I can start to make this public ;) > > > > I will write up everything I did. Basically, I used input from > > the following documents, with a few own ideas, and suggestions > > from this list added: > > - "Debian Stretch Root on ZFS" (github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki) > > - "ZFS Install Guide" (www.funtoo.org) > > - "Booting a ZFS Root via UEFI on Debian" (www.thecrosseroads.net) > > > > Somehow I failed to get /boot/efi mounted at the right point when > > I ran an almost identical install with UEFI enabled, but I'm > > lucky that my SuperMicro hardware still has a Legacy mode. > > > > I'd like to ask for your patience - tomorrow is my last working > > day for this year, and there are lost of (non-FAI, non-ZFS) > > problems to be settled. > > > > Enjoy the time with family, friends or just private projects. > > > > See you next year then! > > Cheers, > > Steffen > > > >>> Setting up a root zpool mirroring three disks, I get > >>> BOOT_DEVICE="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805104HX128BGN > >>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805102QH128BGN > >>> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805007K6128BGN" > >>> 10-setup although converts this to > >>> GROOT="(hostdisk//dev/sda) (hostdisk//dev/sdm) (hostdisk//dev/sdn)" > >>> grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for hostdisk//dev/sda. > >>> Check your device.map. > >>> but I remember having seen a different problem then. Got to rinse > >>> and repeat. > >> Actually what I might have been missing is the addition of a BIOS boot > >> partition > >> to the GPT, as described in https://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide - I > >> will > >> add that to the mountdisks hook, and rerun the installation. > >>> BTW, as the linux-headers package gets consistently installed after the > >>> spl-dkms one, a trick similar to the nfsroot hook described earlier is > >>> also necessary to get the modules built inside the target chroot. > >> Is there a trick in FAI to force an installation order? > -- Steffen Grunewald, Cluster Administrator Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) Am Mühlenberg 1 * D-14476 Potsdam-Golm * Germany ~~~ Fon: +49-331-567 7274 Mail: steffen.grunewald(at)aei.mpg.de ~~~