On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 13:04:44 +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an ARM64 server that doesn't do PXE properly, and (of course...) > I don't have a second ARM64 machine at hand to prepare a FAI CD. > The NFSROOT already exists. > Is it possible to run fai-cd on AMD64, with some setup/config tricks, to > create an ISO image that can be booted on the ARM machine, or do I have > to find something with the right architecture (a RasPi running Debian > probably would do)?
Answering myself: Cross-platform doesn't work since "grub-mkstandalone" would throw an "exec format error". Running "fai-cd" on arm64 doesn't work since it has x86_64 and i386 hardcoded. Any alternative to create a bootable stick for this arm64 machine, to mount a remote nfsroot and access a remote config tree? (Just take an installer stick image and replace the kernel and initrd, and provide a kernel commandline?) - S