Re: LOGUSER is undefined

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:34:50 +0200 (CEST), Jean-mathieu CHANTREIN > said: > I haved install fai-server on debian buster. I add to /etc/fai/fai.conf this 2 line: > LOGUSER=fai > FAI_LOGPROTO=ssh This sets LOGUSER only for the FAI server. For the clients you have to set

Re: LOGUSER is undefined

> On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 12:34:50 +0200 (CEST), Jean-mathieu CHANTREIN > said: > P.S.: I want to propose pull request of the french traduction of fai-guide ( > http://fai-project.org/fai-guide-fr). I can't see this file on > https://github.com/faiproject/fai/tree/master/doc .

New ISO images using FAI 5.7

The new ISO images are now available, which still use kernel 4.9 but FAI 5.7. If you select to install Ubuntu, now Ubuntu 18.04 aka Bionic will be installed. Anyone still interested in installing Ubuntu 16.04 with the FAI images? -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-project.org repository not armhf enabled

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:16:57 +0200, Martin Krämer > said: > Unfortunately http://fai-project.org/download is not armhf enabled - due to this, > the packages fai packages cannot be updated from this repository. This is now fixed. The repository now also

Re: Alternatives in package_lists?

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:18:41 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > apt-get install "a | b" doesn't work. Maybe the equivs package will help to create a package including dependencies like a | b. -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI disk_config creating duplicate tmpfs entries in /etc/fstab

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:06:47 +0200, Pietro Stäheli > said: > I've set a tmpfs mountpoint for FAI installations in disk_config/FAIBASE as follows: > disk_config tmpfs > tmpfs /tmp RAM:20% defaults Oh, I never used a tmpfs definition in

Re: LVM setup on image creation

> On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 16:21:35 +0800, Kerwin Macrohon > said: > Hi Guys! > Was trying to create an image using LVM disk config but to no avail.  Is > this doable? Thank you! Yes. If you host does not have LVM, it's easy. If you host is also

Re: Ubuntu Artful

I've removed this very old wiki howto. There's the script mk-basefile in /usr/share/doc/fai-doc/examples/simple/basefiles/mk-basefile which is used for creating basefiles. Currently there's only an entry for Ubuntu xenial, but a similar one should work for 17.10. -- regards Thomas

FAI user references with nice logos

Hi folks, finally I have created a web page with a lot of logos from companies and organisations that are using FAI. Have a look at https://fai-project.org/references/ If you like to be also on this list, just fill out the questionnaire[1] and send it to me. If you already filled out the

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:40:16 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > 1. Is it possible to map "/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:11.4-ata-1" to >"disk1" (etc.) for easier reference later? Yes. I use a script class/99-disklist.sh for changing the list

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:08:32 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Talking about "path" - is there a trick to get multipath-tools installed > in the nfsroot? All my attempts fail due to initramfs not cooperating > with dracut. Just add the

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:09:49 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Thanks. Since the "find" command returns an unsorted list, how do you make sure > you get the right order? I do not care, since I only match on the model type of the disk, not

FAI 5.5.1 released

The new FAI 5.5.1 version is now available. Here are some of the changes: fcopy -S which does variable substitution in the form of {%varname%} now also executes a preinst script if available. You can now create ISO images greater 4GB. Syncing software raid devices during installation is now

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:34:33 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Bad news: I just learned that the systems will get CentOS installed. > While there's still an option to replace the system disks, and run > another installation (Debian 9 via

Re: /tmp read-only? FAI 5.5, Stretch, NFSv3

> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:09:03 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > after running several sysinfo FAI_ACTIONs with jessie setups (and "aufs" > in the append line), I decided the time has come to switch to Stretch. In stretch you need rootovl instead

Re: Keyboard problem, caps lock key does not work

Hi john, there's a config line in examples/simple/debconf/DEBIAN which includes the option nocaps. The whole line is keyboard-configuration keyboard-configuration/optionscode string ctrl:nocaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp -- regards Thomas

Re: fcopy resolv.conf in task_repository

> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:43:44 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > In subroutines/task_repository you fcopy /etc/resolv.conf. > It is possible to omit this? This can only be omited by rewriting task_repository or using a hook as you already did. > In

Re: Using FAI Profiles

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:34:52 -0600, Itamar Gal > said: > I'm a little unclear on how to use FAI profiles. I created a profile file: > /srv/fai/config/class/myprofile.profile FAI profiles are only used if the flag menu is used which is normally not done

Re: Using FAI Profiles

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 11:59:40 -0600, Itamar Gal > said: > Thanks for the response. No, I definitely don't want the curses menu. I was hoping that there was a command-line option. I guess I'm confused about > the purpose of the profiles; I thought they

Re: fai-make-nfsroot bug

> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 12:24:41 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > Just hit this minor bug in fai-server 5.3.6. > --- /usr/sbin/fai-make-nfsroot2018-02-02 13:06:52.0 + > +++ /var/tmp/fai-make-nfsroot 2018-02-05 20:23:41.370416545 +

Re: tasksel in basefiles

> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:05:18 +0100, Yann Bachy > said: > Can someone explain why tasksel packages are clearly announces useable in fai manual: > but the default mk-basefile script excludes tasksel from all debian distros > What is the

New FAI version and a new dracut version

In FAI version 5.5.4 the command fai-diskimage now supports raw.xz and raw.zst format and multiple threads when compressing these formats. The command fai-make-nfsroot has a new option -P which also preserves the ssh host keys from inside the nfsroot. I've also uploaded a new dracut version to

FAI 5.5.5

I found a minor bug in fai-make-nfsroot (in 5.5.4), so I released FAI 5.5.5. -- regards Thomas

Re: Missing Sections in FAI Documentation

Oh, these sections are empty since they were added. For the next FAI version I've added some text to them, but more information on these parts are in the chapter http://fai-project.org/fai-guide/#_a_id_install_a_fai_installs_your_plan > On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:24:04 -0600, Itamar Gal

Re: Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) headsup

> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 13:34:33 -0600, John G Heim > said: > devices, using netplan instead of ifupdown. Configuration is now written > as YAML files to /etc/netplan instead of in /etc/network/interfaces." OMG, that's why I do not like Ubuntu and why I only

Re: Ubuntu Artful

> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 20:11:30 +0100, Robert Markula > said: > # apt-get -y install pbuilder debootstrap > Then you create the basefile: > # pbuilder create | tee /root/pbuilder.log IMO this is too complicated. Why using pbuilder when debootstrap is

Re: Dual FAI Configurations

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 09:53:36 -0600, Itamar Gal said: > My thought was to replicate the FAI configuration files inside of my > ~/local directory and set the relevant FAI environment variables to > point to sub-directories of ~/local. Is there a way to do

Re: setup-storage fails on blank disk

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:53:40 +0100, Andreas Heinlein > said: > I have encountered a problem with setup-storage which occurs only when > the disk is blank, i.e. wiped with nwipe/dban or brand new. This is very strange. I would only expect problems, if the disk

Re: Several Questions

> On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:40:14 -0800, Bill MacAllister > said: > prevent fsck from running. Specifically metadata_csum is preventing > fsck from running. How would we specify a setup-storage to create file > systems without that option? This is already

Re: fai installation does not create correct /etc/hosts and /etc/network/interfacfes

> On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 07:49:33 +, Ralf Brinkmann > said: > The server created via the FAI ISO image has a faulty /etc/hosts and the /etc/network/interfacfes is not correct. In the nfsroot „/srv/stretch-default-cd/nfsroot/etc“ the hosts file is correct > an does contain all

Re: FAI 5.3.6 stretch: Predictable Network Interface Names

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:54:59 +0200, Alexander Bugl > said: > # less /var/log/fai/localhost/last/shell.log > = shell: DEBIAN/30-interface = > Device "ens192" does not exist. > DEBIAN/30-interface OK. I wonder which command prints the 'Device does not exist'

Re: FAI 5.3.6 stretch: Predictable Network Interface Names

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 09:44:00 +0200, Alexander Bugl > said: > P.S.: I use some more (minor) modifications for 30-interface, probably > you like to apply the attached patch? Thanks for your patch. It's now applied. -- regards Thomas

Re: regarding centos6 installation

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:11:15 +0300, Antanas Masevičius > said: > Error 14t: Filesystem compatibility error, cannot read whole file grub> quit This is the hint in the grub docu: error 14 : Filesystem compatibility error, cannot read whole file Some of the filesystem

Re: mmc

> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 10:30:17 +0200, Marc SCHAEFER > said: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 08:54:06PM +0100, linux service wrote: >> seems like making a partition on a mmc would be :mmcblk0p1, second partition: mmcblk0p2 > NB: maybe this was already integrated in FAI 5. Yes, this

FAI 5.7.1

A minor update of FAI was released ibncluding some bug fixes. A new feature was added. fai-diskimage now supports sparse images for android devices using the suffix .simg. -- regards Thomas

Re: Setup Storage RAID problem

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:31:14 -0700, Bill MacAllister > said: > Executing: yes | mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=raid1 --force --run > --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sda3 > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > [info] Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2. This i

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Hi John, I didn't manage to get network booting using UEFI without grub but with syslinux running. I copied the syslinux.efi and ldlinux.e64 into my tftp directory. Using tcpdump I see that the UEFI is getting the syslinux.efi file (even I use a different name and a symlink). I do not see any

Re: UEFI TFTP/PXELINUX on thinkpad X230

I found a solution! Use syslinux.efi and ldlinux.e64 from experimental The files can be found in those package versions syslinux-common_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-3_all.deb syslinux-efi_6.04~git20171011.af7e95c3+dfsg1-3_all.deb Now UEFI netowrk boot works with my Thinkpad X230 with the new

UEFI TFTP/PXELINUX on thinkpad X230

The Thinkpad X230 does not boot in UEFI only mode (no legacy/CSM mode) via network card. This happens with BIOS 2.60 and also with the newest BIOS 2.73. It only loads syslinux.efi and then no more tftp requests are seen on the tftp server and the Thinkpad hangs. -- regards Thomas

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

Ok, I found a bug. My Thinkpad X230 does not work correctly using UEFI. Using a Dell notebook shows, that my tftp, DHCP setup is correct and loads ldlinux.e64 and then the pxelinux.cfg/. config files. -- regards Thomas

Re: UEFI + Legacy BIOS TFTP/PXELINUX

The current version of 60-misc now uses this code if [ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]; then echo GRUB_EFI elif ifclass -o I386 AMD64 ; then echo GRUB_PC fi -- regards Thomas

FAI setup for BeeGFS with ZFS, Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:03:04 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Still, FAI doesn't seem to offer an option to handle unpartitioned disks to > be formatted as ext4 (I couldn't find any documentation involving "raw-disk" Here's an example line:

New FAIme feature

The FAIme build service now supports packages from the backports repository. When selecting the stable distribution, you can also enable backports packages. The installation image will then use the kernel from backports (currently 4.14) and you can add additional packages by adding

Re: Use of /dev/disk/by-path/... in disk_config?

> On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:04:27 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > dracut* zfs-dracut* > The following NEW packages will be installed: > initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core klibc-utils libaio1

changes in the git structure of the FAI sources

Last weekend during the Chemnitzer Linuxtage I worked hard with Juri who convinced me to split the FAI git repository into two parts using a git submodule. The FAI config space examples are now hosted in a separate git repository using the URL https://github.com/faiproject/fai-config.git This

Re: GRUB failing install after encryption

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:12:37 -0300, Davinder Chandhok > said: > After I configured the disk with LVM and encryption as shown below (and suggested by another member in a previous thread, suddenly my GRUB was not installing correctly. I'm not sure what

Re: Some packages not installing, but are in Ubuntu repos!

> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:19:38 -0300, Davinder Chandhok > said: > Package list file (named for one of my classes): > https://pastebin.com/mQmsVs7p Wow, I never saw someone who's using a version number for every package. Any reason why you did this? In

FAI.me service now supports creation of VM disk images

A few days ago, the new feature of the FAI.me build service was added. Additionally to creating an installation image, FAI.me can now build bootable disk images. These disk images can be booted in a VM like KVM, Virtualbox or VMware or openstack. You can define a disk image size, select a

Re: Bug/solved: Problem with multiple NICs with FAI

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 22:06:45 +0100, Christian Meyer said: > in the meantime I'm rather sure, that this is a bug. Please think about > it. > task_confdir fails in "line 822: /sys/class/net/$NIC1/address", when > there is more that one NIC and routing gives

Re: Adding ROS repos

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:48:27 -0300, Davinder Chandhok > said: > I am attempting to include the ROS repos to install packages from there on my > client. I added entries to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list. Am I mistaken? Also, can > I use the following

Re: Installing Packages (e.g. docker-ce) from a 3rd Party Repository

> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 13:18:23 -0600, Itamar Gal > said: > Here is my solution attempt. I decided to create an FAI class called DOCKER for this installation. >     # Add the Docker repository >     sudo add-apt-repository \ >     "deb [arch=amd64]

Re: pip install

> On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:06:36 -0600, John G Heim > said: > Huh, maybe I don't understand the question. But can't the OP just run > pip install via ROOTCMD? Yes this may be possible. I'm not sure which environment pip needs. But this is a good idea to test

Re: pip install

> On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:48:25 +0100, "BACHY Yann" > said: > Is there a native way in FAI to do something like this ? No. > Or should I create an self-destructing bash script which will only run at first boot of the machine ? Yes, that's the way I

Re: i386 nfsroot - dracut depends error

First check your /etc/fai/apt/sources.list ^^^ You should use the fai-project.org repo here. -- regards Thomas

Re: i386 nfsroot - dracut depends error

> On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 11:58:34 +0200, Martin Krämer > said: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >  dracut: Depends: dracut-core (>= 047-2) but 044+241-3 is to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. My

Re: Additional repository keys

> On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:45:58 +0200, Andreas Heinlein > said: > Would it be possible to patch FAI to copy over .gpg files as well? Yes. Do you like to create a patch for this? -- regards Thomas

Re: Non-X86 architectures?

> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:04:12 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > is there anyone using FAI to install on architectures that are not X86*? > (I had hacked some support for alpha more than a dozen years ago but those > machines are long gone -

RE: [External] Re: GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 17:55:13 +, Bob Apodaca > said: > if test -d /sys/firmware/efi ; then > echo GRUB_EFI > fi I've added this now to class/60-misc. -- regards Thomas

RE: [External] Re: GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6

> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:13:13 +, Bob Apodaca > said: > At this point, I think getting GRUB to install is the main issue. If I could get FAI to create GRUB_EFI that would be wonderful as well. The FAI classes are defined in class/. By default FAI

Re: FAI splash screen / GUI

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:35:27 +0200, Christian Meyer said: > Is there a way to hide FAI messages during installation and just show > an nice looking image or animation (e.g. just showing the current > task)? First remove verbose from the FAI_FLAGS. When you will

Re: Re: Adding ROS repos (Thomas Lange)

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:21:23 -0300, Davinder Chandhok > said: > This resolved the permissions, but I now it does not access python or conda. Maybe I don't have the right directory or path set? Do you get any error message? -- regards Thomas

Re: FAI.me service now supports creation of VM disk images

> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:43:30 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > But it currently downloads the compressed file and stores the > compressed file, it doesn't even try to decompress it. I would call this a bug in openstack. It should be so clever to decompress

fai-project.org downtime

There may be a downtime of all fai-project.org domains tomorrow (sat) from 8am to 2pm local time (CET) due to some work on our power supply. I will get some USV, but I'm not sure if everything will work as expected. -- regards Thomas

Re: Several Questions

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:29:37 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > Any chance of setting some default createopts from an environment > variable? I use generic disk_configs, like QEMU_GUEST for any distro if > an VM is being built. It'd be nice to not have to

FAI 5.6

The new FAI release 5.6 includes following important change: * When installing the package fai-server, use the repository from fai-project.org by default for building the nfsroot * fai-make-nfsroot: support ED25519 instead of DSA keys New packages are available in Debian unstable and in

Re: Alternatives in package_lists?

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 17:34:23 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Is it possible to specify "a | b" in a package_config file, so that "a" > gets installed if available, and "b" otherwise? FAI only creates a long list of package names and then calls

Re: variable names in FAI

> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:10:46 +0200, Martin Krämer > said: > Looking at https://wiki.fai-project.org/index.php/Variables I am wondering if there is some logic behind the naming of the variables within FAI? > When is a variable written in uppercase, when in lowercase? >

Re: Network interface names

Have a look at this script https://github.com/faiproject/fai-config/blob/master/scripts/DEBIAN/30-interface Does this help you? -- regards Thomas

Re: Ubuntu 18.04: netplan support

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:05:18 +0200, Robert Markula > said: > Two questions arose so far: > 1. Is the 'UBUNTU' class intended to be complementing the 'DEBIAN' class > or does it completely replace the DEBIAN class? yes, it is complementing the Debian class. > 2.

Re: Issue with dracut 048 and Ubuntu

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:31:28 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > The nfsroot: Stretch, FAI 5.7.2 and initially dracut 048. > The server: Ubuntu Trusty (I know), with FAI 5.3.2 from the FAI PPA. > The root cause of my issue was that fai-make-nfsroot bailed out of >

Re: nfsroot with kernel 3.X vs 4.X and kernel tftp options

> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:03:24 +0200, Rémy Dernat said: > If I use a kernel 3.X (3.16.0-6-amd64) created with another fai server, my clients boot fine, but if I try to create a kernel 4.9.0-8, my clients > are always stuck in a "read only file system" error ( The exact error message

Re: Including other signed Debian repositories (with https)

> On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 10:08:57 +0200, Christian Meyer said: > I wanted to add my own (signed) Debian repository to get some > customized packages in my FAI-installations. Do you want to install the packages into the nfsroot or install them on the install clients? -- regards Thomas

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:34:34 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: >> I suggest you to retrieve the version of SYSLINUX 6.04; look here for more >> informations : >> https://groups.google.com/a/lbl.gov/forum/#!msg/warewulf/klTLgX-L4nw/IJZo3-jgAAAJ Now I rembember that not the

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

>>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 15:31:44 +0200, Steffen Grunewald >>>>> said: > On Mon, 2018-09-03 at 14:44:54 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > I remember that the "legacy" sysinfo run also took a long while to get started, > so it might

Re: UEFI issues booting into FAI sysinfo on Dell PowerEdge

> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 14:26:49 +0200, Steffen Grunewald > said: > After finding how to distinguish between BIOS and UEFI PXE requests, and > setting up the DHCP/TFTP server accordingly, it was only "yet another step" > to find and add ldlinux.e64 to get the machine booting.

Re: FAI abort triggered

> On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:14:58 +0200, Sebastiaan Dewilde > said: > Hello, > We've been using FAI for many years now and we've now encountered an unknown problem in our setup. Namely before starting > the actual FAI installation the install triggers the fai-abort. Did you

Re: Installing dracut on the install client

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:10:06 +0100, Robert Markula > said: > anyone succeeded in installing dracut on a Debian stretch client using FAI? I'm installing all my machines using dracut. I have this line in my package_config file: dracut initramfs-tools- -- regards Thomas

Re: fai-setup: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:51:31 +0100, Fabian Keil > said: > I'm trying to setup FAI on Debian GNU/Linux 8 i386 using > fai-server 5.3.6~bpo8+1. > fai-setup -v fails with: >After this operation, 312 MB of additional disk space will be used. >E: You don't have

Re: A couple of questions about deploying opensuse 42.3 via FAI

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 11:28:40 +, Matteo Guglielmi > said: > using 'mk-basefile' and some modified rinse files in /etc/rinse and > /usr/lib/rinse. It would be nice to submit the patches for rinse to me or to the Debian bug tracking system. > Is it possible to have dbus

Re: A couple of questions about deploying opensuse 42.3 via FAI

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 13:58:10 +, Matteo Guglielmi > said: > I built a server which can actually install all > these distros from scratch: Wow, a nice list of distributions. > If you have a place (email?) where I can upload all > this, I would be glad to share it

Re: how to diagnose installed FAI server

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:33:59 +0100, "e.fernb...@gmx.net" > said: > When connecting a client with PXE boot (Realtex PXE B04 D00) it shows > the DHCP ... and a circling I for a while then PXE exits with the "boot > failure" message. I think you need to debug some networking

Getting closer but no cigar yet, Re: Install ZFS root with FAI?

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:41:37 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Is there a trick in FAI to force an installation order? FAI itself does only create long list of package names that are then feed to apt, aptitude or apt-get. These tools then decide in which order to install the

Re: Issue Stretch nfsroot on Trusty

> On Sat, 01 Dec 2018 09:40:24 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > Cool, thank you. But, it does occur to me that this'll only help if the > PPA for Ubuntu is updated. ;) It's a pitty that currently noone updates the PPA. I did several times a call for help but still it's very hard

Re: Issue Stretch nfsroot on Trusty

> On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:37:47 +1300, Andrew Ruthven > said: > This is building a stretch nfsroot on a trusty server. > I've just run debootstrap manually as: > sudo debootstrap stretch test http://debian.catalyst.net.nz/debian > I: Retrieving Release > I:

Re: /target/boot not getting mounted correctly during install

> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 17:21:18 +0100, Robert Markula > said: > There seems to be a race condition in task_mountdisks for this specific > situation: > > Calling task_mountdisks > Mounting UUID=5fb71b06-e912-43c8-b6ec-06d39178b033 to /target/boot > Mounting

Re: Lenovo M720S boot problem

> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:07:33 +0100, Nicolas Renault - OPENinfo > said: > I forget to add lib/modules/4.15.0-29-generic  to the nfsroot. > now final problems ( I think) : > the FAI cannot create /tmp/fai and /target filesystem is read only  Please check if the Ubuntu kernel

Re: Installation over serial console : menu of profile not working as expected

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 22:02:44 -0300, Sébastien Grenier > said: > I suspect the problem is with this script... > https://github.com/faiproject/fai-config/blob/master/class/40-parse-profiles.sh I also think that the problem is there. Can you try to write the value of the

Re: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 15:25:34 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > New one, dosent work: > lsinitramfs initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 |grep -i nfs > sbin/fsck.nfs Is this the initrd from inside the nfsroot? This is my output: > lsinitrd

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 09:07:14 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > Sorry. > At the Debain Bug Tracker for dracut, i read a bug ticket which discusses the warning " ignored null byte in input " with dracut an bash 4.4 > as i remember you wrote that this ist solved in current

Re: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 08:20:00 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > lsinitramfs /srv/tftp/fai/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 | grep -i nfs > sbin/fsck.nfs I use lsinitrd, not lsinitramfs -- regards Thomas

Re: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

I use the same fai-make-nfsroot version. I have these dracut modules in my initrd: dracut modules: bash network ifcfg url-lib dm dmsquash-live kernel-modules kernel-network-modules livenet overlay-root qemu qemu-net lunmask nfs rootfs-block terminfo udev-rules base fs-lib img-lib livenet is

Re: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 07:32:16 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#Dracut_kernel_command_line_parameters > and > https://people.redhat.com/harald/dracut.html#NetworkBoot > we need pakage " dracut-network" for

Re: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

> On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 14:52:34 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > fai-chboot -v -I -F -s4.9.0-8-amd64 -u nfs://fai.fai.scm/srv/fai/config default > Booting with it result in an dracut error: > dracut Warning: dracut: FATAL: Don't know hoe to handle

FAI 5.7.3

The new version of FAI is available. It includes a some changes in setup-storage. It you use luks during partitioning, the cipher is not set by FAI, but the default of cryptsetup is used. Before FAI set it to aes-cbc-essiv:sha256, currently the default of cryptsetup is aes-xts-plain64. I've also

Re: manually restarting install?

> On Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:43:42 -0600, John G Heim > said: > If the config space fails to mount during an install, can I restart the > install by hand after manually mounting the config space? I never tried this, I always call faireboot. -- regards Thomas

Re: Problem with setup-storage preserving an existing LVM over RAID volume

It will take some effort to debug this. The initrd (created by dracut) may also detect and active softraid and lvm. I'm not sure if this really happens. I remember that we already had some issue with raid or lvm activated by dracut and then setup-storage could handle this later on. BTW, which

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 08:54:45 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > without "-s" i got: > Setting up dracut (048+80-1) ... > /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/45url-lib/module-setup.sh: line 33: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input > dracut-install: ERROR:

FAI 5.7.2

The new FAI version adds the option -y to setup-storage. This option writes a disk_var.yml file which is the disk_var.sh in YAML format. This option is not used by default. -- regards Thomas

Re: Installing dracut on the install client

>>>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:34:19 +0100, Robert Markula >>>>> said: > Am 23.01.19 um 08:07 schrieb Thomas Lange: >> > anyone succeeded in installing dracut on a Debian stretch client using FAI? >> I'm installing all

FAI and Debian Buster (was Re: New ISO images available)

> On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 08:28:18 +0200, Andreas Heinlein > said: > I don't really need ISO images, but if someone has been successful on > installing buster with FAI, I'd be happy to hear. I've done several buster installations for a client using buster. > I am currently in

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