Re: Variable SERVER not set
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:53:15PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:01:41PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > > Exactly. But where is $SERVER defined? > > > > IIRC by the server-name setting of your dhcpd > > This one? > server-name "faiserver"; > > That could be possible, since I forgot to set it, AFAIR. I'm gonna try > this these days. Thx a lot. I set server-name and now it works :-) greets Jimmy -- Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public key at www.g-tec.co.at
Alpha now netbooting into FAI
Hi,
this is to notify you that I eventually succeeded - I got an Alpha
Compaq XP1000 to boot into FAI sysinfo using a home-built kernel.
I had to create an initrd (although I'm not referring to it later)
because without one the SRM console would barf.
I don't fully understand what happened, but at least I've got something
to play around with next week.
Thanks to Steve Langasek who pointed me to several small but helpful
things.
Thomas: as soon as I sorted things out I'll publish a 0th version of a
FAI-on-Alpha HOWTO. I'll get back to you for some details of the probing
procedure though.
Have a nice weekend,
Steffen
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Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI Gravitationsphysik, http://www.aei.mpg.de)
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Re: Variable SERVER not set
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:01:41PM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:49:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:11:27AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:27:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem > > > > with "Server not set". I always made a workaround by setting > > > In which log file do you get this error message? > > > > On the screen :-) > > The logfiles are only on the machine itself, which is not bootable at > > the momemt. > > so you would still be able to switch to tty2... Yes. > > Exactly. But where is $SERVER defined? > > IIRC by the server-name setting of your dhcpd This one? server-name "faiserver"; That could be possible, since I forgot to set it, AFAIR. I'm gonna try this these days. thx. greets Jimmy -- Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public key at www.g-tec.co.at
Re: Variable SERVER not set
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:49:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:11:27AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:27:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > > Hello, > > > I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem > > > with "Server not set". I always made a workaround by setting > > In which log file do you get this error message? > > On the screen :-) > The logfiles are only on the machine itself, which is not bootable at > the momemt. so you would still be able to switch to tty2... > Exactly. But where is $SERVER defined? IIRC by the server-name setting of your dhcpd Steffen
Re: Variable SERVER not set
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:11:27AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:27:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Hello, > > I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem > > with "Server not set". I always made a workaround by setting > In which log file do you get this error message? On the screen :-) The logfiles are only on the machine itself, which is not bootable at the momemt. > > "installserver=myserver_ip" so that the logs can be sent via ssh to > For sending the log, the variable LOGSERVER is used. When it's not > set, $SERVER is used. Exactly. But where is $SERVER defined? greets Jimmy -- Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public key at www.g-tec.co.at
Re: Variable SERVER not set
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 08:27:30AM +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:27:32PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem > > with "Server not set". > > I've been seeing this too, if there's another DHCP server responding > faster (working on a flat 172.16 network, this happens to happen). Not in my case. I've used my notebook as a FAI-server and connected the client with a patch-cable, directly :-) greets Jimmy -- Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get my public key at www.g-tec.co.at
Re: Variable SERVER not set
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:27:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hello, > I've done a few installations with FAI now but I still have the problem > with "Server not set". I always made a workaround by setting In which log file do you get this error message? > "installserver=myserver_ip" so that the logs can be sent via ssh to For sending the log, the variable LOGSERVER is used. When it's not set, $SERVER is used. -- regards Thomas
