Re: fai 4.1 can't boot with multi ethernet box
On 02/07/2014 02:08 PM, Thomas Lange wrote:
On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:56:15 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili
said:
> Just tried the new FAI 4.1 installed on a wheezy box.
> nfsroot has FAI4.1 packages installed.
> It seems that dracut fails to detect the correct interface on a multi
> ethernet server.
See https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-March/010022.html
From man dracut.cmdline:
ip=:_{dhcp|on|any|dhcp6|auto6}_[:[][:__]]
You can say: ip=eth1:dhcp
or even specify the MAC address with dracut.
yes, worked like a charm!, I start to like dracut :)
> dracut: Mounted root filesystem 192.168.0.40:/srv/fai/nfsroot
> aufs 3.2.x
> warning can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> dracut: Switching root
> switch_root: failed to execute /sbin/init: Not a directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing ...
This can also happen if it tires to do a NFS v4 mount. So, first check
if you see a mount request on the FAI install server. If yes, you may
have this NFSv4 problem. See these hints
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-January/009899.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676883#10
That was it, after fixing nfs options on the server side all works as
expected.
Thank you a lot,
Alex
Re: fai 4.1 can't boot with multi ethernet box
> On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:56:15 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili
> said:
> Just tried the new FAI 4.1 installed on a wheezy box.
> nfsroot has FAI4.1 packages installed.
> It seems that dracut fails to detect the correct interface on a multi
> ethernet server.
See https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-March/010022.html
>From man dracut.cmdline:
ip=:_{dhcp|on|any|dhcp6|auto6}_[:[][:__]]
You can say: ip=eth1:dhcp
or even specify the MAC address with dracut.
> dracut: Mounted root filesystem 192.168.0.40:/srv/fai/nfsroot
> aufs 3.2.x
> warning can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
> dracut: Switching root
> switch_root: failed to execute /sbin/init: Not a directory
> Kernel panic - not syncing ...
This can also happen if it tires to do a NFS v4 mount. So, first check
if you see a mount request on the FAI install server. If yes, you may
have this NFSv4 problem. See these hints
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-January/009899.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676883#10
--
P.S.: I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you
please fill out the FAI questionnaire
http://fai-project.org/questionnaire and send it back to me when
you finished a project with fai.
regards Thomas
fai 4.1 can't boot with multi ethernet box
Hi All, Just tried the new FAI 4.1 installed on a wheezy box. nfsroot has FAI4.1 packages installed. It seems that dracut fails to detect the correct interface on a multi ethernet server. in the past I could solve the issue by defining in the /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf the following: DEVICE=eth0 Is there a way to do the same with dracut ? That's what happening during boot: kernel is loaded via pxe, all fine than I get the following starting dhcp for interface eth0 ... links becomes ready, dhcp failed and so on till eth3, after that I get the following: dracut: Mounted root filesystem 192.168.0.40:/srv/fai/nfsroot aufs 3.2.x warning can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory dracut: Switching root switch_root: failed to execute /sbin/init: Not a directory Kernel panic - not syncing ... if I try with live nfsroot ( make-fai-nfsroot -l ) than at the end I am getting a shell and can see that faiserver is actually mounted to the client and the very last line in /run/initramfs/idsosreport.txt is: dracut Warning: Could not boot. any hint ? thanks, Alex
Re: UEFI boot
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 19:10:54 +0100, Meik Hellmund > said: > I tried a FAI installation with UEFI clients. > What I did in the end is surely not optimal. But perhaps > it's interesting for some people on this list > or you can give me some advice when I didn't do things > the "fai way". Instead of trying PXE and grub efi I would ask the ipxe project what kind of EFI support ipxe currently has. -- regards Thomas
