Re: dhcp issue...
Hi Andreas, you should check if the dhcp request from the client (which are technical bootpc packets are received on the dhcp server. Does the dhcp server have more than one network card? Then check /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server if the dhcp server is listening on all interfaces. # tcpdump -pnlqte udp and src port bootpc and broadcast You should also see some messages in the log of the dhcp server, for e.g. if the server receives the request but has no free IP addresses. In addition to tcpdump there's also dhcpdump for debugging. -- best regards Thomas
mke2fs hung
Hello all. Seems the first install on (used) bare metal HW found a problem. Previous tests with a VM worked OK. During the first reinstall on a bare metal server that already contained an installed system, mke2fs hung. I switched to a second console to look at the issue and found that stderr tmpfile for mke2fs contains "Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda2" and stdio tmpfile "prompts" with "Proceed anyway? (n/Y)". Giving a 'y' in the main console lets it proceed, but it shouldn't have stopped. It seems the wipefs -af /dev/sda* before parted is not enough. Maybe a second wipefs is needed between parted and mkfs [*]? IIUC it's quite a corner case (new gpt partition overlapping an old dos extended partition), but probably it's better to handle it. [*] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394984/partition-still-encrypted-with-luks-after-wipefs/394999#394999 HIH. -- Diego Zuccato DIFA - Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia Servizi Informatici Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna - Italy tel.: +39 051 20 95786
Re: fai-make-nfsroot docs and missing reboot
Hi Diego, Moreover, at the end of the install, after saying there were no errors, FAI asked to press ENTER to reboot, but IIUC that should me automatic, w/o manual confirmation: docs at https://fai-project.org/fai-guide/#_a_id_faiflags_a_fai_flags says that "If no errors occurred, the client will always reboot automatically." and that seems not to be the case (but it's exactly what I wanted: no error = boot into newly installed SO w/o any interaction, while specifying 'reboot' seems to suggest that it reboots also in case of errors). In your template (e.g. /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/DEFAULT.tmpl or whereever your tftp root lies) you have to add 'reboot' to your 'FAI_FLAGS'. My DEFAULT.tmpl looks like this: # generated by fai-chboot for host default with IP no IP default fai-generated label fai-generated kernel vmlinuz-4.19.0-17-amd64 append initrd=initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 ip=dhcp root=10.12.0.1:/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3 rootovl FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://10.12.0.1/srv/fai/config FAI_ACTION=install 'sshd' allows me to SSH into the machine during install, with 'createvt' I can switch to a dedicated virtual terminal during install and 'reboot' instructs FAI to reboot at the end of the installation process instead of waiting for someone to press 'enter'. Robert
fai-make-nfsroot docs and missing reboot
Hello all. FAI noob here, please be patient :) Reading man page for fai-make-nfsroot it seems 'FULL' install is the default. But after having troubles adding Salt repository (could not verify server certificate), I noticed that ca-certificates (installed only in FULL nfsroot) was not present. After using fai-make-nfsroot -k -c FULL it works. That makes me suspect that the actual default is -s . Could the man page be improved by specifying which is the case? Moreover, at the end of the install, after saying there were no errors, FAI asked to press ENTER to reboot, but IIUC that should me automatic, w/o manual confirmation: docs at https://fai-project.org/fai-guide/#_a_id_faiflags_a_fai_flags says that "If no errors occurred, the client will always reboot automatically." and that seems not to be the case (but it's exactly what I wanted: no error = boot into newly installed SO w/o any interaction, while specifying 'reboot' seems to suggest that it reboots also in case of errors). Tks. -- Diego Zuccato DIFA - Dip. di Fisica e Astronomia Servizi Informatici Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna V.le Berti-Pichat 6/2 - 40127 Bologna - Italy tel.: +39 051 20 95786
