Re: no IP address
From: "Thomas Lange" To: "linux-fai" Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:20 PM Subject: Re: no IP address On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:36:39 -0500, "John G. Heim" said: > Its the FAI version from debian testing, 3.4.8. I generated an iso file via > the fai-cd command because I need to modify the > initrd to load a speakup screen reader module. Hi John, yep, I remember that you need the speakup module. In 3.4.8 we changed the menu.lst for the fai CD. Before it contained the parameters: ip=192.168.1.1:eth0:off or similar. But the ip= parameter did not worked with new live-boot versions, so it was completely removed. Now we also use grub2 and grub.cfg. I hope this helps for now -- regards Thomas Well, I've made a little progress. I modified the grub.conf in /etc/fai and I see that the grub.cnf file in the iso file reflects the changes I made. So the man page for fai-cd says fai-cd uses the file /usr/share/fai/menu.lst but, apparently, that is depricated. You need to edit /etc/fai/grub.conf instead. I modified the file /detc/fi/grub.conf and added ip=:eth0:dhcp to each of the lines that said boot=live. But it did not seem to work. The live-boot man page says the ip= parameter should work. I mean, I don't know if my configuration is correct but its still supported according to the live-boot man page.
Re: no IP address
> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:36:39 -0500, "John G. Heim" > said: > Its the FAI version from debian testing, 3.4.8. I generated an iso file via > the fai-cd command because I need to modify the > initrd to load a speakup screen reader module. Hi John, yep, I remember that you need the speakup module. In 3.4.8 we changed the menu.lst for the fai CD. Before it contained the parameters: ip=192.168.1.1:eth0:off or similar. But the ip= parameter did not worked with new live-boot versions, so it was completely removed. Now we also use grub2 and grub.cfg. I hope this helps for now -- regards Thomas
Re: no IP address
From: "Thomas Lange" To: "linux-fai" Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:23 AM Subject: Re: no IP address On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:49:01 -0500, "John G. Heim" said: > into an FAI install? I have a test machine that boots into linux and gets an > IP address via DHCP. But when i boot into an FAI install via a CDROM, it > drops into the initramfs shell and says it couldn't find a live file system. Mmm. do you have more detailed error messages? Have a look at live.log. Is this the original FAI CD from the project web page? Which FAI version? Its the FAI version from debian testing, 3.4.8. I generated an iso file via the fai-cd command because I need to modify the initrd to load a speakup screen reader module. The live.log file containes one line: Begin: Running /scripts/live-premount ... done.
Re: no IP address
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:49:01 -0500, "John G. Heim" > said: > into an FAI install? I have a test machine that boots into linux and gets an > IP address via DHCP. But when i boot into an FAI install via a CDROM, it > drops into the initramfs shell and says it couldn't find a live file system. Mmm. do you have more detailed error messages? Have a look at live.log. Is this the original FAI CD from the project web page? Which FAI version? -- regards Thomas
