Re: BIOS

2007-08-16 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 05:44:49PM +0200, Henning Fehrmann wrote: > > We worked a while on the problem of flashing a bios and writing into the > nvram of the motherboard. > Here is a recipe which is still under development. Maybe somebody needs it. Congratulations for getting thus far! > Create

Re: BIOS

2007-08-16 Thread Henning Fehrmann
Hello, > > This IMHO could be done without touching a real disk's MBR using a file > (untested). Copying the MBR was basically the first method which worked. According to the docu of memdisk, if you want to use arbitrary image sizes, it has to be hd image with mbr and partition table. > > > IIR

Re: softupdate needs -N

2007-08-16 Thread Henning Sprang
Per Foreby wrote: > Hi, > > posting here instead of filing a bug report since I don't know if this > is a bug or me doing something wrong. > > In previous fai versions, softupdate worked without -N after a fresh > install. In 3.1.8 "fai softupdate" gives me the following error: > > Try to read

Re: softupdate needs -N

2007-08-16 Thread Henning Glawe
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Per Foreby wrote: > In previous fai versions, softupdate worked without -N after a fresh > install. In 3.1.8 "fai softupdate" gives me the following error: > > Try to read classes from /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES. Failed. Aborting. > > Adding -N solved th

Re: softupdate needs -N

2007-08-16 Thread Per Foreby
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Henning Glawe wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Per Foreby wrote: In previous fai versions, softupdate worked without -N after a fresh install. In 3.1.8 "fai softupdate" gives me the following error: Try to read classes from /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES. Faile