Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Dr. Daniel Löb
Hello list, Following the wiki installation walkthrough at http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installation_walkthrough , using fai version 4.2.1 (problem also existed with 4.0.8~deb7u1) on wheezy, I've run into an interesting problem: Having set up everything for pxe boot (dhcp-server, tftp, target

Re: Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:20:40 +0200, Dr. Daniel Löb dan...@sardisverlag.de said: When I boot the target machine after that, it _should_ start fai but then drop into a root@none prompt. What it instead does is to show these two messages: Received 001a Kbyte, sorted 001a Kbyte,

Re: Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Dr. Daniel Löb
On 07/16/2014 03:53 PM, Thomas Lange wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:20:40 +0200, Dr. Daniel Löb dan...@sardisverlag.de said: When I boot the target machine after that, it _should_ start fai but then drop into a root@none prompt. What it instead does is to show these two messages:

Re: Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Dr. Daniel Löb
Hello Thomas, I've found a workaround, in the process identifying a likely cause of the problem. On a hunch, I created a bootable Etherboot USB stick, as described here: http://etherboot.org/wiki/removable Usually, this is done for systems with a network adapter that doesn't have pxe

Re: Can't start from RAM disk image

2014-07-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:48:01 +0200, Dr. Daniel Löb dan...@sardisverlag.de said: http://etherboot.org/wiki/removable I know this project. But gpxe (which is used by etherboot.org) is a dead project. If you need a more up-to-date version have a look at ipxe.org. It's the the fork of gpxe