RE: [External] Re: GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6

Honeywell Internal > The FAI classes are defined in class/. By default FAI defines the class > GRUB_PC if the architecture is i386 or amd64. You should try to change this to > GRUB_EFI in class/60-misc. > > -- > regards Thomas Thank you, Thomas. I downloaded the source code for FAI 5.3.6 and

RE: [External] Re: GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6

lues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6 Am 18.04.2018 um 00:28 schrieb Bob Apodaca: I think the first issue is FAI is setting the GRUB_PC class instead of the GRUB_EFI class and I'm not sure why. I am pretty sure this depends on how the installation was started. That means you will have to boo

RE: [External] Re: GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6

Subject: Re: GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6 Am 18.04.2018 um 00:28 schrieb Bob Apodaca: I think the first issue is FAI is setting the GRUB_PC class instead of the GRUB_EFI class and I'm not sure why. I am pretty sure this depends on how the installation was started. That mea

GRUB EFI blues - Debian 9/FAI 5.3.6

I have a Supermicro X11SAE motherboard with an M.2 SATA drive that requires UEFI to boot. I've created a bootable USB drive, I've changed the BIOS settings to use UEFI and I can boot and appear to install the system. However, the system will not boot after the install is completed and the system

debconf and exim4

Honeywell Internal I'm trying to pre-seed answers for exim4-config by creating a file in debconf/FAIBASE. For the most part, it appears to work. Here's the line that's giving me issues: $ grep other debconf/FAIBASE exim4-configexim4/dc_other_hostnamesstring However, when

RE: cryptsetup with FAI 4.3.1 (Debian Jessie)

From: linux-fai [mailto:linux-fai-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Bob Apodaca Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 8:48 AM To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Subject: cryptsetup with FAI 4.3.1 (Debian Jessie) I'm trying to make an encrypted partition and getting errors. Here are my files

RE: /tmp read-only with Debian Stretch and FAI 5.3.4

> For a 4.x kernel you need rootovl instead of aufs as kernel parameter. boot=live is now obsolete. That was the issue. Thanks.

/tmp read-only with Debian Stretch and FAI 5.3.4

I know there are several threads already going related to this topic, sorry to start another. I'm using a GRUB bootable USB stick to start FAI. I've already attempted the suggestions here: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2016-August/011454.html Here's my /etc/exports on the

RE: Recommended specs for a FAI server

Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 1:53 PM To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Subject: Recommended specs for a FAI server I browsed through the mailing list archive but could not find any infos on this: What would be the "recommended" specifications for a FAI server? I know these things can vary from one

RE: $ROOTCMD commands fail

>From: linux-fai [mailto:linux-fai-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Lange >Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 1:45 PM >To: fully automatic installation for Linux >Subject: Re: $ROOTCMD commands fail > >> On Wed, 18 May 2016 15:38:02 -0500, Michael Kriss

RE: setting up deb mirror

My apologies in advance, this e-mail client does not appear to permit bottom posting nor do I have the freedom to choose my e-mail client. I use a APT mirror and I put the settings in /etc/fai/apt/sources.list on the FAI server (this is for FAI 4.3.1). Once I do “fai-make-nfsroot” the file

Re: Hooks not working with 4.3.1?

Brilliant! It worked just as you suggested. Thanks! On 01/29/2016 12:21 AM, Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi Bob On 01/28/2016 08:31 PM, Bob Apodaca wrote: I can run the script with an interactive shell and it works. Any ideas? If I recall correctly, FAI is using run-parts with the "LSB&qu

Hooks not working with 4.3.1?

I am using FAI with Debian 8 ("Jessie") and each time I re-run fai-make-nfsroot my hooks are not run. I have them set-up as follows: # ls -l /etc/fai/nfsroot-hooks/ total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 197 Sep 15 09:31 scripts.sh The scripts.sh has the following: - #!/bin/sh install -g root -o

/etc/resolv.conf with FAI 4.3.1

During the installation, the /etc/resolv.conf file is not the file I expected. The FAI server does have the correct file, but the target has 2 files: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf-installserver The target is using DHCP, so I suspect the the resolv.conf is written when the IP address is

Re: putting a label on a disk

On 07/16/2015 09:22 AM, John G Heim wrote: All, Question related to those I asked earlier in the week... Can setup-storage put a label on a disk partition so that it can be mounted via the label rather than the uuid? I am guessing not beccause parted doesn't do that (as far as I can tell).

Re: installing to a wiped disk

On 07/10/2015 07:46 AM, John G Heim wrote: My setup-storage config is below. I copied it from a working FAI setup. Our current FAI server is debian wheezy with FAI 4.3.1. I'm setting up an ubuntu vivid server with FAI 4.3.3. I mentioned in another message that I happen to be blind. But I did

Re: initd error: touch: not found

On 05/28/2015 02:26 PM, Bob Apodaca wrote: I am using Debian Jessie (AMD64) and am getting the following message when the system reboots: /init: 401: /init: touch: not found I did a few searches and some seemed to suggest rebuilding the initrd. I've tried this, but it doesn't seem to help

How do you disable a service with systemd?

I am using Debian Jessie and things are going well, with a couple exceptions. I am installing lightdm, but on some systems I want to disable it. I was trying to do: systemctl disable lightdm However, systemd knows this is a chroot environment and the command fails. I've also tried the

initd error: touch: not found

I am using Debian Jessie (AMD64) and am getting the following message when the system reboots: /init: 401: /init: touch: not found I did a few searches and some seemed to suggest rebuilding the initrd. I've tried this, but it doesn't seem to help. Anyone else seen this?

Re: fai-installation with static ip-address

On 07/31/2014 03:50 AM, Werner Pommerer wrote: Hello, can anyone give an example, how to do a fai-installation with static ip-addresses for the clients? There are no dhcp-servers in our subnets, where the servers are. I have done this, though it was not the easiest task. My first step was

Re: fai-cd -B gives an error

On 05/28/2014 12:09 AM, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de wrote: Thank you. I am very interested. Could you explain in more detail for me? Werner I have created a bootable CD-ROM using GRUB, but I do not use fai-cd. I only use the CD-ROM to boot the kernel and load the initrd, after those

Re: fai-cd -B gives an error

On 05/26/2014 05:25 AM, Werner Pommerer wrote: Hello, I would like to create a boot only ISO image which does a network installation. fai-cd -B /tmp/test.iso NFSROOT /srv/fai/nfsroot mounted Found dracut inside nfsroot, but booting a FAI CD with dracut inside the nfsrroot does not yet

Nagios dependencies not installed

We are deploying Nagios and I attempted to add it to our base installation. The package is installed, but none of the dependencies are being installed. I did not see anything helpful in the installation log nor the error log. My package_config/FAIBASE file looks like this: PACKAGES aptitude

ifclass syntax within if statement

When installing AMD64 systems, I have created a small script: #!/bin/sh if ifclass AMD64 ; then # https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation $ROOTCMD dpkg --add-architecture i386 fi However, when the target system is installed it appears the command has not run: # dpkg

Re: Problems with wheezy installation on multi nic servers

On 08/26/2013 06:05 AM, Steffen Eichler wrote: Hi, I've installed a fai server with version 4.0.7. If I start a installation on a server with more than one network interface the following options in pxelinux.cfg APPEND initrd=initrd.img-3.2.0-4-amd64 ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs

Re: update to wheezy / r8169 card

Two things for you to check: 1. Perhaps a firmware issue, on Debian I found a package named firmware-realtek. 2. I have several systems with 2 network cards and there is an approximately 2 minute time-out when the second network card is not connected to a network where it can grab an

Use script in /usr/local/bin during install

Forgive me if this is a repeat, I sent this over 90 minutes ago and have not seen it yet. I need to run a custom script during an FAI install. My first thought was to install the script in NFSROOT/usr/local/bin. However, when I booted my install target /usr/local/bin was empty. I'd

Re: FAI with NFS v4 on Debian Wheezy

Thank you for the responses and I did not mean to imply this is an issue with FAI, just thought some others on the FAI list may have had some experience with it. I do have idmapd running on both the server and install client. It does not appear to be helping. I am going to try NFS v3. Bob

FAI with NFS v4 on Debian Wheezy

I have set-up an FAI server and have a client I am using to refine my files and scripts. The issue I am having is file and group ownership: ls -l /etc/cups/cupsd.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 4294967294 4670 Mar 14 13:51 cupsd.conf The nfsstat -m shows I am using NFS v4 on the client for the

Re: Creating GPT BIOS partition with FAI 4.0.6

On 03/19/2013 11:16 AM, andrew bezella wrote: unless this has changed in fai4, you would want to use disklabel:gpt-bios instead of gpt. the necessary bios_grub partition should then be created automatically. That's what I need to know. Thank you.