Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-23 Diskussionsfäden Jean Spirat
are you sure, that the initrd you are booting via pxe is really the one you have changed? I also need changes to the initrd and as there is currently no established method in FAI to do this. I use NFSROOT_HOOKS to run a script at the end of make-fai-nfsroot, which sets up the initramfs hooks, re

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-19 Diskussionsfäden Ralf Utermann
Jean Spirat wrote: [...] > without needing manual tweaking for it :) > > Also i have issues because initramfs cannot mount the /live I have > > /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/aoetools > > /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/a

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jean Spirat wrote: > I agree that this is not a setup that is seen everywhere and i would > really like to see FAI support this i am sure this is not so much > complicated but i lack knowledge on the live initramsfs part. > Do you know where is the bes

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-17 Diskussionsfäden Jean Spirat
I guess it would be interesting for FAI if we could claim to work with AOE SAN's - but I also guess you will not get too much help with it - mainly lacking experience, not willingness to help - I didn't see AOE being mentioned here before. yes thanks for your insight on this. I agree that

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-17 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jean, Jean Spirat wrote: > Basicaly it want to remove the mountpoint. As I said, you'd have to change a line looking something like "rm -rf $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir to something like rm -rf $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir/* > i have an AOE targe

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-17 Diskussionsfäden Jean Spirat
Thomas Lange a écrit : On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:03:44 +0100, Jean Spirat said: > I am trying to build a nfsroot that will be mounted using AOE and not > NFS. For this i use a partition mounted here > /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir. The issue i have is that if i

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-16 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Lange wrote: > Please give us the exact error message of make-fai-nfsroot -v I think the problem is quite simple and can easily solved as written in my other mail: AOE is not a directory-/filesystem based export, but block-device based. Theref

Re: NFSROOT, for AOE booting

2008-12-16 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:03:44 +0100, Jean Spirat > said: > I am trying to build a nfsroot that will be mounted using AOE and not > NFS. For this i use a partition mounted here > /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir. The issue i have is that if i > rebuild the nfsroo