live-initramfs

2009-01-08 Thread Henning Fehrmann
/srv/tftp/fai/vmlinuz-2.6.27.10-faiinstall' cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-*': No such file or directory ERROR: No initrd installed. In the /etc/fai/NFSROOT I included PACKAGES aptitude : live-initramfs linux-image-2.6.27.10-faiinstall : I gue

Re: live-initramfs

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Lange
trd for the kernel, do I need to use the live-initramfs hook? > I am using the kernel-package tools. I would expect to get a initrd using > make-kpkg --revision ... kernel-image --initrd This should work. But --initrd only saves a configuration option somewhere inside the kernel pa

Re: live-initramfs

2009-01-14 Thread Henning Fehrmann
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 07:43:23PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:36:35 +0100, Henning Fehrmann > > said: > > > I guess, a proper initrd has to come already with the kernel. > not really, because dpkg-reconfigure linux-image... should be called, > which creates

Re: live-initramfs

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:39:46 +0100, Henning Fehrmann > said: > Actually, compiling the aufs modules is not really straight > forward since one needs the right combination of aufs sources and > kernel sources. I took the debian patched 2.6.26 kernel sources and > the 0

Re: live-initramfs

2009-01-14 Thread Henning Fehrmann
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:04:55PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:39:46 +0100, Henning Fehrmann > > said: > > > Actually, compiling the aufs modules is not really straight > > forward since one needs the right combination of aufs sources and > > kernel

Re: live-initramfs

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas Lange
e to give a parameter to the live scripts inside initrd to specify the network device. Let me see: # man 7 live-initramfs (inside the nfsroot) . . ip=[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTN

FAI 3.2.4, live-initramfs + unionfs

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Roth
Hi all, I've tried to upgrade a FAI server from 3.1.8 to 3.2.4. Not surprisingly, things didn't work any more. After a while, I started from scratch, installing FAI and related packages and building a new nfsroot. Still, FAI does not work, and there are two points that worry me: - The nfsroot l

Re: FAI 3.2.4, live-initramfs + unionfs

2008-01-22 Thread Henning Sprang
Hi Thomas, Before discussing your problems further, please make sure you read this: http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAI_3.2_on_Etch Please let me know of that makes things work for you - I authored this page and want to complete it if some things are missing. And surely some of

Re: FAI 3.2.4, live-initramfs + unionfs

2008-01-22 Thread Thomas Roth
like to vote for some enhancements of the docu, for people like me who like to have everything explained in detail. :-) Necessary packages: Since live-initramfs, live-helper and unionfs seem to be crucial for FAI 3.2, all three should be mentioned, also in the FAI guide. Actually they should be

live-initramfs issue when booting fai

2008-01-30 Thread Roel van der Made
Hi, I'm having the following issue when booting fai 3.2.4 with kernel 2.6.24. The boot seems to go fine, intializes all interfaces and hardware correctly but the moment after mounting the nfsroot and bringing up the network interface I get dropped into a shell like this: bnx2: eth0: using MSI bnx

Re: live-initramfs issue when booting fai

2008-01-30 Thread Castang Jerome
Roel van der Made a écrit : Hi, I'm having the following issue when booting fai 3.2.4 with kernel 2.6.24. The boot seems to go fine, intializes all interfaces and hardware correctly but the moment after mounting the nfsroot and bringing up the network interface I get dropped into a shell like th

Re: live-initramfs issue when booting fai

2008-01-31 Thread Roel van der Made
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:06 +0100, Castang Jerome wrote: > Roel van der Made a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'm having the following issue when booting fai 3.2.4 with kernel > > 2.6.24. The boot seems to go fine, intializes all interfaces and > > hardware correctly but the moment after mounting the nf

Replacing KLIBCs ipconfig with UDHCPC inside live initramfs tools

2011-01-11 Thread Stephan Adig
uot;live" script you need to add the BOOTIF parameter like this: BOOTIF=*) BOOTIF="${ARGUMENT#BOOTIF=}" export BOOTIF ;; After updateing the initramfs inside the chroot and copying after that the initrd.img for the used install boot kernel int

Re: Replacing KLIBCs ipconfig with UDHCPC inside live initramfs tools

2011-01-15 Thread Michael Prokop
pxelinux to catch exactly that interface, we were > sure that our DHCP infrastructure is working (we are doing some dhcp > relay configs inside our network). [...] > I'm thinking, that udhcpc is a better solution for dhcp requests inside > (live) initramfs and we should try to go

Re: Replacing KLIBCs ipconfig with UDHCPC inside live initramfs tools

2011-01-16 Thread Stephan Adig
t; > [...] > > > I'm thinking, that udhcpc is a better solution for dhcp requests inside > > (live) initramfs and we should try to go that way. > > > I don't know what it needs to start the discussion with initramfs > > upstream (or the linux plumbers) but we