Package: fai-client Version: 3.4.7 [ I initially reported the following on the linux-fai mailing list, cf. https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2011-March/008867.html, and was asked to report it again here. ]
I have some servers that I want to set up with FAI and squeeze on a network without DHCP, and I have run into problems with the network configuration along the way. The grub.cfg and menu.lst in /etc/fai include examples of how to set the (static) network address of an install client (ip=...) in the format of the Linux kernel nfsroot parameter, as also documented in the live-boot(7) man page (the format of the kernel parameter is documented in http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt). Unfortunately, this is not how live-boot actually works (filed as bug #616197); it rather expects ip=<device>:<ipaddr>:<mask>:<gw>. The following grub.cfg snippet works for me. --<snip>-- menuentry "FAI -- server42" { linux /boot/vmlinuz boot=live FAI_ACTION=install FAI_FLAGS="verbose,sshd" ip=eth0:192.168.1.10:255.255.255.0:192.168.1.1 hostname=server42 initrd /boot/initrd.img } --<snip>-- This is not simply a problem with the examples, because setnet() in get-boot-info expects the nfsroot-style format, and thus sets IPADDR=eth0, causing problems in (my own) scripts late during the install process. The patch at the end of this mail fixes this issue for me (together with the grub.cfg snippet above). Regards, Ulrich --- a/usr/lib/fai/get-boot-info 2010-12-24 09:59:36.000000000 +0100 +++ b/usr/lib/fai/get-boot-info 2011-03-02 14:50:49.000000000 +0100 @@ -91,14 +91,16 @@ setnet() { local ips=$1 + # Device is first, ignore + ips=${ips#*:} IPADDR=${ips%%:*} ips=${ips#*:} - SERVER=${ips%%:*} + NETMASK=${ips%%:*} ips=${ips#*:} GATEWAYS=${ips%%:*} - ips=${ips#*:} - NETMASK=${ips%%:*} BROADCAST=${IPADDR%\.*}.255 + # Server not part of static live-boot config + SERVER= cat >> $bootlog <<-EOF IPADDR=$IPADDR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
