Jean Spirat wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to know if anyone use fAI to netboot a rescue disk on their > system. I mean when a server is having issue and do not boot use the pxe > boot and fai to use it to netboot a live system that will be used with > parted and other filesystem tools to repair the system and chroot into > /target etc ?
Most live cd's come with their own config and system for netbooting. I don't see a benefit of doing this with FAI. These systems most often have much more features than the FAI nfsroot when you use it with sysinfo instead of install. > It seems sysinfo FAI_FLAGS is near what i look for, anyone know how to > duplicate the sysinfo hook with for exemple mount RW instead of read > only etc.. But how to you know _what_ to mount? Assduming you have quite a bunch of different systems and disk configurations, it's pretty hard to know for all of them what to mount. In case of emergency, it should be enough to boot a system, and let the person working on the disaster recovery/debugging decide what to mount. Again, this is easier with for example the grml live cd, which at least prepares some mountpoints for all disks/partitions it has found on the system. >One important feature would be to have a root password setup > that is different on each "netboot" etc... :) Any ideas ? Sorry, I don't understand anymore what you are trying to achieve here. In case of disaster, I'd want fast and easy access to a system, not fiddle around with some magic random password. Sure, that way anybody who can bring a system into this mode of netbbot/rescue system, has full access to the system, but that is the same with access to hardware... Henning
