Hi Thomas, thanks for your tipp with the template option of fai-chboot Really a useful tool - I didnt know it yet It seems to work with it
Thanks a lot! René On 07/01/2015 11:43 AM, Thomas Lange wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:35:16 +0200, René Bleisch >>>>>> <accou...@climate.unibe.ch> said: > > I can easily fix this by adapting /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf: > > NFSROOT=nfs:phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot > This is not supported. NFSROOT must be a directory, since this > variable is also used by other scripts and commands. > > > => Thomas, would it be possible to add a new option to "fai-chboot", to > > provide a user-defined value for the "root=..." directive? > > (It would make life quite easier for me) > > > (=> is it such a special thing to have a separate dhcp and fai-server?) > I also have this setup, since I'm not allowed to run my own DHCP > server :-(. IMO it's a bug in dracut, but upstream didn't changed the > code as I suggested. Maybe I should ask again. > > I use a templte for fai-chboot. Do you know this feature? > I've created a file /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/jessie.tmpl (by calling > fai-chboot and then editing it). For each new install client, I call > > fai-chboot -vc jessie.tmpl newclient > > > That way, the template gets copied to the config for the client called > newclient. >
