Finally, I succeeded. Boot mode set to Legacy, PXE boot into FAI, with classes, hooks and scripts. It will take a few more days to iron out minor mistakes, before I can start to make this public ;)
I will write up everything I did. Basically, I used input from the following documents, with a few own ideas, and suggestions from this list added: - "Debian Stretch Root on ZFS" (github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki) - "ZFS Install Guide" (www.funtoo.org) - "Booting a ZFS Root via UEFI on Debian" (www.thecrosseroads.net) Somehow I failed to get /boot/efi mounted at the right point when I ran an almost identical install with UEFI enabled, but I'm lucky that my SuperMicro hardware still has a Legacy mode. I'd like to ask for your patience - tomorrow is my last working day for this year, and there are lost of (non-FAI, non-ZFS) problems to be settled. Enjoy the time with family, friends or just private projects. See you next year then! Cheers, Steffen > > Setting up a root zpool mirroring three disks, I get > > BOOT_DEVICE="/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805104HX128BGN > > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805102QH128BGN > > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2KW128G8_PHLA805007K6128BGN" > > 10-setup although converts this to > > GROOT="(hostdisk//dev/sda) (hostdisk//dev/sdm) (hostdisk//dev/sdn)" > > grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for hostdisk//dev/sda. Check > > your device.map. > > but I remember having seen a different problem then. Got to rinse > > and repeat. > Actually what I might have been missing is the addition of a BIOS boot > partition > to the GPT, as described in https://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide - I will > add that to the mountdisks hook, and rerun the installation. > > BTW, as the linux-headers package gets consistently installed after the > > spl-dkms one, a trick similar to the nfsroot hook described earlier is > > also necessary to get the modules built inside the target chroot. > Is there a trick in FAI to force an installation order?
