Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server
Hey All, Thanks ever so much for the pointers. Indeed the missing bnx2 driver was the problem.. On the old system we had a custom kernel with the driver build in. Im still not sure as to why I couldn't boot with this kernel anymore (the missing initrd..) but adding the firmware-bnx2 to /etc/fai/NFSROOT and creating a NFSROOT was sufficient to get everything working again.. Rather silly of me I didnt think of that (I was trying to recreate a custom kernel without success). One more question: Since when, and why, is FAI looking for the config files in $NFSROOT/var/lib/fai/config ? I had to copy my config over to that dir to get the FAI install working again, simply leaving the config in /srv/fai/config resulted in a "cant find config" error... Again, thanks for all your help! Leen Russ Allbery wrote: "Thomas Neumann" writes: P.S.: It may be necessary to add bnx2 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules prior to updating the initrd. I'm not sure. It shouldn't be if /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf has MODULES=most. -- Leen Smit Systems Admin Service2Media B.V. Arnhemseweg 2 3817 CH Amersfoort Capitool 41 7521 PL Enschede Tel +31 (0)35 626 46 12 Fax +31 (0)35 626 46 13
Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:22:06 +0200, Leen Smit > said: > One more question: Since when, and why, is FAI looking for the config > files in $NFSROOT/var/lib/fai/config ? I had to copy my config over to > that dir to get the FAI install working again, simply leaving the config > in /srv/fai/config resulted in a "cant find config" error... Maybe you have upgraded from a very old FAI version to a new one. Since 3.0 FAI_LOCATION is replaced by FAI_CONFIG_SRC. Check if you have set the later in your fai.conf. >From fai.conf: # how to access the fai config space # If undefined here, make-fai-nfsroot/fai-setup will use default value # nfs:///$FAI_CONFIGDIR # supported URL-types: nfs, file, cvs, cvs+ssh, svn+file, svn+http, # git, git+http, hg+http #FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://yourservername/path/to/config/space So, make-fai-nfsroot should have set it to nfs://yourservername/srv/fai/config in $NFSROOT/etc/fai.conf if you didn't defined it in /etc/fai/fai.conf. -- regards Thomas
