Re: pxe booting qemu

2019-09-23 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 23 Sep 2019 at 20:25, john doe wrote: > > I already have the preseed file working, for now, I do install Debian > > from a usb key and at the boot prompt I fetch the preseed file from http > > with something like: > > > > boot: auto console=ttyS0,115200n8 interface=auto url= > > > > The all pur

Re: pxe booting qemu

2019-09-23 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
On 23 Sep 2019 at 13:26, john doe wrote: ... > > If the kernel in the netboot image gets out of sync with the kernel module > > packages, > > then the modules won't load and the install will fail, > > the usual symptoms are that messages about "missing symbols" appear > > in the ctrl-alt-f4 consol

Two questions on update_initramfs (in Debian 9 amd64 with systemd)

2019-09-02 Thread Frantisek Rysanek
Dear everyone, I'm playing with NFSroot and overlayfs. Which appears to work fine. Based on other people's work, I've put together a script (see it attached, including credits of my key "inspirations") that goes into /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-bottom/ Obviously this gets embedded in th