Re: Enabling PXE from add-on cards

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi Thomas, Thomas Lange wrote: > > * Apart from this, has anyone some link to a guideline for Intel based > > NICs how to ensure that the cards are PXE capable as well as how to make > > them recognized by the systems BIOS? > IMO all newer card should have PXE. With intel cards you can

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Thomas Lange wrote: > > Hmm, I get exactly the same results with either > > FAI_BOOT= > > and > > FAI_BOOT=dhcp > > and even without this option at all > Did you installed the package syslinux or syslinux-common on your > install server? Hi Thomas, thanks, that did it. I recent

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:40:42 +0200, Robert Markula > said: > Hmm, I get exactly the same results with either > FAI_BOOT= > and > FAI_BOOT=dhcp > and even without this option at all Did you installed the package syslinux or syslinux-common on your install server? --

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Hmm, I get exactly the same results with either FAI_BOOT= and FAI_BOOT=dhcp and even without this option at all in the fai.conf file. I ran 'make-fai-nfsroot -v' each time. The log is the same: http://paste.debian.net/38863 The complete content of the /etc/fai/fai.conf file is (in the second

Re: Enabling PXE from add-on cards

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:10:10 +0200, Carsten Aulbert > said: > We received two batches of machines recently and they now all have PCIe > x1 e1000e based Intel NICs as an add-on card. > However, I can only seem to get the BIOS to recognize some of these > cards although

Enabling PXE from add-on cards

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi, Not really directly related to FAI, but since I already feel stupid, I think I may ask this here if someone could give my brain a (small) kick. We received two batches of machines recently and they now all have PCIe x1 e1000e based Intel NICs as an add-on card. However, I can only seem to ge

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:44:37 +0200, Robert Markula > said: > And that's the strange thing - even the verbose log does not show that > the pxelinux.0 file is created. Check that the variable FAI_BOOT is not net, or set to dhcp. This controls wether pxelinux.0 will be copied. In

Re: Huh? pxelinux.0 missing after fai-setup

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Robert Markula
Thomas Lange wrote: > > Running fai-setup exits just fine, no error messages, but the > > /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.0 file is missing. It just isn't created by > > fai-setup. What am I doing wrong? > Try again with add in -v, it;s ok to only run make-fai-nfsroot -v. The > output or log fil

Re: looking for help to extract debian initrd image

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden mettler
hi, I am using this command to extract an initrd gzip -dc ../initramfs-genkernel-fai | cpio -id and to put it back in: find ./ | cpio -H newc -o > ../initramfs-genkernel-fai-new have fun Stephan > hello everybody, > i have some problem again, > I tring to extract debian initrd image ,I cr