Re: AW: cryptsetup disk_config example(s) ?

2024-12-18 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
On Wed, 2024-12-18 at 08:40 +, Schulz, Reiner wrote: > Hi! > > here a snip of the solution i use: > Unforturnately it work only at install Just checking, are you installing the cryptsetup-initramfs package in the target? Not doing this has bitten me before. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Ruthve

Re: AW: fai-diskimage variable "classes" not inherited to fai

2021-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:24:37 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > # fai-diskimage -v -N -u dvzsn-ra0317 image.raw > ERROR: No classes are defined >> From /usr/sbin/fai-diskimage: > 182 if [ -z "$classes" ]; then > 183 die 7 "No classes are defined" > 184 fi Oo

RE: AW: AW: fai-make-nfsroot failing (was: AW: fai-make-nfsroot failing with dracut version 050+35-2)

2020-05-19 Diskussionsfäden Frank Morawietz
Thanks for your advice, Thomas. With the fai-project.org repos added on the install server followed by an update of fai to 5.9.4 "fai-setup -v -f" went fine and completed without errors! Regards, Frank -- Frank Morawietz This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged o

Re: AW: AW: fai-make-nfsroot failing (was: AW: fai-make-nfsroot failing with dracut version 050+35-2)

2020-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 18 May 2020 14:25:06 +, Frank Morawietz > said: > There is no FAI newer than this in the Debian default repos, right? > Do I need to add the fai-project.org repos to get a newer version? Have a look at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fai Debian stable has 5.8.4, bu

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot failing (was: AW: fai-make-nfsroot failing with dracut version 050+35-2)

2020-05-18 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 18 May 2020 12:10:43 +, Frank Morawietz > said: >> > I am currently installing a brand new FAI server on Debian >> > buster (10.4) with FAI 5.9.4 from the Debian repos. Are you sure, you are using fai 5.9.4 on your fai server, where you call fai-make-fnsroot? What's

Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 22:40 +0200, Rémy Dernat wrote: > Hi > > I have a couple of questions. > > - Do you deploy this system to operate a k8s cluster ? No, I was requested to build this system, which will be a pet, to run some docker containers for Gitlab & Prometheus. I have just raised some

Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Rémy Dernat
Hi I have a couple of questions. - Do you deploy this system to operate a k8s cluster ? - If so, I imagine you disable the swap (?). But why are you deploying this stack over bare-metal, with no VM ? - Why not using kickstart, which is the redhat standard tftp system ? (I mean, I am a big of FAI

Re: AW: Install Fedora CoreOS using FAI

2020-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Andrew Ruthven
Hey, Nice. I had considered using HTTP, but didn't want to deviate from the "recommended" approach. Well. Up until I decided to completely the approach. ;) That is also a much smaller initrd! The main reason I changed was to be able to configure the disk layout, the much faster build was a very

Re: AW: AW: PXE boot with UEFI

2019-12-05 Diskussionsfäden CSCI Technician
On 12/5/19 5:33 AM, Frank Morawietz wrote: You can troubleshoot the issue using a tftp client on one of your test boxes. Nice idea! I booted the client into Knoppix, installed the tftp-hpa client and tested. I could successfully get every single file from the server in /srv/tftp/fai/ . W

Re: AW: PXE boot with UEFI

2019-12-04 Diskussionsfäden CSCI Technician
On 12/4/19 1:40 AM, Frank Morawietz wrote: Some additional information: I picked the boot files from the local syslinux installation: - /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/efi32/syslinux.c32 --> syslinux32.efi - /usr/lib/syslinux/modules/efi64/syslinux.c32 --> syslinux64.efi - /usr/lib/syslinux/modu

Re: AW: PXE boot with UEFI

2019-12-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 09:40:45 +, Frank Morawietz > said: > So it looks like the UEFI tftp connection refused error happened where ldlinux should be transferred. > Is there anything else I could examine to diagnose further? I had problems with my thinkpad in the past when bo

Re: AW: PXE boot with UEFI

2019-12-03 Diskussionsfäden CSCI Technician
On 12/3/19 2:50 AM, Frank Morawietz wrote: Many thanks Steffen and Merlin for your configuration details! I learned a lot already and I believe that we are on the right track. I included your suggestions into my dhpcd.conf . According to the log output below it seems to select the correct f

Re: AW: PXE boot with UEFI

2019-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Sylvain MILOT
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Frank Morawietz wrote: Many thanks Steffen and Merlin for your configuration details! I learned a lot already and I believe that we are on the right track. I included your suggestions into my dhpcd.conf . According to the log output below it seems to select the correct fil

Re: AW: fcopy and /dev/null

2019-09-17 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:54:48 +, Frank Morawietz > said: > I added the mknod command ("mknod --mode=666 /dev/null c 1 3") to the repository hook, right before calling fcopy the first time. You have to use mknod --mode=666 $target/dev/null c 1 3 Maybe /dev/null is needed in the

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

2019-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 09:07:14 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > Sorry. > At the Debain Bug Tracker for dracut, i read a bug ticket which discusses the warning " ignored null byte in input " with dracut an bash 4.4 > as i remember you wrote that this ist solved in current dra

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

2019-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 08:54:45 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > without "-s" i got: > Setting up dracut (048+80-1) ... > /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/45url-lib/module-setup.sh: line 33: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input > dracut-install: ERROR: inst

Re: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

2019-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 08:20:00 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > lsinitramfs /srv/tftp/fai/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 | grep -i nfs > sbin/fsck.nfs I use lsinitrd, not lsinitramfs -- regards Thomas

Re: AW: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

2019-01-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
I use the same fai-make-nfsroot version. I have these dracut modules in my initrd: dracut modules: bash network ifcfg url-lib dm dmsquash-live kernel-modules kernel-network-modules livenet overlay-root qemu qemu-net lunmask nfs rootfs-block terminfo udev-rules base fs-lib img-lib livenet is m

Re: AW: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

2019-01-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 15:25:34 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > New one, dosent work: > lsinitramfs initrd.img-4.9.0-8-amd64 |grep -i nfs > sbin/fsck.nfs Is this the initrd from inside the nfsroot? This is my output: > lsinitrd /srv/fai//nfsroot/boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-8-am

Re: AW: nfsroot: dracut don't know to handle root=

2019-01-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 07:32:16 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > According to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#Dracut_kernel_command_line_parameters > and > https://people.redhat.com/harald/dracut.html#NetworkBoot > we need pakage " dracut-network" for dracu

Re: AW: ACLs on /target/ while installation causing trouble

2016-09-06 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 16:18:46 +0200 (MEST), "steven.w...@t-online.de" > said: > Hi Thomas, > we used version 1.29 . Ah, this is in testing and sid. Thanks for the info. -- regards Thomas

Re: AW: Fai-make-nfsroot setup-failure fai-server

2016-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:42:28 +, "Bosch, Fabian (BITBW)" > said: > I did add "deb http://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln" to my sources.list updated apt and it didn't work either. You must add this to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list ^^^ ^^^ That's important! -- rega

Re: AW: Fai-make-nfsroot setup-failure fai-server

2016-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:52:54 +, "Bosch, Fabian (BITBW)" > said: >> Please call fai-make-nfsroot -v and put the output onto paste.debian.net. Then I will have a look at it. > paste.debian.net/784794 You have two options. either remove dracut-config-generic from /etc/fai/NF

Re: AW: Fai-make-nfsroot setup-failure fai-server

2016-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:42:28 +, "Bosch, Fabian (BITBW)" > said: > I did add "deb http://fai-project.org/download jessie koeln" to my sources.list updated apt and it didn't work either. > Sorry :( Please call fai-make-nfsroot -v and put the output onto paste.debian.net. Th

Re: AW: AW: AW: AW: Problem with virtio network boot

2016-06-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:23:41 +, Denny Bortfeldt > said: > Default timeout are 20 seconds, this is way enough. DHCPOFFERS will be send out but VM don't respect them. > This problem only occur with Dracut and virtio network card. You can test the nfsroot from http://fai-proj

Re: AW: AW: AW: Problem with virtio network boot

2016-06-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:04:14 +, Denny Bortfeldt > said: > Screenshot attached: > https://data.bortfeldt.net/f/84d501dcd7/ You can use rd.net.timeout.ifup= to use a bigger timeout. See man dracut.cmdline for more info -- regards Thomas

Re: AW: AW: Problem with virtio network boot

2016-06-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:51:00 +, Denny Bortfeldt > said: > The first DHCP request for pxe-boot-menu is received successfully. After that the initrd and stuff is loaded. > When dracut is running a dhcp again, then the dhcp fails - I also don't see any traffic anymore from t

Re: AW: Problem with virtio network boot

2016-06-14 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:35:13 +, Denny Bortfeldt > said: > Drivers are included. OK. IMO the NIC is activated (so , there's is one eth0), but only DHCP is not working. Maybe your network setup is the cause the the problem, not the kernel driver. > -Ursprüngliche Nachri

Re: AW: /boot/grub/ascii.pf2 not found

2016-05-04 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 4 May 2016 16:12:10 +0200, "Werner Pommerer" > said: > there is no error in the log-files concerning grub. Especially in shell.log: Are you using an UEFI Bios or do you use legacy boot. -- regards Thomas

Re: AW: How to fix 'mount.nfs: Connection timed out'

2016-03-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 20:22:24 +0100, "Robert Rettig" > said: > root@faiserver:~# fai-make-nfsroot -fv > There are no errors (see attached log ). Yes. but you are installing initramfs-tools into the nfsroot. That's wrong. Please check why this is done. initramfs-tools is deprecat

Re: AW:

2015-12-10 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:56:55 +0100 (MET), "steven.w...@t-online.de" > said: > thanks for your help. I would like to try the build a debian jessie nsf root and a debian jessie initrd, which will install the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. > As I understand I have to add jessie sources insid

Re: AW: Problem with disk_config

2015-11-19 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:55:05 +0100, "Werner Pommerer" > said: > the script 30-mkinitrd uses now the dracut part instead of the mkinitrd > code. > BUT: the result ist he same! Using LVM, it seems only by possible, to do > this > Installation, during "firstboot" (I

Re: AW: Packagename depends on uname -r

2015-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Geoff Shang
On Fri, 15 May 2015, Werner Pommerer wrote: it didn't work for me. In "package_config", I added the line: .. PACKAGES yumi .. kernel-module-openafs-`uname -r` .. But fai.log says: install_packages: executing chroot /target yum -y install kernel-module-openafs-`uname -r`

Re: AW: Packagename depends on uname -r

2015-05-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 15 May 2015 14:16:39 +0200, "Werner Pommerer" > said: > But fai.log says: > install_packages: executing chroot /target yum -y install kernel-module-openafs-`uname -r` ... > No package kernel-module-openafs-3.2.0-4-amd64 available. > When the I do the

Re: AW: Option to set Ports for NFS mount

2015-05-07 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:54:36 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > May be there is another way: scp and ssh have an option "-F" to use another config file, if you could extent "fai-savelog" to use something like "-F $MYSSHCONFIGFILEWITHSPECIALOPTION" if this variable is set to an f

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-04-15 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 22:11:12 +0200, Christian Meyer said: > Of course "real merging" isn't possible, but what about > modifying /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf to something like: > DISTRIBUTION=$(cat /etc/fai/apt/sources.list | grep -Em1 > '(.debian.|.ubuntu.)' | cut -d\ -f2')

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-04-13 Diskussionsfäden Christian Meyer
Hello Thomas, Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2015, 17:55 +0100 schrieb Thomas Lange: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:36:23 +0100, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de > > said: > > > http://paste.debian.net/hidden/a7354e4b > You are mixing jessie and wheezy packages. When calling debootstrap > (lin

Re: AW: Option to set Ports for NFS mount

2015-03-30 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:41:48 +, "Schulz, Reiner" > said: > We use fai 3.4.8 for now and "patch" /usr/sbin/fai at line " export romountopt" to > " export romountopt="-t nfs4 -o port=20549,soft,async,noatime,nolock,ro,actimeo=1800" It should be possible to redefine the va

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:36:23 +0100, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: > http://paste.debian.net/hidden/a7354e4b You are mixing jessie and wheezy packages. When calling debootstrap (line 4) you are using jessie, but later you are using packages from wheezy. This will cause problems.

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Werner . Pommerer
http://paste.debian.net/hidden/a7354e4b Regards Werner - Nachricht von Thomas Lange - Datum: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:56:41 +0100 Von: Thomas Lange Antwort an: fully automatic installation for Linux Betreff: Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot An: fully automatic

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:49:20 +0100, werner.pomme...@uni-hohenheim.de said: > I put the log on paste.debian.net Which URL? -- regards Thomas

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Werner . Pommerer
I put the log on paste.debian.net regards Werner - Nachricht von Thomas Lange - Datum: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:41:29 +0100 Von: Thomas Lange Antwort an: fully automatic installation for Linux Betreff: Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot An: fully automatic installation for

Re: AW: fai-make-nfsroot

2015-03-26 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:13:20 +0100, "Werner Pommerer" > said: > There is no e.g. /srv/fai/nfsroot/usr/sbin/fai > nfsroot seems not to be complete. Do you need the logfile from > fai-make-nfsroot -v ? Yes, please put it on paste.debian.net. You may want to join the #fai chan

Re: AW: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-04 Diskussionsfäden Holger Parplies
Hi, Fabian Hartmann wrote on 2014-12-03 07:53:51 + [AW: AW: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU]: > Hmm, I tried it out as you described, but unfortunately without any success. ["it" being:] > > Von: linux-fai [mailto:linux-fai-boun...@uni-koeln.de] Im Auftra

Re: AW: AW: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:53:51 +, Fabian Hartmann > said: > Then I wanted to have a look at another shell, but there are only two other consoles with messages from dmesg, no shell where I could actually do something on the live-system. > How can I configure the live-system t

Re: AW: Error message after installing via fai-cd before reboot with UBUNTU

2014-12-02 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 07:59:47 +, Fabian Hartmann > said: > And I remember to not have this problem in the beginning while working with an example disk_config from FAIBASE with a /tmp partition... > So that could probably be causing the problem! Is it necessary to create a p

Re: AW: Network settings / DHCP

2009-05-28 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi Jerome, Please continue threads on the list! Jerome Eichler wrote: > I have reviewed my configuration and read the FAI-wiki. > I found some things about classes, but I cannot find any setting, where I > can define my hosts to the DHCPC class. > > Can you (or someone else) tell me, where I can

Re: AW: Parallel FAI installations for sarge and etch on a sargemachine

2007-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Olaf Oexmann wrote: > [...] > /usr/sbin/debootstrap: line 3: finddebs_style: command not found > > ... seems to have nothing to do with FAI, really, but with debootstrap as > mentioned by Henning in an erlier post. Did you install the Ecth debootstrap? Sarge debootstrap cannot bootstrap Etch, be