Re: grub issues during FAI install

Hi, On Wed, 08.07.2009 at 10:50:07 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > I'm using the /boot/grub/menu.lst/GRUB example that comes with FAI, and > the corresponding postinst. (Lenny, AMD64) > After fcopy'ing /boot/grub/menu.lst, I usually see the following messages > produced by the postinst script

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

> On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:02:19 +0200, Gordon Grubert > said: > I'm booting from network. But I'm a little bit confused because there > is the message to boot the root file system followed by an ide output > before the kernel panic occurs. I'm also wondering why this happens.

Re: grub issues during FAI install

hiya >> For whatever reason this has happened: it shouldn't. There could be >> several reasons to have multiple bootable devices (e.g. different >> OSes), and they should be selectable in the BIOS. [...] > As long as we stay with grub (I have no other suggestion to make), > booting different opera

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

Thomas Lange wrote: >> On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:49:22 +0200, Gordon Grubert >> said: > > > Supermicro X8DTU. Sorry, but I could not find the exact > > network chipset description. On the server everything is > > running fine. > Run lspci (maybe from a live CD like grml) and you should

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

Thomas Lange wrote: > > I'm booting from network. But I'm a little bit confused because there > > is the message to boot the root file system followed by an ide output > > before the kernel panic occurs. > I'm also wondering why this happens. IIRC there's a kernel option that > disables

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 13:44:52 Gordon Grubert wrote: > I've rebuild the initrd like Carsten mentioned: > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-amd64 > ... > grep: /proc/modules: No such file or directory > ... > Adding module /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/i

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

Hi, I faced the same problem yesterday and solved it by taking the kernel of debian testing. I took the kernel deb file and the corresponding aufs-modules deb (not sure if this was needed) and installed it in the nfsroot (mount proc, dev, sys,...; chroot ...). I then copied the kernel and init

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

> On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:45:16 +0200, Gordon Grubert > said: > General question: > There are TWO initial ram disks: i) inside the nfsroot and > ii) located for the tftpd boot process. > What is the role of both these initrd files? These must be equal, because fai-setup an

Re: Problem with Intel igb network driver on client

> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:57:41 +0200, Christian Quast > said: > I took the kernel deb file and the corresponding aufs-modules deb (not sure if > this was needed) and installed it in the nfsroot (mount proc, dev, sys,...; Yes, the aufs-modulesdeb is required. -- regards T

Re: grub issues during FAI install

Hi, On Tue, 01.09.2009 at 11:28:55 +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote: > In my opinion, fai should be able to support both options. I don't mind > the default behaviour, as long as I'm able to change it to my needs. it should imho just be better documented what to do, and where. > Use cases that co

Specifying sizes in setup-storage

Hi, I'd like to create a swap partition which is 20% of the size of the disk, but at most 4GB. I tried the following setup-storage configuration: disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos bootable:1 primary/boot 192-256ext3 rw primary- 4G-- - disk_config l

Re: Specifying sizes in setup-storage

> On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:22:20 +0200, Michael Goetze > said: > Hi, > I'd like to create a swap partition which is 20% of the size of the > disk, but at most 4GB. I tried the following setup-storage configuration: Which is the total size of your disk? > disk_config disk1