Report of two big FAI installations

2009-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
Hello everybody, I like to point you on the list of happy FAI users, which answered the FAI questionnaire. In the last few days, I got two more additional entries, which are amazing in my oppinion. The last entry is from a french visual effects company, which manage about 1000 machines using FAI.

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

2009-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Leen Smit
Hi All, A small update and another question... Since I couldn't figure out why this was not working, I started from scratch. I've found that a "clean" roll-put with lenny wont work, im getting kernel panics errors again. But is probably due to missing modules for our bnx2 networkcards. Puttin

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

2009-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:56:07 +0200, Leen Smit > said: > The problem is that I can never get out off the initrd on to the actual > fai installation this way.. > Im really lost at this point, since I cant seem to get the old setup > working, nor a new one! > Any he

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

2009-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya > I've found that a "clean" roll-put with lenny wont work, im getting > kernel panics errors again. But is probably due to missing modules for > our bnx2 networkcards. Are you using Debian nfsroots? -> Have you tried installing the package firmware-bnx2 into the nfsroot, updating the initrd

Re: Read-only filesystem after moving to new server

2009-10-12 Diskussionsfäden Russ Allbery
"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. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)