Create fai-cd for other architecture?

2023-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
Hello, I've got an ARM64 server that doesn't do PXE properly, and (of course...) I don't have a second ARM64 machine at hand to prepare a FAI CD. The NFSROOT already exists. Is it possible to run fai-cd on AMD64, with some setup/config tricks, to create an ISO image that can be booted on the ARM m

Re: Create fai-cd for other architecture?

2023-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 13:04:44 +0100, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an ARM64 server that doesn't do PXE properly, and (of course...) > I don't have a second ARM64 machine at hand to prepare a FAI CD. > The NFSROOT already exists. > Is it possible to run fai-cd on AMD64, with some

Re: Create fai-cd for other architecture?

2023-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:43:30 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > said: > Cross-platform doesn't work since "grub-mkstandalone" would throw an > "exec format error". > Running "fai-cd" on arm64 doesn't work since it has x86_64 and i386 hardcoded. What about running a qemu cross-arch

Re: Create fai-cd for other architecture?

2023-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 14:12:56 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:43:30 +0100, Steffen Grunewald > > said: > > > Cross-platform doesn't work since "grub-mkstandalone" would throw an > > "exec format error". > > Running "fai-cd" on arm64 doesn't work since i

Re: UEFI boot order, Re: Tip: Remote FAI install

2023-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Andreas Sindermann
Hi, this doesn't seem to be a trivial task as the state of the boot medium prior to the fai installation as well as the UEFI settings for the single network interface both can have all kinds of states, e.g.: (of course for production I'd disable unneeded UEFI setting, in my case all IPv6 and

Re: Identify disks for setup-storage

2023-01-25 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Roth
Thank you all - I have managed to get a hold on my disks, much in the described way. Cheers Thomas On 09/01/2023 22.22, andrew bezella wrote: On Sun, 2023-01-08 at 11:26 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: Hi Thomas, I use a script to reorder the variable $disklist, so setup-storage can mostly use dis