fai-cd produces unbootable system because of missing grub packages

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue Oct 18 00:12:36 CEST 2005


>>>>> On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:30:03 +0200, Henning Sprang <henning_sprang at gmx.de> said:

    > That means, we deliver simple examples that won't work with fai-cd as
    > they are, and finding the error is quite hard for somebody not deeper
    > into FAI - even for me it took some hours (ok, mainly because each test
    > takes it's time, but it won't get quicker for others, it even takes more
    > time when you test on real hardware, burning a cd each time,instead of
    > using qemu like I did), and I found the solution more by guessing than
    > by having a clear error message that helped much.
Maybe this is my fault, since I know this bug, but I didn't reported
it to the BTS. So I will try to report more things to the BTS, if I
have the time.

    > Should I report an extra bug for this before doing anything else, or is
    > this still 320024 "fai-cd doesn't work with sarge"? I tend to say it's
    > an extra bug, because it has nothing to do with sarge and hardcoded
    > "testing" strings.
It's a bug of install_packages, and I will think if I can easily
remove packages ending with a minus when using install_packages for
fai-mirror.

-- 
regards Thomas



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