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<pre><span lang="EN-US">Thanks very march Thomas.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US">>>>>> On <i>Thu Feb 21 10:45:27 CET 2013 Thomas wrote:</i><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> >> I have several ARM Servers (SOC is Marvell armadaxp CPU) in my lab that already install the Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> >> I try to use FAI to install the others ARM Server.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> >> ¡§exec run-init /root /sbin/init vPhoneConfig --no-log<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> >> udevd[631]: starting version 175¡¨<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> >> May I know this fail is come from ¡§live-initramfs was not installed¡¨ or no<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> Which FAI version do you use? Recent version use dracut instead of<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> live-initramfs. But I guess these problems are because you are using<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> Ubuntu. When trying a new architecture please use Debian, so you make<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> sure your problems do not come from using Ubuntu. Ubuntu and FAI is<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> not running smoothly all the time and I myself cannot give any Ubuntu<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> support.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> Currently my FAI version is ¡§FAI 3.4.8ubuntu3, 31 Jul 2012¡¨<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> I will try to sue dracut instead of live-initramfs to check it work or no<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> May I know how to get dracut packages? <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> I am not sure the Debian has supported the Marvell armadaxp SOC or no?<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> It seems currently Ubuntu has supported the Marvell armadaxp SOC.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> >> And does FAI support ARM server or no?<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> I never tried this, but in the past FAI was used on very different<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> architectures with success (like PowerPC, Itanium, Sparc). There are<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> some part that may be architecture specific. First PXE boot. Some<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> architectures do not support PXE boot, but ARM seems to do<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> so. Partitioning the hard disk (different disk labels like DOS, GPT,<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> SPARC,...) is another part that may need some enhancement in FAI. But<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> since we support DOS and GPT disklabel, ARM should be no problem. The <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> last part is configuring the boot loader. I guess ARM is using uboot<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> most of the time, and currently there's no configuration script in FAI<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="text-indent:6.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">> for uboot. But this should not be a problem.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US">Yes, our ARM server boot loader uses the uBoot loader, and it also supports PXE boot.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US">We can use uboot PXE to do network-install-boot to install Ubuntu OS packages to the local HDD from Ubuntu repository database.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US">Best Regards<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US">Sam Chien<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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