<div dir="ltr">Hmmm.... Now it is installing fine, but it is trying to reinstall at each reboot, because the boot from the local disk failed (although the entry is well written is the UEFI boot menu).<div><br></div><div>My grub.cfg is now:</div><div>```</div><div><div>set menu_color_normal=white/black</div><div>set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray</div><div>set timeout=5</div><div># for debug:</div><div>#set pager=1</div><div>#set debug=all</div><div><br></div><div>insmod efi_gop</div><div>insmod efi_uga</div><div>if loadfont ${prefix}/unicode.pf2</div><div>then</div><div> insmod gfxterm</div><div> set gfxmode=auto</div><div> set gfxpayload=keep</div><div> terminal_output gfxterm</div><div>fi</div><div><br></div><div>menuentry "Install from FAI" {</div><div> linux vmlinuz-3.16.0-6-amd64 ip=dhcp aufs rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=IP.IP.IP.IP:/srv/fai/nfsroot FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot FAI_ACTION=install server=faiserv.acme.ltd FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserv.acme.ltd/srv/fai/config</div><div> initrd initrd.img-3.16.0-6-amd64</div><div>}</div></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div>It looks like FAI install is just loading the FAIBASE class. I think that "FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserv.acme.ltd/srv/fai/config" is not loading at the install step. Maybe I have some syntax error...</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Rémy.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le ven. 6 juil. 2018 à 14:27, Rémy Dernat <<a href="mailto:remy.d1@gmail.com">remy.d1@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to set up an UEFI boot pxe mainly because our hardware servers do not support full legacy BIOS anymore (particularly hard disk plugin on those servers).</div><div><br></div><div>Our legacy pxelinux works just fine from a while now (and thanks for it).</div><div><br></div><div>I followed this link : <a href="https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2014-February/010294.html" target="_blank">https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2014-February/010294.html</a></div><div>... with no luck. I created an "UEFI" specific class to avoid the erase of DEFAULT, and put everything in that new class, because we will need to keep the pxelinux config.</div><div><br></div><div>My tftp fai folder is organised like this:</div><div>```</div><div><div>root@faiserv:/srv# tree -L 2</div><div>.</div><div>├── fai</div><div>│ ├── config</div><div>│ └── nfsroot</div><div>├── nfs4</div><div>└── tftp</div><div> └── fai</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>root@faiserv:/srv/tftp/fai# tree -L 2</div><div>.</div><div>├── c2960s-universalk9-tar.150-2a.SE9.tar</div><div>├── cisco-ios-150-2a.tar -> c2960s-universalk9-tar.150-2a.SE9.tar</div><div>├── efi</div><div>│ ├── fonts</div><div>│ ├── grub.cfg</div><div>│ ├── grub.cfg.nok</div><div>│ ├── i386-pc</div><div>│ ├── locale</div><div>│ ├── pxelinux.cfg -> ../pxelinux.cfg</div><div>│ ├── unicode.pf2</div><div>│ └── x86_64-efi</div><div>├── gpxelinux.0</div><div>├── initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64</div><div>├── initrd.img-3.16.0-6-amd64</div><div>├── ldlinux.c32</div><div>├── lpxelinux.0</div><div>├── pxelinux.0</div><div>├── pxelinux.0.back</div><div>├── pxelinux.cfg</div><div>│ ├── 0A01FD03</div><div>│ ├── 0A01FFF2</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A1.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A2.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A3.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A4.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A5.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A6.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A7.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5A9</div><div>│ ├── A226B5AA.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5AB.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5B0.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5B4.disable</div><div>│ ├── A226B5B8</div><div>│ └── default</div><div>├── syslinux.efi</div><div>├── vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64</div><div>└── vmlinuz-3.16.0-6-amd64</div></div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div>I do not know if the UEFI is also searching for a filename matching its IP address with the hexa value, so I created a symbolic link to the pxelinux.cfg parent directory...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have no problem with DHCP, and my client is loading the grub.cfg menu. However, it fails while searching for the nfsroot. The error I get (with debug=all) is (replacing sensitive informations): </div><div>```</div><div>kern/disk.c:196 : Opening `tftp,IP.IP.IP.IP'...</div><div>disk/efi/efidisk.c:461 : opening tftp</div><div>kern/disk.c: 281: Opening `tftp,IP.IP.IP.IP' failed.</div><div>kern/disk.c: 295: Closing `tftp'.<br></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is my grub.cfg config :</div><div>```</div><div><div>root@faiserv:/srv/tftp/fai/efi# cat grub.cfg</div><div>set menu_color_normal=white/black</div><div>set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray</div><div>set timeout=5</div><div># for debug:</div><div>#set pager=1</div><div>set debug=all</div><div><br></div><div>insmod efi_gop</div><div>insmod efi_uga</div><div>if loadfont ${prefix}/unicode.pf2</div><div>then</div><div> insmod gfxterm</div><div> set gfxmode=auto</div><div> set gfxpayload=keep</div><div> terminal_output gfxterm</div><div>fi</div><div><br></div><div>menuentry "Install from FAI" {</div><div> linux vmlinuz-3.16.0-6-amd64 rw ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=IP.IP.IP.IP:/srv/fai/nfsroot FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot FAI_ACTION=install server=faiserv.acme.ltd FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserv.acme.ltd/srv/fai/config</div><div> initrd initrd.img-3.16.0-6-amd64</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Rémy</div></div>
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