my fai doesn't know the server name.

Radek Hnilica ML at hnilica.cz
Tue Mar 11 10:28:50 CET 2003


On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:01:56PM +0100, Felix Kühling wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:50:26 +0100
> Radek Hnilica <Radek at Hnilica.CZ> wrote:
> 
> > 	Hello,
> > 
> > I just packaged cvs version 2.4 and install it before got your answer.  
> > It'll take me some time to got to the same point or beyond.
> 
> There are debian packages for FAI 2.4 available on the FAI site. It was
> released about 4 weeks ago.

thanks,  I install these now.  I rewrite little fai.conf and try to use it.
but client goes panic:
IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 10.16.66.20, my address is 10.16.66.130
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=10.16.66.130, mask=255.255.224.0, gw=10.16.66.50,
     host=fai0001, domain=moraviapress.cz, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=10.16.66.20, rootserver=10.16.66.20, rootpath=/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:01
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01

I use my own kernel and also kernel from fai-kernels_1.5, it's 2.4.20.

my configuration is /etc/fai/fai.conf:
installserver=moon
ftpserver=ftp.debian.org
debdist=woody # distribution: woody, sarge, sid
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="$debdist http://debian:9999/main"
FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS="--arch i386 --exclude=pcmcia-cs,ppp,pppconfig,pppoe,pppoeconf"
FAI_SOURCES_LIST="deb http://debian:9999/main $debdist main contrib non-free
deb http://debian:9999/non-US $debdist/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ $debdist/updates main contrib non-free"
FAI_LOCAL_REPOSITORY="deb file:/fai/files packages/"
NFSROOT_PACKAGES="expect"
FAI_ROOTPW="56hNVqht51tzc"
KERNELPACKAGE=/usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_fai_2_i386.deb
NFSROOT_ETC_HOSTS="10.16.66.20 moon fai"
LOGUSER=fai
FAI_REMOTESH=rsh
FAI_REMOTECP=rcp
FAI_CONFIGDIR=/usr/local/share/fai
FAI_LOCATION=$installserver:$FAI_CONFIGDIR
NFSROOT=/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
FAI=/fai
OS_TYPE=`uname -s |  tr /A-Z/ /a-z/`

I use PXE and my default is
default fai-install

label fai-install
kernel installkernel
append ip=dhcp

label fai-local
kernel localkernel

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Radek Hnilica <Radek at Hnilica dot CZ>
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