help still needed for fai-bootcd...

[Thomas Wuppermann]

Hi Niall, hi Rene, hi everybody,


I still have problems using fai-bootcd and did a little research on my
problems using fai-bootcd, they seem to be related to
gibraltar-bootsupport: 

while booting up from fai-bootcd after successfull initrd setup, the
following Error-Message occurs:

----snip----------------

/linuxrc: /sbin/prepareroot: not fond

----snap----------------

followed by a few lines of errors which seem to depend on this error.

prepareroot is a script included only in gibraltar-bootsupport. 
It is called by linuxrc which belongs to mkinitrd-cd.
The Installation of mkintrd-cd doesn't depend on gibraltar and
prepareroot isn't included in mkinitrd-cd.
So I do not understand how this script should be installed on the
fai-bootcd?

I tried to install gibraltar in the nfsroot using $NFSROOT_PACKAGES but
this ends with the error Mark Hedges described in his mailings on the
list (also see
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg01221.html ).

Setting up gibraltar-bootsupport (0.19) ...
update-rc.d: warning /etc/init.d/mountvar doesn't exist. Terminating
dpkg: error processing gibraltar-bootsupport (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gibraltar-bootsupport
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I fixed that by issuing "cp -avx /system/etc-static/* /etc/" inside the
nfsroot and reinstalling gibraltar-bootsupport, which didn't complain
anymore.
 
gibraltar-bootsupport in woody is v0.19 and seems to be broken (?): it
includes a directory "/system" in the root directory - which is not
normal. But, that's the same in gibraltar-bootsupport v0.27 !!?

The Inspection of the output of make-fai-bootcd does not show any
errors.

Do you have any hints on this?

Thanks in Advance

Thomas


After installing gibraltar-bootsupport 0.17 as described above 
the CD generated with make-fai-bootcd boots like this:
---------------------------
searching for CD ....
trying to locate cdrom: found: cdroms/cdrom0
  checking cdroms/cdrom0 ... 
found
Initial ram disk setup completed. Initiating normal boot procedure.

/sbin/prepareroot: /etc/default/common-definitions.sh: No such file or directory
/sbin/prepareroot: /etc/default/ide-scsi-probe.sh: No such file or directory
cat: /proc/sys/kernel/printk: No such file or directory
INIT: version 2.84 booting
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
mount: can't find /proc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Activating swap.
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
mount: can't find /proc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
*** ERROR!  Cannot fsck root fs because it is not mounted read-only!

warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
mount: can't find /proc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
sh: /etc/mtab: Read-only file system
Detecting hardware:
No CD/DVD drives found.
System time was Tue Nov  4 06:34:38 UTC 2003.
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
System Clock set. System local time is now Tue Nov  4 06:34:42 UTC 2003.
Checking all file systems...
fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno
        field. I will kludge around things for you, but you
        should fix your /etc/fstab file as soon as you can.

Setting kernel variables.
Loading the saved-state of the serial device...
grep: /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
grep: /proc/mounts: No such file or directory
sh: [: =: unary operator expected
Mounting local filesystems...
nothing was mounted
Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate
Setting up IP spoofing protection: FAILED
Configuring network interfaces: done.
/etc/init.d/mountvar: /etc/default/common-definitions.sh: No such file or directory
Starting portmap daemon: portmap
grep: /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory

Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
System Clock set. System local time is now Tue Nov  4 07:34:44 CET 2003.

sh: /etc/nologin: Read-only file system
cp: cannot stat '/etc/nologin': No such file or directory
Cleaning: /tmp /var/lock /var/runsh: cd: /var/run: No such file or directory
sh: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory
Initializing random number generator... urandom start: failed.
done
Recovering nvi editor sessions... done.
sh: /etc/default/common-definitions.sh: No such file or directory
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting system log daemon: syslogd
Starting kernel log daemon: klogd
Starting internet super server: inetd.
mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/run/sshd': No such file or directory
chmod: getting attributes of '/var/run/sshd': No such file or directory
Starting OpenBSD secure shell server: sshd.
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
[loop forever]