FAI release 2.5.2

[Max Lovius]

On Monday, 19 January, 2004 4:13 PM Dylan Vaughn wrote:

>Seems that the updated kernel to be installed on the clients (2.4.22) 
>requires a version of initrd-tools that is only in Sarge or on
backports.org.
>
I die with: 

"VFS: Cannot open root device "hda1" or 03:01"
"Please append a correct "root=" boot option"
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01"

Would that be simuler to your problems? If so, Did you try Sarge, as I am
having the same on Sarge!

Thanks
Max

-----Original Message-----
From: Dylan Vaughn [mailto:dylan at dcvaughn.com] 
Sent: Monday, 19 January, 2004 4:13 PM
To: Thomas Lange
Cc: Joachim Schmitz; linux-fai
Subject: Re: FAI release 2.5.2




On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 02:45, Thomas Lange wrote:
> 
> Yes, this is right. It's not a bug, but also not really perfect. Just 
> change 2.4.22 in fai.conf to 2.4.20 and everything works.
> 

Related to this, I also found that if you're doing a stock woody install
using the latest FAI packages (fai and fai-kernels) the install will fail
somewhat mysteriously, getting through the install only to have the client
unable to reboot afterwards.  Seems that the updated kernel to be installed
on the clients (2.4.22) requires a version of initrd-tools that is only in
Sarge or on backports.org.  When I put:

deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable initrd-tools

into FAI_SOURCES_LIST at /etc/fai/fai.conf everything worked fine.  

thanks, 

dylan