fai-installation fails

[Alexander Bugl]

Hi!

> after rebooting grub is trying to boot the default entry, but fails with error 
> message "Error 1 - File name must by either an absolute pathname or 
> blocklist".
> error.log tells me the following:
> shell.log:E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386
> shell.log:ls: vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory
> shell.log:ls: /tmp/target/boot/vmlinuz-*: No such file or directory

> fai-kernels is installed, the correct KERNELPACKAGE ist set 
> in /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf

KERNELPACKAGE is IMHO only used for generating the NFS root (and as such
it is defined in /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf).

But you have to install a kernel package on the machine which is due to
be installed, and that has failed (see your above cited error messages).
This may be because there is no Debian package named
kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386 (see <http://packages.debian.org>).

Try using kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 or the more generic kernel-image-2.4-386,
then the installation should run through. You can define this in
/usr/local/share/fai/class/DEFAULT.var, if you use the simple example files.

Best regards, Alex

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Alexander Bugl,  Central IT Services, ZMAW
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