Install nodes with re-configured kernel image

[Gavin Tran]

> > I've put the following lines into /fai/class/FAIBASE.var
> >
> > addpackages="kernel-image-2.6.8-fai_2_i386"
>
> Do you use the fai-kernels config for the running system (I suspect if
> because the name you are using)? I am not exactly sure if this kernel
> is optimized for usage in production/standard runtime systems, or if
> this is even a bad idea to use this config for something else than a
> FAI installation.

Optimized kernel config has to be an issue to deal with. Suppose that
I could use the kernel config of install server not the kernel for FAI
installation.
Maybe that is a bad idea to use kernel of FAI installation.

> which version of FAI are you using?
FAI 2.8.4

> The addpackages functionality has been removed in some recent
> versions, I don't remeber which one exactly, but look i the list
> archive to find it out, or in the changelog.
>
> You should put the kernel package in a "normal" package list - a hook
> for the class FAIBASE which is included in the simple configuration
> examples makes that the installation of the kernel doesn't break
> because of mkinitrd.

But is it possible to override the fresh kernel-image installed later ?

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Gavin Tran

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