Installing kernel's for local boot

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Hey everyone,

I've been playing with getting FAI setup for a couple weeks now.  I've 
spent a lot of time with the manual as well as the howto for installing 
custom kernels.  The thing is, the howto is pretty dated.  It comments 
putting files in files/packages which was deprecated in 2.54 from what I 
can tell.  So there are a number of things confusing me, but I've done 
my best to try and figure them out.

So it seems to me that kernel's are specified in two places:
   1.  /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
   2.  specify a kernel for PXE that lives /srv/tftp/fai/ (or whereever 
your tftp stuff is housed I guess).


So, my question, the boot kernel is always going to be vmlinuz install  
or whatever you point to using fai-chboot right?  From the comments in 
the conf file, the kernel from make-fai-nfsroot.conf is the kernel that 
will boot via nfs.  I'm a bit confused as to how this works. 

Anyhow, following that stuff..  what's the best way to configure fai to 
install a specific kernel for class?  Since the howto talks about 
seriously deprecated things, I'm assuming a better was has been put in 
place.  If there's no fancy way, does anyone do a brute force approach 
where the kernel is copied by a script to /boot along with all the other 
necessary things (menu.lst, modules, etc).?




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Carl J. Van Arsdall
cvanarsdall at mvista.com
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