Using FAI to install a "root Server"

[Torsten Schlabach]

Ok, I got a bit further into the potential problem.

I guess that the FAI kernel is supposed to start the /etc/init.d/rcS 
from the NFS mounted root file system at some point in time, but for 
whatever reason, it doesn't.

I have added some lines of code to the rcS script like this:

# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
# Main routine

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
echo "I was here" >> /mnt/tmp/Iwashere
umount /mnt

# Parse commandline options

But that file Iwashere is not written.

Can I check anything to find out why the root filesystem is obviously 
mounted through NFS but then something's failing?

Regards,
Torsten

P.S.: Sorry, you list is not configured to send replies to the list. 
Therefor me earlier reply might have gotten send just to you.


Thomas Lange schrieb:
>>>>>>On Fri, 11 May 2007 12:44:56 +0200, Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net> said:
> 
> 
>     >> Which FAI version are you using?
>     > 3.1.8, installed from Debian Etch packages.
> 
>     >> Read the log files
>     > Which ones?
> All! :-)
> 
>     > I mean this is where my problem is:
> 
>     > I don't know if the client (the to be installed machine) is logging 
>     > anything, but as I wrote, on faimond there is nothing showing up at all. 
>     > This suggests that the client mounts the NFS root and get's lost then, 
>     > doesn't it?
> Maybe you ISP blocks port 4711. But anyway.
> Try to ssh into you install client. If you haved added the flag sshd
> to FAI_FLAGS, the you can log in as root intop your client. The you
> can also read the log files.
>