Problems installing a client

Achim Bohnet ach at mpe.mpg.de
Fri Oct 5 10:37:49 CEST 2007


On Thursday, 4. October 2007, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:26:56 +0200, "Bernhard Glomm" <B.Glomm at gmx.de> said:
> 
>     >> You are using the package boot-cd? 
>     > No, I just created a bootable CD instead of a bootfloppy with make-fai-bootfloppy...
> Oh, this is not tested using the new plain kernel with initrd. Maybe
> the initrd is missing on your CD.
> 
>     > ??? Than make-fai-bootcd take the 2.6.18-5-486 kernel
> There's no make-fai-bootcd. What do you mean?
> 
>     > How do I get unionfs to work than?
> Use fai-cd to create a working fai-cd. But this will also include the
> nfsroot.
> 
>     > P.S.: make-fai-bootfloppy also still usese $NFSROOT so I had to patch it with NFSROOT=$NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir to make it work...
> Feel free to submit a bug report for this.

I had a related 'problem' with my nfsroot-hooks, $NFSROOT is useless there.
The interesting peace is $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir.  So I suggested
a var for this.  See #445355.

Achim
> 
> -- 
> regards Thomas
> 
> 



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