Upgrading from a working etch to lenny

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Sun Dec 28 15:38:05 CET 2008


>>>>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:01:54 +0100, Aitor <mail at aitorpazos.es> said:


    > upgrade to lenny. I've updated the FAI server machine so now I have FAI
    > 3.2. 
Which FAI version do you have? 3.2.14 is the newest version in lenny.

    > The problem now is that when I try to perform an install on a
    > client I get errors because root filesystem is mounted as read-only. It
    > tries to use nfs fs instead of a ram based one so obviously it can't
    > write on nfs. I've included live-initramfs, live-helper and unionfs in
    > NFSROOT packages.
the lenny package of FAI now uses aufs instead of unionfs.

    > Boot params for pxelinux.cfg/*:
    > kernel vmlinuz
    > append initrd=initrd.img ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs
    > nfsroot=192.168.84.113:/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir,v3
This is worng. You should always use fai-chboot to create the
pxelinux.cfg files.

Which kernel are you using during installation?
-- 
regards Thomas


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