FAI 3.2.4 and fai-cd

[Russel Hill]

I know ... I'm replying to my own message. Since trying our build, we've 
downloaded and booted the fai-cd example. It's organized in exactly the 
same manner (and works). I guess I should probably read up a bit ...

One thing, our CD doesn't report any unionfs messages when mounting the 
root filesystem. The fai-cd does ...


Russel Hill wrote:
> We've been using FAI for quite a while now and we're attempting to step 
> up from FAI v3.1 to v3.2.4. Most everything is working for us except ... 
> the ISO built by fai-cd is not quite organized properly. It is a 
> bootable CD (/boot exists and contains an kernel and grub). The rest of 
> the root filesystem ends up in /live/filesystem.dir/. When booting from 
> the CD we get a long timeout while "waiting for the root filesystem".
> 
> I've looked at what fai-cd is doing. It creates the temporary dir $tmp 
> and then constructs $tmp/boot/grub. It then mounts 
> nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir in $tmp/live/filesystem.dir. There are some 
> other steps but ... nothing changes the basic organization that the root 
> filesystem is in $tmp/live/filesystem.dir while boot is in $tmp. The 
> mkisofs call builds the iso from $tmp.
> 
> Am I missing something? Please help.
>