FAI and debian live

[Jean Spirat]

a forward from some talk with the FAI guys.. perhaps you can help me here :)



> FAI only needs the live-initramfs package which provides the functions
> to boot from network, mounts the root file system via NFS and adds 
> aufs (another unionfs) on top of it. Using aufs we have write access to all
> files inside the nfsroot which was mounted read-only.
> Other feature of live-initramfs (like setup the locale, enable a user
> account,...) are not needed by FAI.
>
> live-initramfs also is usefull for the fai-cd, were it also helps
> during the boot process.
>
> There are no plans to use more features of debian live. I heared that
> live-initramfs will be split into more packages in the future, so we
> may need less parts from it.
>
>   
ok thanks :)

in fact this is where my AOE mount fails, the system ends up read only
and the aufs part is not working.

What should i take care about when i mount the root file system so it fits with the live system ?

For now i just pur ROOT=/dev/etherd/xxx in the initramfs.conf and use the initrd
to bring the network and AOE tools up (in init-premount).  From the
prompt of the FAI boot i can do a mount and see that there is a 'rootfs'
for / and then my AOE mount also for / so i bet there is only a little
thing i need to trwich to get it done no ?


regards,
Jean.