FAI & Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

[Jonathan M. McCune]

Hi Robert, list,

I have encountered the exact same problem with 3.2.4+svn4837.  I too 
thought I made progress by creating the '/usr/bin/udevinfo' directory, 
and then encountered the '/var/lib/fai/config does not exist' error upon 
booting the clients (doesn't seem to matter if I chboot to 'install' or 
'sysinfo').  Worse, a simple `ls /var/lib/fai/config` at the resulting 
shell shows that the directory _does_ exist.

My sense is that another result of the 'usr/bin/udevinfo' problem is 
that the nfsroot doesn't get fully configured, but I have only a few 
days' experience with FAI.

I noticed that make-fai-nfsroot on Ubuntu has a '-U' option specifically 
to do with update-initramfs on Ubuntu (the above error wrt 
/usr/bin/udevinfo occurs when trying to create the initramfs), so I 
tried passing that to fai-setup, but I get a lot of aptitude errors.  
I've attached my fai-setup.log (UPDATE: no I haven't, it's too big for 
the listserv.  You can see it here: 
http://sparrow.ece.cmu.edu/~jmmccune/fai-setup.log).

I also value any information about experiences with Jaunty.  I would 
really like to get this thing going today.

Thanks!
-Jon



> Hello list,
> has anyone got FAI to install Ubuntu Jaunty Clients?
>
> I'm having an Ubuntu 9.04 Server and want to install 9.04 Clients using
> FAI (both the shipped 3.2.4+svn4837 version as well as the latest 3.2.20
> from the FAI repository), and both versions fail to install initrd.
>
> With 3.2.4 I could solve it by chrooting into the nfsroot and creating
> the directory "/usr/bin/udevinfo", but the install would hang when FAI
> is about to mount the config directory (the error message reads
> "mount.nfs: mount point /var/lib/fai/config does not exist").
>
> With 3.2.20 I can't get the initrd problem to solve, thus being stuck at
> the early beginning.
>
> Any experiences with Jaunty - both good and bad - are very appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
>