netboot rescue disk with FAI

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Tue Mar 3 15:12:46 CET 2009


>>>>> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:51:49 +0100, Jean Spirat <jeanspirat at squirk.org> said:

    >  I wanted to know if anyone use fAI to netboot a rescue disk on their 
    > system. I mean when a server is having issue and do not boot use the pxe 
    > boot and fai to use it to netboot a live system that will be used with 
    > parted and other filesystem tools to repair the system and chroot into 
    > /target etc ?

    >  It seems sysinfo FAI_FLAGS is near what i look for, anyone know how to 
    > duplicate the sysinfo hook with for exemple mount RW instead of read 
    > only etc.. One important feature would be to have a root password setup 
    > that is different on each "netboot" etc... :)  Any ideas ?
you can define actions on your own (for e.g. myaction) and boot them
with FAI_ACTION=myaction. Therefore create the file hooks/myaction
in the config space which will automatically be executed.

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regards Thomas


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