Starting a FAI installation using kexec - technical thread

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 28 May 2009 12:56:15 +0200, Torsten Schlabach <tschlabach at gmx.net> said:

    > To ask a simple question:

    > There is no FAI install kernel anymore; FAI is using a stock Debian 
    > kernel now, right?
Yep, FAI is using a stock Debian kernel, which includes some
hooks/plugins for initramfs. We use the live-initramfs packages that
add some script into the initrd.

    > Is there mabye a FAI initrd
You can find the "FAI initrd" inside the nfsroot. /srv/fai/nfsroot/...../boot

    > system" howto it says "the NFS support must be statically compiled into 
    > the kernel".
That's not true nowadays.

    > Also quite honestly I could use some pointer to understanding that /live 
    > dir in the initrd which is used by FAI today ... What's in there which 
    > is no longer in the NFS root for example? Does the whole install run out 
    > of the /live dir now?
That's part of live-initramfs, but you do not need to care about this.
FAI is runnung from /. AFAIK /live is only used during boot, before a
pivot_root is done.

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regards Thomas