FAI in maverick

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Mon Feb 28 16:25:28 CET 2011


FAI was broken in maverick because live-initramfs has been removed from
the archive for maverick. I've uploaded the lucid version to the FAI
PPA, which unbreaks FAI.

Another issue was that with maverick, the bootoptions 'boot=live
root=/dev/nfs' causes a kernel panic before the nfsroot is
mounted. Changing this to 'boot=live netboot=nfs' fixed it. I'm not
exactly sure what the exact cause is, my current theory is that
'boot=live' tries to mount the rootfs via cifs but fails. After
debugging the generated initramfs, I got the idea to play with the
netboot parameter, which immediately worked for me.

IOW: I've upgraded our student lab to install ubuntu/maverick with FAI.

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