FAI problems on Ubuntu 11.04

[Dashamir Hoxha]

Michael Tautschnig on Sun Jun 5 23:45:17 CEST 2011 wrote:

> (STDOUT)
> (STDOUT) Number  Start        End          Type      File system  Flags
> (STDOUT)  1      0,0,19       1809,187,41  primary   ntfs         boot
> (STDOUT)  2      1809,187,42  9728,254,62  extended               lba
> (STDOUT)  5      1809,188,42  9728,254,62  logical   ntfs
> (STDOUT)         9729,0,0     9729,80,62             Free Space
> (STDOUT)

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Hmm, ok, I have never before seen a partition start that early... But anyway,
that's a bug in setup-storage it seems. I've added a fix to the experimental
releases, although it will take a few more days until we get back our
auto-builds for experimental.
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Hi,

I have tried to install the latest experimental version, by adding:
deb http://fai-project.org/download experimental koeln
to /etc/apt/sources.list (as well as to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list)

However the latest version still seems to be experimental90 (1 May 2011).
If I was familiar with building DEB packages, I would have tried the
instructions on:
http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/Development_with_quilt
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/fai/branches/experimental/README?revision=5762&view=markup

However, since I am more familiar with applying patches, I tried to
apply the latest patches from:
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/fai/branches/experimental/patches/
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setup-storage_first-part-at-1M (2011-05-23)
setup-storage_align-first-part-preserve (2011-06-05)
setup-storage_loopback-support (2011-06-05)
setup-storage_softraid-assemble-error (2011-06-05)
setup-storage_syntax-check-mode (2011-06-05)
setup-storage_udevsettle-before-vol-id (2011-06-06)
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Then I tried again 'fai-setup -v' and then client re-install.
The result was the same.

Besides I have noticed this during fai-setup:
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Shadow passwords are now on.
cp: cannot stat `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinu?-*':
No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat
`/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/initrd.img-*': No such file
or directory
DHCP environment prepared. If you want to use it, you have to enable
the dhcpd and the tftp-hpa daemon.
ERROR: No initrd installed.
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I don't know whether there is any relation between this error and the
setup-storage problem.

Regards,
Dashamir