no IP address

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Tue Jun 21 21:36:39 CEST 2011


From: "Thomas Lange" <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
To: "linux-fai" <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: no IP address


>>>>>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:49:01 -0500, "John G. Heim" 
>>>>>> <jheim at math.wisc.edu> said:
>
>    > into an FAI install? I have a test machine that boots into linux and 
> gets an
>    > IP address via DHCP. But when i boot into an FAI install via a CDROM, 
> it
>    > drops into the initramfs shell and says it couldn't find a live file 
> system.
> Mmm. do you have more detailed error messages? Have a look at
> live.log. Is this the original FAI CD from the project web page? Which
> FAI version?

Its the FAI version from debian testing, 3.4.8. I generated an iso file via 
the fai-cd command because I need to modify the
initrd to load a speakup screen reader module.

The live.log file containes one line:

Begin: Running /scripts/live-premount ... done.



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