no IP address

[John G. Heim]

From: "Thomas Lange" <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de>
To: "linux-fai" <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: no IP address


>>>>>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:36:39 -0500, "John G. Heim" 
>>>>>> <jheim at math.wisc.edu> said:
>
>    > 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.
> Hi John,
>
> yep, I remember that you need the speakup module. In 3.4.8 we changed
> the menu.lst for the fai CD. Before it contained the parameters:
>
> ip=192.168.1.1:::::eth0:off
>
> or similar. But the ip= parameter did not worked with new
> live-boot versions, so it was completely removed. Now we also use
> grub2 and grub.cfg.
>
> I hope this helps for now
> -- 
> regards Thomas

Well, I've made a little progress. I modified the grub.conf in /etc/fai and 
I see that the grub.cnf file in the iso file reflects the changes I made. 
So the man page for fai-cd says fai-cd uses the file /usr/share/fai/menu.lst 
but, apparently, that is depricated.  You need to edit /etc/fai/grub.conf 
instead.

I modified the file /detc/fi/grub.conf and added  ip=:::::eth0:dhcp to each 
of the lines that said boot=live. But it did not seem to work.   The 
live-boot man page says the ip= parameter should work. I mean, I don't know 
if my configuration is correct but its still supported according to the 
live-boot man page.