Not using fai-chboot (was: FAI failure behavior)

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 11:24:01 -0500, Peter Keller <psilord at cs.wisc.edu> said:

    > hang with the default generated localboot 0 line. I have to use something
    > like this instead:

    > LABEL fai-generated 
    >     MENU LABEL Boot from first hard drive
    >     COM32 chain.c32
    >     APPEND hd0

    > If that ALWAYS works, and localboot 0 sometimes fails, maybe fai-chboot
    > should be changed to emit the above instead? 
If this works for you, just save it to /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/default.
Then the task chboot will use it for your install clients after they
finished their installation.


    > I do have one question though, in the fai-monitor output I see this:
    > (none) check
    > (none) TASKBEGIN confdir
    > (none) TASKEND confdir 0
    > (none) TASKBEGIN setup
    > (none) TASKEND setup 0
    > ....
    > The installing client machine has the ability to map the ip address dhcp
    > gave it back to a name and the fai server can too. I'm not entirely sure
    > why I see (none) there.
Did you have 
   use-host-decl-names on;
in your dhcpd.conf?

-- 
regards Thomas