Ubuntu 14.04 host: kernel panic

[Robert Markula]

Hi Thomas,

On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 10:14 +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> That sounds interesting. Did you ever fill out the FAI questionnaire?
> I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI.
> Please fill out http://fai-project.org/questionnaire
Already done that a few years ago, although the envirtonment has changed
significantly since. Should I fill it out again?
Well, what I've written sounds greater than it actually is. I use
FAI+Cfengine in a local setup consisting of about ~20 machines which are
mainly used to test and simulate certain infrastructure-related
environments. Nothing special.

>     > Now I tried installing Ubuntu 14.04 using FAI.
> This is much more interesting. I like to help as much as I can for
> making this work, since a lot of people like to use FAI on Ubuntu and
> I did not get any feedback about running FAI with the newest Ubuntu
> version.
A few years ago, I've written the UbuntuJauntyInstallationHowTo in the
FAI wiki which outlines things quite (too much) verbosely. The basic
principle is the same: Using a custom base.tgz and adapted sources.list
along with the appropriate apt keys.

> First question: Which FAI version are you using?
As I'm not a fan of PPAs in the sources.list, I use stock FAI
3.4.8ubuntu2 from the Ubuntu 12.04 repository with a few changes to the
FAI configspace.

> For installing Ubuntu 14.04, you are using the Ubuntu 12.04 nfsroot? Is
> that right?
Correct, using the 12.04 nfsroot. It does not pose a problem since the
NFSroot is only used to install the base system. You could even use a
Debian NFSroot to install Ubuntu - I actually did that a few years ago
before moving to Ubuntu on the FAI server itself.

> BTW, we can also switch to #fai on irc for faster help.
Thanks, I appreciate your helping hand! However, this issue is resolved now.
If there is anything I can do to help regarding the FAI/Ubuntu topic,
let me know what you need.

Cheers,

Robert