Kernel panic - FAI 4.1.1

Toomas Tamm tt-fai at kky.ttu.ee
Fri May 9 15:23:22 CEST 2014


I think I have reached the limit of my knowledge and experience on this
matter. Never installed from a FAI-CD myself. My apologies for not being
able to offer further help!

Maybe someone else on the list can help?

Toomas


On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:48 +0100, Rui Teixeira wrote:
> I see your point, but isn't dracut-network only appropriate to install
> over network? I'm using a USB stick here, I don't want to use any type
> of network connection to make the installation.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 2014-05-09 11:21 GMT+01:00 Toomas Tamm <tt-fai at kky.ttu.ee>:
>         Just guessing here, but I think it is not wise to use both
>         dracut and
>         live-boot at the same time.
>         
>         On the other hand, the only difference which should matter for
>         you is
>         the path to FAI nfsroot, and this is a rather trivial change.
>         You may be
>         able to move the kernel manually if needed, or use symbolic
>         links to
>         overcome the difference in nfsroot location.
>         
>         Toomas
>         
>         On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 11:05 +0100, Rui Teixeira wrote:
>         > You're completely right, I'v changed my configuration due to
>         my
>         > problems... since I don't want to use network installation
>         I've
>         > removed dracut-network from /etc/fai/NFSROOT and only leave
>         live-boot-
>         > and live-boot-initramfs-tools-. It make sense to install
>         > dracut-network if I don't want to use network installation?
>         >
>         >
>         > thanks
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > 2014-05-09 9:46 GMT+01:00 Toomas Tamm <tt-fai at kky.ttu.ee>:
>         >         Maybe I am pointing at a completely wrong direction
>         but...
>         >         /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir  is
>         characteristic of the
>         >         older
>         >         versions of FAI (was the package called live-boot?).
>         Newer
>         >         versions of
>         >         FAI use dracut, which places the root directory
>         directly
>         >         under /srv/fai/nfsroot, without the
>         "live/filesystem.dir"
>         >         part.
>         >
>         >         The fact that your set-up refers to
>         "live/filesystem.dir"
>         >         seems
>         >         suspicious, unless you deliberately changed from
>         dracut to
>         >         live-boot.
>         >
>         >         Toomas
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         >         On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 09:23 +0100, Rui Teixeira
>         wrote:
>         >         > > > Have a look at
>         >         > > > http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Grml_Kernel
>         >         >
>         >         > >
>         >         >
>         >         > > So I've configures packages according the given
>         link.
>         >         nfsroot
>         >         > (fai-make-nfsroot -v -l) and mirror (fai-mirror -v
>         -c
>         >         > "$CLASSES_TO_LOAD" /media/mirror/) were created
>         without any
>         >         error.
>         >         > After that I'm trying to create bootable USB pen
>         and > get
>         >         this error
>         >         > (fai-cd -m /media/mirror/ -u /media/pen/):
>         >         > >
>         >         >
>         >         > > NFSROOT
>          /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir
>         >         mounted
>         >         > > ls: cannot
>         >         >
>         access /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinu?-*:
>         >         No such
>         >         > file or directory
>         >         > > preparing grub2 eltorito.img using existing
>         core.img from
>         >         NFSROOT
>         >         > > cp: cannot stat
>         >         >
>         `/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot/vmlinuz-': No
>         >         such file or
>         >         > directory
>         >         > >
>         >         >
>         >         > > In fact vmlinu does not exists, there's
>         something to do
>         >         with the
>         >         > kernel version that Ive used (grml)? Do I need to
>         change
>         >         something
>         >         > else?
>         >         > >
>         >         >
>         >         > > Thanks
>         >
>         >         >
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         
> 
> 


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