Problems with nfsroot if dhcp-server and fai-server are not the same

[René Bleisch]

Hi Thomas,
thanks for your tipp with the template option of fai-chboot
Really a useful tool - I didnt know it yet
It seems to work with it

Thanks a lot!
René

On 07/01/2015 11:43 AM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:35:16 +0200, René Bleisch <accounts at climate.unibe.ch> said:
>     > I can easily fix this by adapting /etc/fai/nfsroot.conf:
>     > NFSROOT=nfs:phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot
> This is not supported. NFSROOT must be a directory, since this
> variable is also used by other scripts and commands.
>
>     > => Thomas, would it be possible to add a new option to "fai-chboot", to
>     > provide a user-defined value for the "root=..." directive?
>     >  (It would make life quite easier for me)
>
>     > (=> is it such a special thing to have a separate dhcp and fai-server?)
> I also have this setup, since I'm not allowed to run my own DHCP
> server :-(. IMO it's a bug in dracut, but upstream didn't changed the
> code as I suggested. Maybe I should ask again.
>
> I use a templte for fai-chboot. Do you know this feature?
> I've created a file /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/jessie.tmpl (by calling
> fai-chboot and then editing it). For each new install client, I call
>
>  fai-chboot -vc jessie.tmpl newclient
>
>
> That way, the template gets copied to the config for the client called
> newclient.
>