FAI install PXE boot hangs: "add_mountroot_fail_hook not found"

[Frank Thommen]

On 09/24/2015 08:11 PM, Frank Thommen wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I followed the instructions on
> http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_Linux_with_FAI to
> install Ubuntu 14.04 from an Ubuntu 14.04 server.  However when the
> client boots via PXE, at some point it complains that in script
> /scripts/init-premount/mdadm and /scripts/init-premount/lvm2 it cannot
> find "add_mountroot_fail_hook".  Later on the boot process loops forever
> in an USB disconnnect-USB connect cycle of the USB mouse.
>
> I'm not sure if the two issues are connected, but that's about what I
> can see on the console.
>
> fai-setup has been run as `fai-setup -vlfk`.  fai-setup.log is attached.
>    I'm not sure what to do with the messages regarding initramfs-tools in
> the fai-setup.log, either.  The system is up-to-date:
>
> # apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
>     libevdev2
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
> The following packages have been kept back:
>     initramfs-tools linux-generic-lts-vivid linux-headers-generic-lts-vivid
>     linux-image-generic-lts-vivid
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> #
>
> Any hint or reference to further reading is highly appreciated.  Also
> let me know if you need additional information.

addendum: "it" also tries to find /lib/udev/hwdb.bin for quite a while 
(see screenshot)

frank
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