FAI install PXE boot hangs: "add_mountroot_fail_hook not found"

[Frank Thommen]

On 09/24/2015 09:28 PM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015 20:19:22 +0200, Frank Thommen <f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de> said:
>
>      > addendum: "it" also tries to find /lib/udev/hwdb.bin for quite a while
>      > (see screenshot)
>
> We already had this problem on the linux-fai mailing list. See
> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2015-August/011058.html

Thx.


> Which FAI version are you using? I guess 3.4.8..ubuntu...
> There's a newer version (4.3.2...) in a launchpad PPA, which will work
> much better than the really old 3.4.8 version, since it is used and
> tested by a Ubuntu user. It's available at
> https://launchpad.net/~fai/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

It seems I /have/ already 4.3.2:

$ dpkg --list | grep fai
ii  fai-client                                            4.3.2+wheezy1 
                                       all          Fully Automatic 
Installation client package
ii  fai-doc                                               4.3.2+wheezy1 
                                       all          Documentation for FAI
ii  fai-quickstart                                        4.3.2+wheezy1 
                                       all          Fully Automatic 
Installation quickstart package
ii  fai-server                                            4.3.2+wheezy1 
                                       all          Fully Automatic 
Installation server package
ii  libautodie-perl                                       2.23-1 
                                       all          Perl pragma to make 
certain failures fatal
$


> Since I do not use Ubuntu, I cannot help very much. If the 4.3.2
> version from the PPA does not work good enough, I would recommend to
> use a Debian nfsroot for installing Ubuntu. This will work. A generic
> Debian nfsroot can be found at
> http://fai-project.org/download/misc/nfsroot-generic-fai-4.3.3.tar.xz
> but you have to adjust (fai-make-nfsroot -a) it.

Thanks a lot. I'll give this a try next week.

I'm still in the process of getting a better understanding of FAI (and 
Debian and Ubunto, coming from 100% RHEL/CentOS :-)

Frank