Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

[sebastian at coli.uni-saarland.de]

Hi,
I'm struggeling figuring out how to make FAI work with ubuntu 16.04. My
base system is an ubuntu 16.04 as well and I'm using 5.0.3ubuntu1.

Can anyone share his NFSROOT-file and nfsroot-hooks ?

There are two problems I face right now:

1.) systemd

2.) dracut and initramfs


Problem with 1.) is that systemd is not supported by fai but installed.
I tried to fix that with a hook but I'm not sure if this results in a
working nfsroot:

root at fai:/etc/fai# cat nfsroot-hooks/10-upstart 
#!/bin/sh
$ROOTCMD apt-get install upstart
$ROOTCMD apt-get install upstart-sysv
$ROOTCMD rm -f /sbin/init
$ROOTCMD ln -s $NFSROOT/sbin/upstart /sbin/init
# If rcS.conf is not removed, FAI will be started twice.
$ROOTCMD rm /etc/init/rcS.conf


Problem with 2.) ist that fai-make-nfsroot has an hardcoded
dependency for dracut in the check_nfsroot() function. But dracut
conflicts with initramfs-tools which are needed by other packages..
At the moment I have no solution for this.