Booting into login rather than install

[Ronald Steele]

I tried the new nfsroot and it didn’t fix the problem.

I also tried copying the boot files (initrd,vmlinz etc) from a working system and that didn’t help either.

The boot log shows systemd being started immediately after the kernel initialization is complete.  I would have thought that the FAI install script would start at that point rather than systemd.

If it make a difference, the problem system is not on the internet.  I have had to create local apt and yum repos.   Commands like fai-make-nfsroot must be performed on a remote machine the and the results copied to the problem system.  I’m sure the creates lots of opportunities for configuration errors.

Any other suggestions to  try?

Ron

> On Oct 20, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> On Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:16:25 +0000, Ronald Steele <rsteele at adaptivemethods.com> said:
> 
>> I have a fai-server installation where the client boots into the login prompt rather than doing an install.  I can’t determine what I have done to cause this to happen.   I’ve compared boot params between systems that work and those that don’t and I can’t see any difference.  
> 
> Are you doing PXE boot? Check the pxelinux.cfg
> 
>> I added uses to /srv/fai/nfsroot/etc/ and I can now log into that system, so I’m sure that’s what is happening.
> 
>> Any ideas?
> Maybe a broken nfsroot setup. I saw this in the past. Try to rebuild
> the nfsroot.
> 
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> regards Thomas
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