FAI and Debian Buster (was Re: New ISO images available)

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 08:28:18 +0200, Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein at gmx.com> said:

    > I don't really need ISO images, but if someone has been successful on
    > installing buster with FAI, I'd be happy to hear.
I've done several buster installations for a client using buster.

    > I am currently in the first testing stages, and I am having some trouble
    > with grub and lvm2. It seems there are some new problems related to
    > installing within a chroot. Problem is 1) that update-grub hangs forever
    > and 2) lvm2 postinst hangs with error messages like "WARNING: Device
    > /dev/sda1 not initialized in udev database even after waiting 10000000
    > microseconds."

    > The first seems to be related to os-prober, the latter seems due to some
    > changes in lvm2. I found posts on Arch Linux forums that suggest that
    > you need /run/lvm available within the chroot, but it looks like it
    > already is when installing with FAI.
This is already fixed in FAI 5.8.4.
I'm not sure if it also fixed the first one.

>From the changelog:
  * updatebase: mount /run/udev into /target, Closes: #925247

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regards Thomas