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

Andreas Heinlein aheinlein at gmx.com
Tue Apr 2 14:19:38 CEST 2019


Hello,

indeed, 5.8.4 fixes both problems. Should have tried that first; sorry
for the inconvenience.

Andreas

Am 02.04.19 um 09:57 schrieb 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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