fai-cd not bootable on some computers

[Christian Meyer]

Hello Thomas,

Am Sonntag, den 07.04.2019, 19:49 +0200 schrieb Thomas Lange:
> > > > > > On Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:00:32 +0200, Christian Meyer <c2h5oh
> > > > > > @web.de> said:
>
> Two computers didn't boot at all, 8 Laptops showed a warning
> "no bootable media" or "no bootable partition"
> I guess these are older computers that failed to boot.


> > My points are:
> > document the workaround
> > and there: https://fai-project.org/doc/man/fai-cd.html
> It's already in the later URL.

Sorry I didn't see it.


> > b) Since I want to provide my modification to others: Is it
> > possible to
> >  change the boot-flag in the ISO-image before dd-ing it

> > # parted /path/to/fai.iso set 1 boot on
> I will try this during the next days.

I found time to test an modified image on a Lenovo L530.


> > Wouldn't it be possible to change fai-cd to make the
> > first partition bootable by default?
> If this works, we need a bug report, so I can fix it for the next FAI
> release and upload it.

Short: It worked.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926693


> It would be nice if you could send me a patch for the fai-guide or
> open a merge request on github.

With a fixed fai-cd the problem is gone and changing fai-guide seems
not to be neccessary any more.

Thanks a lot,
Christian