manually restarting install?

[John G Heim]

On 1/4/19 11:18 AM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:43:42 -0600, John G Heim <jheim at math.wisc.edu> said:
> 
>      > If the config space fails to mount during an install, can I restart the
>      > install by hand after manually mounting the config space?
> I never tried this, I always call faireboot.
> 


I couldn't get it to work. "fai -s nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/config/ 
install" seemed to sort of work. I think there were probably some kernel 
modules missing because it couldn't partition the hard drive. So I gave up.

The problem was that the /etc/resolv.conf file on the target system had 
no name servers, and an incorrect search setting. I've done 4 other 
installs today and only one machine showed that behaviour. Very strange.

I worked around it by configuring the /etc/hosts file in the nfs root. 
It really just needed the address of the faiserver. Something like:

192.168.0.31 faiserver

Then the install proceded as normal. The only thing I can figure is that 
this machine has 3 network interfaces and (I still don't know why) it 
was detecting a carrier on one that does not have a cable plugged in. 
Something wrong with the carrier detection in the linux kernel I'd say. 
Maybe that messed up generation of /etc/resolv.conf. No idea.

only the line "search local" in it. No domain,