fai-make-nfsroot docs and missing reboot

[Diego Zuccato]

Hi Robert.

Then it seems the docs are outdated. Not a big issue, even if the 
described behaviour would be more useful (automatic reboot if no errors, 
wait for confirmation in case of errors unless 'reboot' is given). :)

BYtE,
  Diego

Il 31/05/2022 12:23, Robert Markula ha scritto:
> Hi Diego,
> 
>> Moreover, at the end of the install, after saying there were no 
>> errors, FAI asked to press ENTER to reboot, but IIUC that should me 
>> automatic, w/o manual confirmation: docs at 
>> https://fai-project.org/fai-guide/#_a_id_faiflags_a_fai_flags says 
>> that "If no errors occurred, the client will always reboot 
>> automatically." and that seems not to be the case (but it's exactly 
>> what I wanted: no error = boot into newly installed SO w/o any 
>> interaction, while specifying 'reboot' seems to suggest that it 
>> reboots also in case of errors).
> 
> In your template (e.g. /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/DEFAULT.tmpl or 
> whereever your tftp root lies) you have to add 'reboot' to your 
> 'FAI_FLAGS'. My DEFAULT.tmpl looks like this:
> 
> <snip>
> # generated by fai-chboot for host default with IP no IP
> default fai-generated
> 
> label fai-generated
> 
> kernel vmlinuz-4.19.0-17-amd64
> append initrd=initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 ip=dhcp 
> root=10.12.0.1:/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3 rootovl 
> FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot 
> FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://10.12.0.1/srv/fai/config FAI_ACTION=install
> </snip>
> 
> 'sshd' allows me to SSH into the machine during install, with 'createvt' 
> I can switch to a dedicated virtual terminal during install and 'reboot' 
> instructs FAI to reboot at the end of the installation process instead 
> of waiting for someone to press 'enter'.
> 
> 
> Robert

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