Boot-looping or hanging Debian 11 FAI UEFI PXE

Dirk Geschke dirk at lug-erding.de
Tue May 7 10:38:21 CEST 2024


Hi Nicolas,

> The crash seems to come right after NFS mounts but even debug log seem to say nothing, and sometimes it just straight up hangs at IPv6 configuration.
> 
> pxelinux.cfg config (tried with a fresh `fai-chboot - : 
> ```
> append initrd=initrd.img-5.10.0-29-amd64 ip=dhcp  root=/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3 rd.live.overlay.overlayfs=1 rd.live.overlay.readonly=1 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200  FAI_FLAGS=debug,sshd,createvt FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/fai_config/ FAI_ACTION=install systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=console systemd.journald.forward_to_console=1
> ```

shouldn't there be something like an NFS server in the configuration?

E.g. root=nfs:<ip-of-NFS-Server>:/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3

Or how should it find the the NFS server?

Best regards

Dirk

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