Boot-looping or hanging Debian 11 FAI UEFI PXE

[Nicolas Formichella]

Hello Thomas and thanks all for your answers

I am using FAI v.6.2.2 on a Debian 12 base

>Do you use systemd inside the nfsroot? Yes
> FAI never used these options:
  rd.live.overlay.overlayfs=1 rd.live.overlay.readonly=1
I'm pretty sure they will break things.
Instead you have to use the option rootovl. : This was a debugging attempt, resetting it to

```
append initrd=initrd.img-5.10.0-29-amd64 ip=dhcp root=/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3 rootovl  FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt FAI_CONFIG_SRC=nfs://faiserver/srv/fai/fai_config/ FAI_ACTION=install
```

Did not fix anything and exhibits the same crashing behaviour, which did not occur when running

> If you still have this line in NFSROOT (when using FAI 6.2),
please remove it abd rebuild your nfsroot.

> sysvinit-core systemd-sysv-

This VM was clean-installed with 6.2.2 and does not contain the line in the /etc/fai/NFSROOT file

Regards,
Nicolas

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From: linux-fai <linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de> on behalf of Thomas Lange <lange at cs.uni-koeln.de>
Sent: Tuesday 7 May 2024 11:09
To: fully automatic installation for Linux <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Boot-looping or hanging Debian 11 FAI UEFI PXE
 
>>>>> On Tue, 7 May 2024 08:13:42 +0000, Nicolas Formichella <stigpro at outlook.fr> said:

    > Hello,
    > I am wanting to test a deployment for a Debian 11 KVM VM using a Debian 12 KVM VM, but it crashes and bootloops with seemingly no reasoning.

    > ```
    > 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
    > ```

FAI never used these options:
  rd.live.overlay.overlayfs=1 rd.live.overlay.readonly=1
I'm pretty sure they will break things.
Instead you have to use the option rootovl.

There may be problems if your nfsroot is not build properly. First,
which FAI version are you using? Do you use systemd inside the nfsroot?
FAI 6.2 uses systemd during the installation and if you still have an
older /etc/fai/NFSROOT config file systsemd may be missing inside the
nfsroot. If you still have this line in NFSROOT (when using FAI 6.2),
please remove it abd rebuild your nfsroot.

sysvinit-core systemd-sysv-


If you are using FAI < 6.2, the nfsroot does not use systemd and I
wonder why you have added some systemd.log... options to the kernel
command line.
--
regards Thomas