Boot-looping or hanging Debian 11 FAI UEFI PXE - GRUB issue

[Nicolas Formichella]

Hello Thomas,

Sorry for the late answer, I was out of the office.

I successfully tried your workaround of using v6.0 `fai-make-nfsroot`, however I encountered the fact that FAI 5.10 seem to have different variable handling

After removing ${kernelname} (which wasn't recognized, despite the variable being set), it stopped boot-looping and installs correctly

However, I now have an issue with GRUB-EFI, which seems to not be configured despite being installed (not recognized by the UEFI + shows as missing boot device).
Configuring it manually post-install (using https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall), makes it work just fine

Do I need to add a script to configure grub?

Regards,
Nicolas FORMICHELLA

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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: Wednesday 8 May 2024 14:23
To: fully automatic installation for Linux <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Re: Boot-looping or hanging Debian 11 FAI UEFI PXE
 
>>>>> On Wed, 8 May 2024 14:02:13 +0200, Thomas Lange <lange at cs.uni-koeln.de> said:

    > The problem is a bug in the fai-make-nfsroot script from FAI 6.2.2
    > which prevent the nfsroot root to build correctly.
It's not just a bug in the new version of fai-make-nfsroot, but the new
version cannot build a nfsroot without systemd any more.
So, if you need an old nfsroot (bullseye) without system, use the
fai-make-nfsroot script from FAI 6.0, not the version from 6.2+

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regards Thomas