Table of Contents
Week 10
TO DO List
- Complete the deployment script
- Deploy it on BKO
These are the pages and problems on which I am currently working
- Debian over iscsi – done –
- ubuntu in BKO – Finally it is working after removing
networking
andNetworkManager
, only/etc/resolver.conf
entry needs a fix –
27 July
- Working on deployment script.
- Completed the deployment script.
- There were small (and stupid) error which surfaced in the process of actual deployment, fixed them.
- Started the deployment process
- There was urgent need to support URL as boot.kernel.org mirror selection works at dns level.
- Adding /etc/resolv.conf to all the distributions with pre-configured value
nameserver 208.67.222.222
- By end of the day, only debian was properly working over BKO. knoppix was getting stuck somewhere inbetween.
28 July
- As mirror selection is done at DNS level, removed the entries for URL's from boot menu.
- added default
/etc/resolv.conf
to all distributions - DSL is throwing following error
httpfs : getaddrinfo rom.etherboot.org - Name or service not known.
- About ubuntu, it is booting properly from squashfs, but ISO is not booting. Most probably I have messed up the script where selection between iso and squashfs is done
29-30 July
- After some debugging I agree with Warthog now that the problem indeed is long boot parameters.
- Worked on fixing the problem by shortening the URL names.
- Shortened the Directory names
- Shortened the ISO names
- moved out the pxeknife part
31 July
- After discussion with Warthog9, decided to revert back the old style.
- And the problem of long boot parameters will be solved by hardcoding the boot parameters inside initramfs.
- Realized the problem that we will be facing,
- Will need separate initramfs for all locations. (as location is hardcoded in)
- The change of location will trigger modification of code of all distributions