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20 Usage: ${0##*/} [-h|--help] [HOST]
21 fai kexec from upstream live cds, i.e. curl|bash
23 If HOST argument, ssh to root@HOST before doing kexec. This does what
24 pxe would do, but skipping boot sequence up to and including the pxe
28 You can copy this to a http server, then wget -O- url|sudo bash
29 curl is sometimes not preinstalled on a live cd.
31 Alternative to http server:
32 1. on install machine nc -l 1234 | sudo bash
33 2. On another machine nc INSTALL_MACHINE 1234 <live-kexec
34 Obviously beware that anyone on your network could send commands to the install machine.
36 This has been tested on trisquel 7 & 8 & ubuntu 16.04 & 18.10. With
37 18.10 and trisquel 8 on an x200, kexec was unreliable, resulting in
38 freezes and kernel panics.
40 If the screen just sits in a weird color inverted, corrupted looking state,
41 it's probably nothing wrong with the computer, but a problem
42 with the fai server. If you can do this from a virtual terminal,
43 it will print out more info (I know from running it on a vm).
53 ssh root@
$host bash
-s < $
(readlink
-f "$BASH_SOURCE")
58 if grep -q ID
=ubuntu
/etc
/os-release
; then
59 # add universe, pxe-kexec is there
60 sed -ri '/^\s*deb/{/universe/!s/$/ universe/}' /etc
/apt
/sources.list
62 if ! type -p pxe-kexec
>/dev
/null
2>&1; then
64 apt-get
install -y debconf
65 debconf-set-selections
<<EOF
66 kexec-tools kexec-tools/load_kexec boolean false
68 apt-get
install -y pxe-kexec
70 # running this piped to bash on belenos, the apt-get goes
71 # into the background while it's still installing, and pxe-kexec
72 # just exits right away. sleep calls are strangely ignored.
73 # I don't know whats going on, but just running the same
74 # command again once it finishes works, and this is only
75 # rarely used and done manually anyways, so whatever.
76 pxe-kexec
-n --ignore-whitelist -l fai-generated faiserver