+# This file is part of Ian Kelling's automated-distro-installer
+# Copyright (C) 2024 Ian Kelling
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
PXE install w multi-boot, btrfs & Libreboot support
Some things are specific to my home network, and uses files with secrets
use one called 51-multi-boot, which you can see example of in
fai/config/class/50-host-classes.
-
-
Before doing a fai install, you will need to populate /q/root/luks and
/q/root/shadow, see their references. You might also want to copy
existing /etc/ssh/*host* to
-/p/c/machine_specific/HOST/filesystem/etc/ssh.
+/p/c/machine_specific/HOST/filesystem/etc/ssh
host-* luks keyfiles generated like:
-head -c 2048 /dev/urandom | od | s dd of=/q/root/luks/host-demohost
+h=demohost; head -c 2048 /dev/urandom | od | se dd of=/q/root/luks/host-$h
Configuration of which luks key to use is in
fai/config/hooks/partition.DEFAULT
and which shadow file / luks file(s) to copy into the new machine depends
on fai-redep arguments.
+Also, setup dns in /p/c/host-info and firewall redirects in wrt-setup-local.
+
+After install, btrbk to setup data, and then distro-begin && distro end.
+See notes in distro-begin for other configuration.
+
# Scripts (meant to be used directly):
fai-redep # Deploy fai configuration to host "faiserver"
faiserver-uninstall # uninstall fai-server
faiserver-setup # install fai-server on the current machine
-myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful for doing pxe-kexec
+myfai-chboot # setup fai tftp and nfs. useful for doing pxe-kexec or booting from a fai-cd.
pxe-server # disable/enable pxe dhcp, tfp, and nfs. calls myfai-chboot
wrt-setup # setup my router in general: dhcp, dns, etc.
fresize # resize swap or boot partitions in a host
-# Replacing a raid 10 disk
+# NAT/forward/vpn tftp
+
+I tried to get this working, but failed.
+
+tftp server in theory can be forwarded over a vpn, eg on a wireguard tunnel.
+
+However, I found that when actually pxe booting, it wouldn't work, only
+the 1st filename would be requested, eg, in the logs:
+
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021350]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename pxelinux.0
+
+
+To get that far, nating tftp requires some special attention in iptables, like so:
+
+https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/579508/iptables-rules-to-forward-tftp-via-nat
+iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p udp --dport 69 -s 209.51.188.0/24 -j CT --helper tftp
+modprobe nf_nat_tftp
+
+to test tftp from a client machine:
+
+tftp SERVER_IP -c get pxelinux.0
+rm -fv pxelinux.0
+
+
+# Common problems
+
+## kernel mismatch very early error, no remote logs:
+
+ERROR: the running kernel does not match the kernel modules inside the nfsroot.
+ERROR: Kernel modules directory /lib/modules/5.10.0-8-amd not available. Only found /lib/modules/5.10.0-15-amd64
+
+solution: if running from fai-cd, recreate autodiscover cd as noted above in setup.
+
+## Weird package dependency errors
+
+for example: in fai.log, within instsoft.DEBIAN
+```
+The following packages have unmet dependencies:
+ libc6 : Breaks: locales (< 2.36) but 2.35-0ubuntu3.7+11.0trisquel1 is to be installed
+```
+
+In this case, it was because the basefile was missing, and so instead
+fai decided to use the wrong basefile.
+
+for example: in fai.log, within instsoft.DEBIAN
+
+```
+ftar: No matching class found in /var/lib/fai/config/basefiles//
+ftar: extracting /var/tmp/base.tar.zst to /target/
+```
+
+# What good logs look like:
+
+logging nfs traffic from server
+
+s rpcdebug -m nfsd -s all
+
+
+normal nfs mount & umount logs look like:
+
+journalctl -ef | gr nfs
+
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd rpc.mountd[2025725]: authenticated mount request from 10.32.2.1:865 for /srv/fai/nfsroot (/srv/fai/nfsroot)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: exp_rootfh(/srv/fai/nfsroot [00000000e8c53e54] *:dm-0/5521225)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: fh_compose(exp 00:1b/5521225 fai/nfsroot, ino=5521225)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: FSINFO(3) 28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: fh_verify(28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: PATHCONF(3) 28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: fh_verify(28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: GETATTR(3) 28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: fh_verify(28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: FSINFO(3) 28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: fh_verify(28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000)
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: GETATTR(3) 28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000
+Jun 20 22:15:36 kd kernel: nfsd: fh_verify(28: 00070001 00543f49 00000000 d185f7b0 58d1a3c6 00000000)
+Jun 20 22:15:45 kd rpc.mountd[2025725]: authenticated unmount request from 10.32.2.1:986 for /srv/fai/nfsroot (/srv/fai/nfsroot)
+
+normal tftpd logs from:
+
+after setting -vv in TFTP_OPTIONS in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa
+
+journalctl -u tftpd-hpa
+
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021350]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename pxelinux.0
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021351]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename ldlinux.c32
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021352]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename pxelinux.cfg/a913a477-fca6-234d-a928-6bb011decd05
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021352]: sending NAK (1, File not found) to 10.2.0.12
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021353]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename pxelinux.cfg/01-52-54-00-9c-ef-ad
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021353]: sending NAK (1, File not found) to 10.2.0.12
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021354]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename pxelinux.cfg/0A02000C
+Jun 20 23:51:02 kd in.tftpd[4021355]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename vmlinuz-5.10.0-15-amd64
+Jun 20 23:51:03 kd in.tftpd[4021356]: RRQ from 10.2.0.12 filename initrd.img-5.10.0-15-amd64
-# i expect better results with newer kernel and btrfs progs than the default stretch
-fai-server buster
+
+
+# Replacing a raid 10 disk
pxe-server -S HOST fai
# Expected output in fai logs
-For flidas, when installing systemd, this error happens, and it's
+
+## On focal:
+
+fai.log:updatebase.UBUNTU FAILED with exit code 1.
+the real error is dpkg-reconfigure locales, seems to be related
+to a workaround for < 20.04, relevant comment:
+# in case the locales are already included inside the base file (Ubuntu)
+in config/hooks/instsoft.DEBIAN
+
+
+## For flidas,
+
+when installing systemd, this error happens, and it's
a superflous upstream bug based on reading the post install script:
addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Operation failed: No such file or directory
+## On nabia/newer,
+
+python is removed, now its python3,
+and its easier to just let the package get removed than
+do host class package config.
+fai.log:WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list: python python-minimal
+
+Similar to python, linux-image-amd64 is the debian package name
+for the kernel, linux-image-generic is for ubuntu, but the
+DEBIAN class is defined on ubuntu and its easier to just let
+the package get removed with this warning:
+fai.log:WARNING: These unknown packages are removed from the installation list: linux-image-amd64
+Also, cryptsetup-initramfs is new to buster/nabia, it gets removed
+on earlier versions.
+
+## parted error
+fai.log:Error: /dev/vda: unrecognised disk label
+This is from parted -m $d unit MiB print.
+It happens when there are no partitions yet.
+
+
+######## notes on creating a lan with just 2 computers ########
+
+
+## below assumes eth0 is the ethernet device used to connect to the target computer.
+
+
+# this is not strictly needed. I had my connection die at some point,
+# and I suspected this might help.
+# based on
+# https://support.qacafe.com/knowledge-base/how-do-i-prevent-network-manager-from-controlling-an-interface/
+cat > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-fai-tmp.conf <<'EOF'
+[main]
+plugins=keyfile
+
+[keyfile]
+unmanaged-devices=interface-name:eth0
+EOF
+ser restart NetworkManager
+
-# linode notes
+cat >> /etc/network/interfaces <<'EOF'
+iface eth0 inet static
+address 10.0.44.1/24
+EOF
+
+ifup eth0
+
+# note turn off fsf vpn, so route to coresite is the normal route.
+echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
+m s iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $(ip -4 route get 8.8.8.8 | sed -nr 's,^.* dev\s+(\S+).*,\1,p') -j MASQUERADE
+
+
+change /p/c/machine_specific/vps/bind-initial/db.b8.nz
+faiserver 10.0.44.1
+TARGET_HOSTNAME 10.0.44.2
+
+apt install isc-dhcp-server
+
+cat >> /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server <<'EOF'
+INTERFACESv4="eth0"
+EOF
+
+edit ./dhcpd.conf to change mac address and target host name.
+
+s cp /b/fai/dhcpd.conf /etc/dhcp/
+ser restart isc-dhcp-server
+
+edit /a/bin/fai/fai/config/class/51-multi-boot
+
+pxe-server -d TARGET fai
+
+Then do a pxe boot on the target host
+
+
+
+##### linode notes ######
* create 2 disks, installer (3000 mb, raw), boot (remaining, raw)
* create 2 profiles w direct boot, no helpers:
settings.
-# ubuntu notes
+
+###### ubuntu notes ######
For someone who really needed ubuntu on host tp, otherwise they would
end up on a non-gnu os, and I didn't want to figure out how to get all
umount sys
reboot
+# for switching the boot to root2
+zboot
+# for switching back, efibootmgr, if there is a problem with the root filesystem detection,
+# boot into the debian bootstrap distro, run partition.DEFAULT using comments for mktab arg.
+# then manually run iboot and then reboot.
+
+
# pine rock64 notes
# the only useful image is ubuntu 18.04 ayafun or something.
# using emmc usb:
s apt dist-upgrade
+### How to merge upstream fai-config
+
+git checkout upstream
+cd path-to-fai-config
+git pull --stat
+# the following needs modification if there was deletions or renames
+rsync --exclude /.git -rlpgoDcvi . /b/fai/fai/config/
+cd /b/fai/fai/config/
+# where XXXXX is the git commit hash
+# note, several files which just had trailing space changes will get ignored.
+git commit -am "update upstream to XXXXX"
+git checkout master
+git merge upstream
+# fix conflicts
+git commit
+
+
# TODO
Change arch to archlike and to support arch and parabola
iankelling.org / git / automated-distro-installer / blobdiff