Automatic imaging going single user mode
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I've been trying to configure some clients to automatically boot and start imaging directly. I've gone through the dcs command line, and ended up with this command line:
/opt/drbl/sbin/drbl-ocs -b -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -x -j2 -p reboot -l en_US.UTF-8 startdisk restore 2010-11-12-03-img sda
This seems to work (I get a menu entry on boot), but the clients then go to single user mode, and seem to wait for something. I've traced this down to the pxelinux.cfg/default file specifying single user mode, but when I remove that it does not function as I expect. It then just goes to a log in prompt, and doesn't start the imaging process.
This is the line I'm referring to:
append initrd=initrd-pxe.img devfs=nomount drblthincli=off selinux=0 text 1 clientdir=node_root ocs_opt="-l en_US.UTF-8 -g auto -e1 auto -e2 -r -clone-hidden-data -p reboot restoredisk 2010-11-12-03-img sda"
Is there something else I need to do here? I've been unable to find any sort of documentation describing this process, so I can't tell if single user mode is normal or not. Any pointers in the right direction would be great.
It get's weirder: If I manually log in at that point and run:
/etc/init.d/firstboot
I get a message saying 'We will be in runlevel 1, skip firstboot!'
If I then manually run 'ocs-run -c', the imaging process starts perfectly.
Somehow, the initial commands aren't being executed here, and I'm not even sure where that is supposed to occur.
This seems to be an issue with Debian unstable. I dropped back to Debian lenny, and everything started working perfectly.