Comments on: diskless booting with PXE and NFS http://www.pixelchaos.net/2009/02/15/diskless-booting-with-pxe-and-nfs/ random bits for your terminal Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:37:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: at0m http://www.pixelchaos.net/2009/02/15/diskless-booting-with-pxe-and-nfs/comment-page-1/#comment-2733 at0m Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:47:18 +0000 http://www.pixelchaos.net/?p=89#comment-2733 **Correction:** After mkinitramfs and the nfs copy, edit the local /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change “BOOT=nfs” back to “BOOT=local”. That's better :) **Correction:** After mkinitramfs and the nfs copy, edit the local /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change “BOOT=nfs” back to “BOOT=local”.

That’s better :)

]]> By: at0m http://www.pixelchaos.net/2009/02/15/diskless-booting-with-pxe-and-nfs/comment-page-1/#comment-2580 at0m Sat, 16 May 2009 06:25:01 +0000 http://www.pixelchaos.net/?p=89#comment-2580 Hoi, Suggestion: After mkinitramfs and the nfs copy, edit the local /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change "BOOT=local" back to "BOOT=nfs". Reason: I had to try a couple of times, and wanted to keep local hd copy for in case, and kernel tried to find rootFS over nfs - which didn't work because the server wasn't setup properly yet. To fix that, I had to boot each client that was broken (a couple) from Debian Netinstall (smallest bootable ISO I could find), then chroot into /dev/hda1 and mkinitramfs again after the edit from the suggestion. So to avoid that, do the edit beforehand, like after nfs copy :) For the rest, this blogpost seems great, gave me much better insight in this whole process! Thanks, at0m. Hoi,

Suggestion: After mkinitramfs and the nfs copy, edit the local /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and change “BOOT=local” back to “BOOT=nfs”.

Reason: I had to try a couple of times, and wanted to keep local hd copy for in case, and kernel tried to find rootFS over nfs – which didn’t work because the server wasn’t setup properly yet. To fix that, I had to boot each client that was broken (a couple) from Debian Netinstall (smallest bootable ISO I could find), then chroot into /dev/hda1 and mkinitramfs again after the edit from the suggestion. So to avoid that, do the edit beforehand, like after nfs copy :)

For the rest, this blogpost seems great, gave me much better insight in this whole process!

Thanks,
at0m.

]]> By: tomek http://www.pixelchaos.net/2009/02/15/diskless-booting-with-pxe-and-nfs/comment-page-1/#comment-2158 tomek Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:46:09 +0000 http://www.pixelchaos.net/?p=89#comment-2158 Sorry, it was just a typo in initramfs.conf ("nsf" instead of "nfs") Having corrected the typo, net-boot works perfectly. Thanks a lot again for the how-to! Sorry, it was just a typo in initramfs.conf (“nsf” instead of “nfs”)
Having corrected the typo, net-boot works perfectly.

Thanks a lot again for the how-to!

]]> By: tomek http://www.pixelchaos.net/2009/02/15/diskless-booting-with-pxe-and-nfs/comment-page-1/#comment-2157 tomek Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:12:16 +0000 http://www.pixelchaos.net/?p=89#comment-2157 Thanks a lot for this great how-to! I have just a problem ... I have performed the steps from the how-to, but the startup does not work I get the folloing messages from boot: ... Begin: Mounting root file system ... /init: .: line 171 can't open /scripts/nsf ... Kernel panic - no syncing: Attempted to kill init If I use the same tftp- and dhcp-server and the same configuration of them, but just the the net-installation works perfectly - I have just exchanged the content of the file "default" (from debian-installer) against the file 01- from this how-to. So I suppose the only problem is incorrect generated "initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686_netboo" Thanks in advance for any ideas ... Thanks a lot for this great how-to!

I have just a problem …
I have performed the steps from the how-to, but the startup does not work
I get the folloing messages from boot:
…
Begin: Mounting root file system … /init: .: line 171 can’t open /scripts/nsf
… Kernel panic – no syncing: Attempted to kill init

If I use the same tftp- and dhcp-server and the same configuration of them, but just the the net-installation works perfectly – I have just exchanged the content of the file “default” (from debian-installer) against the file 01- from this how-to.
So I suppose the only problem is incorrect generated “initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686_netboo”

Thanks in advance for any ideas …

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