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has caused the Debian Bug report #832674,
regarding --net-root-server and --net-root-path have no effect
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Package: live-build
Version: 3.0.5-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I built a netboot image with the following configuration (following the
manual at
http://live.debian.net/manual/stable/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#235
):
lb config -b netboot --net-root-path "/srv/netboot"
--net-root-server "<OUR_NFS_SERVER_IP>"
We already have a TFTP/NFS server set up, and our clients are able to boot
live images from it. However, they could not boot the image I built with
live-build, failing when trying to access the file system. When we compared
the pxelinux append lines (in live.cfg) with those from the working images,
we found that the netboot and nfsroot options were missing. Adding
"netboot=nfs nfsroot=<OUR_NFS_SERVER_IP>:/srv/netboot" fixed the issue.
A search through the live-build scripts revealed that the argument to
--net-root-path is put into variable LB_NET_ROOT_PATH and the argument to
--net-root-server is put into LB_NET_ROOT_SERVER. Neither of these makes it
into LB_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE, which is used in
/usr/lib/live/build/binary_syslinux to create the append line in live.cfg.
Instead, LB_BOOTAPPEND_LIVE contains the defaults as set in
/usr/share/live/build/functions/defaults.sh and thus the options in live.cfg
are
append boot=live config quiet splash
I am fairly new to booting live images over the network, so perhaps the NFS
server and path information is supposed to be part of the image some other
way. I did use grep to search for occurrences of our NFS server IP address
in the image files but found nothing. So, it would appear that the options
--net-root-server and --net-root-path have no effect. (Other than the
basename of --net-root-path being used to name the root directory of the
file system in /usr/lib/live/build/binary_netboot.)
Hope this information is useful and that the issue can be resolved.
Sigrid
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages live-build depends on:
ii debootstrap 1.0.48+deb7u1
Versions of packages live-build recommends:
ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-0.1
ii gnu-fdisk 1.2.4-3.1
ii live-boot-doc 3.0.1-1
ii live-config-doc 3.0.23-1
ii live-manual-html [live-manual] 1:3.0.2-1
Versions of packages live-build suggests:
pn debian-keyring <none>
ii dosfstools 3.0.13-1
ii fakeroot 1.18.4-2
pn git <none>
ii gpgv 1.4.12-7+deb7u2
pn loadlin <none>
pn memtest86+ | memtest86 <none>
pn mtools <none>
pn parted <none>
pn squashfs-tools | mtd-tools <none>
ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1+nmu1
pn syslinux | grub <none>
pn uuid-runtime <none>
pn win32-loader <none>
pn xorriso <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 20190301-lts1-5+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package open-infrastructure-system-tools has just been removed from the
Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1137258
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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