On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:08:21PM -0700, David Wright wrote: | | I have a 6-machine computational cluster running diskless under Debian. | We are using a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.17. To get this to work, you | MUST compile your own kernel. The stock Debian kernels don't fufill the | requirements for diskless booting. I'm afraid I won't be able to recall | them all the requirements off the top of my head, but here are a few: | * NFS support compiled in, not a module | * driver for your NIC compiled in, not a module | * NFS as RootFS support enabled
I've got these. | * CRAMFS support compiled in, not a module Isn't this only necessary for an initrd? | * RAM disk support compiled in, not a module I have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM enabled. (I think this is the ramdisk option you're referring to) | Finally, when you make-kpkg be sure to include the --initrd option. I didn't make anything a module, it's all built in or non-existant. That way I don't need to deal with initrds or modules for anything. | That's all I can think of at the moment. Does it work now? No. The 'rdev' modification didn't help either. The exact error messages I get on the client are : ~~~~~~~ Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.1 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: RPC call returned eror 101 Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.1.1 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 portmap: RPC call returned error 101 Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 mount: RPC call returned error 101 Root-NFS: Server returned error -101 while mounting /tftpboot/kiosk0 VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFA, trying floppy. ~~~~~~~ The server is 192.168.1.1. It has portmap, nfsd, and mountd running. It has ALL:ALL in /etc/hosts.allow. The path /tftpboot/kiosk0 exists and contains a chrooted manual install of woody. The server has no messages in it's log. I can mount that directory via nfs from another workstation (that has a disk). If I boot the potato installer on that workstation, I can ping the server. Thanks for your suggestions. -D -- "640K ought to be enough for anybody" -Bill Gates, 1981 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]