oh, as previously noted, I should add my running system parameters: IBM HS20 eServer BladeCenter, with dual 3.06 GHz Intel Xeon(TM) CPUs, 2.5GM RAM and 40 GB 5400 RPM DMA/ATA-100 hard drive Debian linux-2.6.8.1 (I compiled this) FAI 2.8 tftp-hpa 0.40 NFS 0.99
also, I looked at the my syslog, and I see this: tftp: client does not accept options blade01 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from blade02:800 for /diskless_ro (/diskless_ro) maybe I should try a different tftp server? On 10, May, 2005, Dan B. Phung declared: > I've gotten past the previous NFS errors, and now have > FAI specific errors :) > > I see the boot of FAI going, it loads the network card, the hard drive > controller, and then it gets to runlevel 2 and stops. > > here's the output: > > Initializing random number generator....done. > Optimizing hardware... > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > FAI: installation aborted. > reboot with: faireboot > or after a logout > sh: no job control in this shell > > and that's it. faimond doesn't show anything. I previously > had an error about the file system being readonly, so I change > my export from: > > /diskless_ro 128.59.16.0/255.255.248.0(async,ro,no_root_squash) > to > /diskless_ro 128.59.16.0/255.255.248.0(async,rw,no_root_squash) > > and it got past that. Then I saw some mail thread by Yuri Adrián González > Robles and tried changning the pxelinux.cfg boot config line. currently > the file consists of: > > label fai-generated > kernel vmlinuz-install > append auto rw ip=dhcp devfs=nomount FAI_ACTION=install root=/dev/nfs > FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd > > I also chmod -R a+r /diskless_ro...should I try a+rw ? > > regards, > Dan > --