On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 20:03 +0530, CyberOrg wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 7:53 PM, Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It was on the kernel command line in /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. > > After I changed that, it finds the tftp server. Then it is looking for > > network config files. Which it does not find. So it waits 60 secs and > > tries again. And again... > > It is looking for /srv/tftpboot/KIWI/config.default > > Instead of going through all the files that are not configured due to > original misconfiguration, let us start over. > > * Make sure you are using all the latest kiwi packages available > * disable firewall > * Mount i386 DVD5 media somewhere > * Get /etc/sysconfig/kiwi-ltsp right according to your setup > * run "kiwi-ltsp-setup -s" and let it configure everything for you > * boot client
I have done all this and things are better. I think the following were the problems: 1) some file in /srv/tftpboot that are needed only come from a package install. If they are deleted, you are sol. This makes cleaning up the /srv directory problematic in that there is no obvious way to remove generated files, leaving those only installed by a package alone. So I made an archive of this when the packages were freshly installed. 2) nbd must be restarted when the image it is to serve changes. If not, you get a Negotiation: prompt when the boot tries to mount the image. Perhaps the generation script should do this? Or perhaps something else is really the problem. After sorting these things out, things were better. The system boots promptly. There are still some odd complaints about read-only file system. But nothing that seems to keep the system from coming up. I tried to mount an nfs volume, but I get this error right away: mount: bad fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 10.1.5.1:/opt/rsoft etc... I can mount this from everywhere else. I have tried a share from a suse 10.0 and a 10.3 system. The response is so quick, I get the feeling it has not eve tried. nfs is listed in /proc/filesystems. Perhaps there is some additional RPM that I need to allow nfs mounting? > > Cheers > > -J -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
