Re: problem setting NFSROOT

2008-10-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange 
 On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:57:46 +0200, Huisman G [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

 initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64. The NFS mount of the nfsroot fails
 because the ROOTSERVER (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is always set to
 the address of our DHCP server, which is not the same as the NFS server.
The option server-name in dhcpd.conf will set the rootserver variable for the 
kernel. 


 We use FAI for installing our debian servers (10) and workstations 
(200).
 The setup for debian etch is working fine as was the case for sarge.
Good. Why didn't I get the FAI questionnaire yet from you ;-) You know
I'm alsways very interested in this feedback from the FAI
users. Please have a look at: 
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire

-- 
regards Thomas

Re: problem setting NFSROOT

2008-10-24 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange 
 On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:57:46 +0200, Huisman G [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

 We used to pass  NFSROOT=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/path/to/nfsroot
 from the hex-ip-adress file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
Yep, that should also work, but maybe this data gets overwritten by
the DHCP information. 

 because the ROOTSERVER (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is always set to
 the address of our DHCP server, which is not the same as the NFS server.
next-server in dhcpd.conf sets this variable (really, I just tries it
in my environment). But AFAIK this is also the address of the TFTP
server, from which your install clients tries to download the
pxelinux.0 file, so this is not really what you want.

Mmm, this may be a bug in ipconfig. Ask the klibc-utils
maintainer or maybe the live-initramfs people if they have a
workaround or patch for this.

-- 
regards Thomas