Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-13 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > I try to understand one thing: > - When a fai client boots up, he try to mount the nfsroot in read only. all > the data is written somewhere else using tmpfs. Is that right ? > It is unionfs, but I guess this uses tmpfs underneath. > If this is true, it may be a problem with "tmpfs" wic

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-12 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] Maybe for you too http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444079 applies - please try to add nfs-common to the NFSROOT file (as shown in the patch attached to the bug report). Best, Michael nfs-common already is in nfs root. and it doesn't work..

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] Maybe for you too http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444079 applies - please try to add nfs-common to the NFSROOT file (as shown in the patch attached to the bug report). Best, Michael pgpAazMBXIm56.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > > Nov 9 10:00:39 procyon mountd[9249]: authenticated mount request from > testfai.labri.fr:1014 for /soft/fai/nfsroot (/soft/fai/nfsroot) > Nov 9 10:00:39 mountd[9249]: refused unmount request from for

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] -- Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.548824] nfsd: last server has exited Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.548827] nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.549856] RPC: failed to con

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : There are parts that need to be written on every boot-up, just temporary things. Prior to live-initramfs this was solved by mounting parts of the file system as tmpfs. Now live-initramfs takes care of everything. You definitely need to debug the mount problem, possi

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > > -- > Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.548824] nfsd: last server has exited > Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.548827] nfsd: unexporting all > filesystems > Nov 9 09:46:32 procyon kernel: [ 1484.549856] RPC: failed to contact local > rpcbind s

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-09 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Sjors Robroek a écrit : Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:51:15 +0100, Castang Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > (the "live-initramfs package is installed on the server) You need live-initramfs only inside the nfsroot, not on the server itself. Also, before you s

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Sjors Robroek
Thomas Lange wrote: On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:51:15 +0100, Castang Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > (the "live-initramfs package is installed on the server) You need live-initramfs only inside the nfsroot, not on the server itself. Also, before you start pulling out your hair

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:51:15 +0100, Castang Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > (the "live-initramfs package is installed on the server) You need live-initramfs only inside the nfsroot, not on the server itself. -- regards Thomas

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] There is no package named "fai-kernels" on ubuntu 7.10 I use "vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic" and "initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic" to boot. So this initrd image must not include "live tools" Wich kernel and ramfs must be used ? fai-kernels is deprecated,

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Michael Tautschnig a écrit : [...] There is no package named "fai-kernels" on ubuntu 7.10 I use "vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic" and "initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic" to boot. So this initrd image must not include "live tools" Wich kernel and ramfs must be used ? fai-kernels is deprecated,

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > There is no package named "fai-kernels" on ubuntu 7.10 > I use "vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic" and "initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic" to > boot. > So this initrd image must not include "live tools" > > Wich kernel and ramfs must be used ? > fai-kernels is deprecated, on Debian we use standard ker

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
[...] There are parts that need to be written on every boot-up, just temporary things. Prior to live-initramfs this was solved by mounting parts of the file system as tmpfs. Now live-initramfs takes care of everything. You definitely need to debug the mount problem, possibly by checking the logs

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Thomas Lange a écrit : PLEASE, NO HTML MAILS! Sorry ! I will not do this "noob error" again. To keep this thread clear, here there is the text version of the mail (no HTML inside :)) //** Hello

Re: Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] > I am trying to setup FAI with Ubuntu 7.10. > Following the documentation, I got an FAI server running (but buggy) > and a client booting from PXE. > > *) The first thing I don't understand is why the NFSROOT is located in > /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir after doing "fai-setup" > Acc

Ubuntu 7.10 - "live/filesystem.dir" and "read only filesystem"

2007-11-08 Diskussionsfäden Castang Jerome
Hello, I am trying to setup FAI with Ubuntu 7.10. Following the documentation, I got an FAI server running (but buggy) and a client booting from PXE. *) The first thing I don't understand is why the NFSROOT is located in /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir after doing "fai-setup" According t