On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote:
> On Saturday 05 October 2002 05:40, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > 2 issues > > > > 1 issue - your mailer borks the "Reply To:" :) > > > > > fist all my terminals are using the eepro100 ic with pxe. how do I set > > > the server up to boot the terminals using these nics with pxe? > > > > Sorry. Several people have asked about PXE. I know Erwan did some PXE > > work for the clustering project, and I read the docs, but I don't have PXE > > capable hardware to implement/test. Patches welcome :) > > > > > second is when booting the terminals (using a boot flopy) it fails at > > > mounting the root filesystem. I have 5 partitions /, /usr, /var, /home, > > > /tmp > > > > > > my exports lists the > > > > > > / (ro,all_squash) > > > /home 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw, root_squash) > > > > > > do i need to modify my exports to reflect all system partitions? > > > am i overlooking a step to give the terminals permission to mount the > > > shared resources? > > > > That should be OK as you list. I'm assuming the subnet is correct for you > > network. Any messages at the client or server end? Is clusternfs running > > on the server? You shouldn't have to mount all the partitions > > specifically, it's only done for /home for rw access. > > > > Stew Benedict > in the control center under services it shows that clusternfs is running > (started at boot) > > the dmesg printed to screen on a terminal as booting ends with these errors: > > SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable > Mounting root filesystem 192.168.1.255:/ at /sysroot > If this appears to hang, check that the server of 192.168.1.255:/ is able to > reverse map my IP address 192.168.1.12 to obtain my hostname > client_192_168_1_12 > mount: nfsmount filed: Bad file number > nfs: mount program didn't pass remote address! > mount: mounting 192.168.1.255:/ on sysroot failed: Invalid argument > sucessfully obtained IP address via wired link [eth0] > FATAL ERROR: failed to mount root filesystem > ~reboot~ > > so it sounds like the terminal is not getting told whear to acess its > /sysroot on the server, the ip address of the server, and is not being given > permission to mount it. > > So where do I go to begin to make this work? > Your server is at 192.168.1.255? Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc
