Versions:
fai 4.1
dracut ? (where can I find this out?)
I think I remember the problem now:
Last year, when I set up the new wheezy-FAI-server, I first set
"NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot" in nfsroot.conf (as in the
"make_fai_nfs_root.conf" file in my old fai 3.4.7 server) .
However, tftp/dracut then tried to mount the nfsroot from the
dhcp-server :-( (not on the same machine...*)
I just tried a test installation with NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot and
indeed the installation stops with
"mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting
130.92.143.225:/srv/fai/nfsroot"
Indeed, 130.92.143.225 is the dhcp-server machine, and in the syslog of
this machine I find
Apr 25 13:10:57 kuppacific rpc.mountd[1658]: refused mount request from
kuphalmahera.unibe.ch for /srv/fai/nfsroot (/): no export entry
(kuphalmahera.unibe.ch is the host to install)
If I put "NFSROOT=phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot" it worked until ~one month
ago, but now I had to put
"NFSROOT=nfs:phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot" into nfsroot.conf to get it to
work again.
PS: If I'm right, fai-chboot just takes the NFSROOT variable from
nfsroot.conf to create the nfsroot kernel command line parameter entry
(I invoke it with /usr/sbin/fai-chboot -IFv -u
nfs://phkup26/srv/fai/config <hostname>)
Regards
René
* Since years I have a dhcp-server for our network on a special machine.
In the dhcpd.conf I just declared a special "group" for the FAI-hosts:
-------
group {
server-name "kuppacific.unibe.ch";
next-server phkup26;
use-host-decl-names on;
filename "fai/pxelinux.0";
...
This worked for years with the old FAI-server
On 04/25/2014 10:57 AM, Thomas Lange wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:13:35 +0200, René Bleisch <accou...@climate.unibe.ch>
said:
> It seems that now "nfs" is needed at the begin of the NFSROOT entry in
nfsroot.conf, to get dracut to recognize the fai-server
> NFSROOT=nfs:phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot (instead of
NFSROOT=phkup26:/srv/fai/nfsroot )
Which FAI and dracut version are you using?
I have this in my nfsroot.conf:
NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot
I'm sure, I never had a host name in this line.
IIRC NFSROOT should not be used for specifying the nfsroot kernel
command line parameter. man dracut.cmdline says: ".. root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot= is deprecated". Now you should use root=.
I have root=123.45.67.8:/srv/fai/nfsroot in my pxelinux.cfg files.
> Was there a change in fai-chboot? (Did former versions eventually add the
"nfs:" automatically to the nfsroot when creating the tftp-file?)
Yes, there was a change in FAI 4.1.
