On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 08:08:04AM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Hi Ulrich.
> > > Hi Ulrich
> > >> > Then when I try to boot from nfs I get the following output:
> > >> >
> > >> > barebox: boot nfs://192.168.86.201/nfsboot/arm9/
> > >>
> > >> you already have the slash separating the host part of the URL and the
> > >> path part, but you missed the slash that is needed at the beginning of
> > >> the absolute path:
> > >>
> > >> boot nfs://192.168.86.201//nfsboot/arm9/
> > >>
> > >> (with a two slashes) should hopefully do the trick.
> > >
> > > Hmm, no luck:
> > > barebox:/ boot nfs://192.168.86.201//nfsboot/arm9/
> > > eth0: DHCP client bound to address 192.168.86.20
> > > T T T T T T T T T T T T T T could not open
> > > /.tftp_tmp_path/zImage-at91sam9263ekt
> > >
> > > barebox:/ boot nfs://192.168.86.201//nfsboot/arm9
> > > eth0: DHCP client bound to address 192.168.86.20
> > > T T T T T T T T T T T T T T could not open
> > > /.tftp_tmp_path/zImage-at91sam9263ekt
> > >
> > > I will try to add some debugging and see whats going on.
> >
> > Do you see anything of interest in the server's log?
>
>
> I got it working, using a slighly different approach.
>
> I now have:
>
> barebox: cat /env/init/automount
> #!/bin/sh
>
> mkdir -p /mnt/nfs
> automount -d /mnt/nfs 'ifup -a && mount -t nfs 192.168.86.201:/nfsboot/arm9
> /mnt/nfs'
>
> barebox: cat /env/boot/nfs
> #!/bin/sh
>
> nfsdir="/mnt/nfs"
>
> global.bootm.image="${nfsdir}/boot/zImage"
>
> nfsroot="192.168.86.201:/nfsboot/arm9"
>
> global.linux.bootargs.base="rw rootwait init=/usr/bin/system-init.sh"
> global.linux.bootargs.dyn.root="root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=${nfsroot},v3,tcp"
>
>
> Then I can nfsboot my kernel using "boot nfs"
>
> The solution has my NFS server IP IP hardcoded as the NFS server IP
> is not the same as the DHCP IP, so no way to find it automagically.
>
> In the linux kernel I also selected NFS + NFS boot to make it work.
>
> With the above I have something that do what I need - good!
>
> Thanks for the help/hints.
Nevertheless I would be interested why the original approach did not
work since that would be the preferred one.
Do you have bootloader spec enabled in barebox and do you also have a
bootloader spec config file on the root NFS?
Sascha
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