Hi everyone, It turns out that the security context while copying the NFS boot files wasn't preserved. Copying the entire file again with the "preserve" command now allows us to boot off the NFS without the login error.
Thanks for helping anyways, Sarfraz Qureshi, IIT Indore On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:57 PM, David MacMahon <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, Sarfraz, > > What do you mean by "treated as invalid"? Do you get any error message(s) > when you try to login as root or does it just return you to the login > prompt? > > Since it's not asking for a password when logging in as root, I suspect > that the /etc/password and /etc/shadow files are correct and some other > problem is preventing login (e.g. invalid shell). Entering any user name > other than "root" at the login prompt (e.g. "roach0244xx") will lead to the > prompt for a password, but can you actually login using other usernames? > > Did you see any error messages scroll by during the boot sequence? > > Dave > > On Mar 30, 2013, at 5:00 AM, Sarfraz Qureshi wrote: > > > We are trying to boot the ROACH2 board through NFS. As we interrupt the > default boot and issue the command for NFS boot (run netboot), the booting > starts. Once the booting is over, we could see the login prompt but the > username "root" is treated as invalid. However, trying the username: > "roach0244xx" takes on to the password entry; > > Can anyone suggest what could have gone wrong? We are using minicom to > connect the roach2 board. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Sarfraz Qureshi, > > IIT Indore > > > > > >
