Hi and sorry about the delay, Banged my head against this a couple of times. Then moved aside the chroot, and rebuilt it from scratch (diskless-createbasetgz etc.), and everything works perfectly!
Now it's straightforward to boot NFS-root from a stock non-NFS-root Debian image. No more building custom kernels for a diskless cluster. And ttys seem to work (didn't under woody), so this can be used for various types of clients beyond Beowulf nodes, e.g. user workstations. I've put details on the Wiki: http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?NFSRootInitrd Zeen, Adam On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:27, Peter Cordes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 02:29:44PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a little initrd script which runs: > > > > ifup -a > > portmap > > mount -n -o ro -t nfs $NFS_SERVER:/path/to/dir /dir > > > > But when this runs, I just get: > > > > mount: RPC: Program not registered > > > > I used to get this a while ago, then put in the portmap call and it ran > > fine, then just in the last week or so it broke again. Have there been > > changes to sarge portmap and/or mount which might have broken this? > > Would it help to add entries to /etc/hosts.allow? > > Try running rpcinfo -p. It should show something like [snip] -Adam P. GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe! http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/The_Best_Stuff_In_The_World_Today_Cafe.ogg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
