Greetings, On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Juergen Fiedler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Richard Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] >>>> Do the logs on the windows server show any attempts to connect? >>> >>> No trace of any attempt to connect. I think it may have to do with the >>> lack of /sbin/mount.cifs in the initrd. >>> Is live-helper normally supposed to put that in the initrd if I >>> specify cifs as the root filesystem, or do I have to add that to >>> LH_LINUX_PACKAGES or someting? >> >> I asked on irc for you and I am informed that: >> >> smbfs gets installed by lh_chroot_hacks if LH_BINARY_IMAGES=net >> >> Below is an exert from lh_chroot_hacks that confirms that information: >> >> case "${LH_BINARY_IMAGES}" in >> net) >> if [ ! -f chroot/usr/bin/smbmount ] >> then >> Apt install smbfs >> fi >> >> So it should be in there. Are you able to setup samba and test with it? > > I set up a Samba server on a Linux machine and shared the bootimage/ > from there. Again, I can browse through it with smbclient, but booting > through PXE using the share as the nfsroot yields the same result. > Most notably, the Samba server's log does not show any attempt to > connect during the PXE boot, while the connection through smbclient > was logged in great detail. > > I noticed that smbfs gets installed in the chroot, but doesn't > mount.cifs still doesn't end up in the initrd image. > How is the system going to boot the root fs if it has (while still > running from the initrd) no way to access CIFS shares? I think this is > where my big disconnect is. >
I am not sure so someone else will have to comment on that. Perhaps if you dropped in to busy box shell and snooped around. I got this tip from panthera about how to do this: busy box prompt sure, you can do append 'break=live-bottom' and it will 'fail' before live-bottom so that you can have a look and see yourself Maybe that will offer some information. > At this point, I would even go for NFS boot, but unfortunately, the > necessity to run the PXE server from a Vista machine is not negotiable > (i.e., not my choice at all) and nfsmount doesn't seem to play well > with Cygwin's NFS server. Could you test your setup with nfs, just to make sure all is working with nfs. > > > Thank you, > ~Juergen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
