On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, BARRY,TIM (HP-FtCollins,ex1) wrote:
> Walter, > > I wonder if modules.conf triggering a look for eth1..eth4 to > be aliased to a driver. That is an entry like: > > alias eth1 eepro100 > alias eth2 eepro100 it would seem that eth0 is not being configured.. the server has not such aliases by the way.... should I be creating /etc/modules.conf in the bootfloppy...? configuration fails since it can't seem to find eth0 interface.... it would seem that kernel nfs root mount phase differs from the mount of of the config space...or at least this is the way it looks since mount on the server never shows that it is mounting /usr/local/share/fai.... the weird thing is that if I use a dhcp approach it does work.... presumably there is some key piece of info that the dhcp server gave to the kernel that my static config is missing? Unfortunately I can not use dhcp in the general network environment ...at least not one I can control...I only got it to work by connecting the client to the 2nd nic...via an intellinet switch Q: any pointers on the method of setting up private subnets like 192.168. in particular so that clients can connect to the outside world...presumably I need ipmasq ..in any case this is a different issue. > ... > > You likely know this, but may need to make sure that > any key ether, scsi, etc drivers are best built into the > vmlinuz that you use to boot. I've found that > without doing this, my mileage with getting nfs root to > work has not been successful. Just my experience. thanks..I'll try this > > What does ethereal at the server show? Is it getting > everything on the net it expects wrt portmaps, rpc > calls, etc? never used this program.... until you mentioned it I wasn't aware of it :-( > > You may also want to try the following. ifdown all the > interfaces except the one that you are trafficing the > boot on. I've seen that sometimes even after a successful > pxe/tftp boot, that nfs seems to get confused and relies > on one link or the other--and often--not the one you expect. > > Just some thoughts. > > Best, > Tim >
