Which FAI document did you read on this? I found the old documentation rather confusing but the revised one is better. See this http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/fai-guide/. That said, have you build your mirror or are you using the one from debian? I found building my own mirror before running fai-setup worked best. "I also hope DNS, DHCP etc are all setup correctly and the necessary files in /etc/fai are also fine". A detail break down of this configs will be helpful. Your error should be resolved if your FAI parameters and mirror is fine.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send linux-fai mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-fai > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of linux-fai digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. problem mounting nfs (Martin Schulte) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:58:59 +0100 > From: Martin Schulte <[email protected]> > Subject: problem mounting nfs > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed > > Hi, > I'm trying to use fai for my first time. It's also the first time I get in > contact with nfs and these things. So maybe the following questions a very > simple... > I use an debian etch server with DHCP an DNS. > > > 1. > I setup fai following the guide from the website. There is an existing dhcp > server an I add > > use-host-decl-names on;# <==================== > server-name faiserver;# <==================== > next-server faiserver;# <==================== > filename "fai/pxelinux.0";# <==================== > > > to the dhcp.conf an resarted dhcp. > There are also hosts like these: > > host static00 { > hardware ethernet 00:90:F5:67:64:3F; > fixed-address static00; > } > > > 2. > I also complement the inetd.conf, now there is this line inside: > > tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s > /srv/tftp/ > > after this: /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart > > > 3. > In the fai.conf i complement > > LOGUSER=fai > > an in mke-fai-nfsroot.conf > > FAI_ROOTPW='my password' (with md5) > > The rest i leave untouched, especially there is this entry > FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP="etch http://ftp.debian.org/debian"; > > > 4. > The /etc/exports contains these entries > > /srv/fai/config 10.0.2.2/255.255.254.0(async,ro,no_subtree_check) > /srv/fai/nfsroot > 10.0.2.2/255.255.254.0(async,ro,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) > > > > 5. > The 50-host-classes now looks like these > > case $HOSTNAME in > static*) > echo "FAIBASE DEMO FAISERVER" ;; > demohost) > echo "FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO" ;; > gnomehost) > echo "FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO XORG GNOME";; > atom*) > echo "FAIBASE DHCPC DEMO" ;; > *) > echo "FAIBASE DHCPC" ;; > esac > > (ifclass I386 || ifclass AMD64) && echo GRUB > exit 0 > > > ----------- > The problem > ----------- > > When booting the client, after some time it stops by printing: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block (2,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block > (2,0) > > So, something went wrong while mounting the nfs directory, but i do not > know, how to handle this error. > > > > Bye, martin > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-fai mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-fai > > > End of linux-fai Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1 > **************************************** >
