On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Edward Grace wrote: > Dear all, > > I have had the most horrific difficulties trying to get an nforce2 motherboard > with built in LAN to network boot. While I have the PXE bootloader working > fine, I am having a nightmare trying to get the root directory mounted over > NFS. > > I have compiled the kernel appropriately (2.4.20, and have tried both stock > kernel and RedHat varient), it loads up pulls in the ramdisk then (naturally) > falls over...
"falls over..." What does that mean ? We'd be glad to help you diagnose your nfs root mounting problems, but we need a bit more to go on. First, try using the standard LTSP supplied kernel. Let's see what kind of problems you have. If there are errors, tell us what they say. Also, look in /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure for clues. Run: showmount -e to see if the directory you are trying to mount is actually exported, and pay close attention to the IP addresses that are allowed to mount, to make sure your client is in that range. Make sure your workstation is listed either in the /etc/hosts file, or is setup properly in dns, with the reverse mapping setup properly. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What I want to try and do is to get the network card up and running using the > ramdisk, then see if I can pivot_root. I have successfully tested the driver > (nvnet.o) which I compiled for this kernel. > > Since this projects main call seems to be network booting, could any of you > offer me some advice as to how to proceed. I assume you have seen every > possible way of getting something to boot over the network. > > I'd really appriciate the help, this is starting to drive me mad, > > -ed > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
