I sounds like the network boot wasn't sucessful at all. On the console of the
client, you should see it send out network requests and then load the netboot
kernel and run it. Did any of this happen?
Mike
On Monday 03 December 2001 10:48, Steve Muir wrote:
> Hi anyone,
>
> I'm trying to set up an 8-node cluster - 1 server and 7 diskless slaves
> (using Etherboot floppies). I've been through all the wizard steps with no
> error messages and get to the point where it asks me to reboot my clients.
> So I watch as the machine boots and I get a "cannot mount root fs - trying
> floppy" and "NFS not running" or something very close to that and I'm stuck
> at that point. I can see the client filesystems under /tftpboot/{client
> ip-address}/ and nfsd is running on the server. I'm guessing I need to
> explicitly export the filesystems but I'm real weak as far as nfs goes.
> Can anyone tell me if I'm overlooking something really simple?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Muir
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