...
>
> so, how have you set up your boot?
>
> this is how I did it;
>
> server;
> /etc/dhcpd.conf:
> ...
> host box.example.com {
> hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00;
> fixed-address 10.0.0.6;
> option root-path "10.0.0.3:/mnt/tmp";
> }
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-00-00-00-00-00-00:
> LABEL linux
> KERNEL vmlinuz-epia
> APPEND init=/sbin/init root=/dev/nfs ip=bootp
>
> and then I exported /mnt/tmp on 10.0.0.3..
>
> to get /mnt/tmp sorted out..
> # rpm --initdb --root /mnt/tmp
> # swup --root /mnt/tmp --import-key \
> /usr/share/tsl-gpgkeys/trustix-gpgkey.pub.gpg
> # swup --root /mnt/tmp --install bash-static swup
> # chroot /mnt/tmp
> # swup --install what_you_need
>
> As for your actual question..
> I don't know. :)
Here's what I did. This is for an embedded linux system with a CF card
as "disk", so I want to minimize writes to the CF card.
1. Built a minimum TSL 2.2 on a "spare" system with /, /usr, /var, and
/home partitions.
2. Created an nfsmount point on the dhcp server in /home/newbox, and
mounted on /mnt on the "spare" system.
3. copied the / partition to the nfs mount point using tar clSf - . |
(cd /mnt; tar xpSf -)
4. On dhcp server:
/etc/dhcpd.conf:
host newbox {
hardware ethernet 00:00:36:c5:2f:a0;
filename "pxeboot";
option root-path "10.10.10.10:/home/newbox";
fixed-address 10.10.10.19;
next-server 10.10.10.10;
}
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/00:00:36:c5:2f:a0:
SERIAL 0 9600 0
PROMPT 1
DEFAULT cf
label cf
kernel vmlinuz
append console=ttyS0,9600n81 root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=10.10.10.10:/home/newbox ip=static ramdisk_size=8192 rw
(the above append line was on one line.)
5. Interestingly enough, I could not get the pxelinux.0 from the Trustix
syslinux package to work at all, so I had to grab a copy from a RedHat
distro which did work.
I am now going to read your two wiki posts and try the new kernel I
built last evening with CONFIG_ROOT_NFS built in and see what happens.
As an added point of interest, I also ran into an interesting problem
with anaconda failing when trying to install onto CF card using an nfs
mounted distro. Anaconda failed while trying to write to /dev/tty5.
Anyway, regards and thanks for the info!
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