On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Ben Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Steve Traylen wrote:
>
> > Okay sounds like there is possibly more a problem with the
> > arguments to the kernel or reading the filesystem for
> > some reason? Just to check I have an iso which I know works.
> >
> > http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~traylens/isokernel/
>
> Thanks Steve. I tried booting from a CD with that image
> (lcfg-RH73-20030416-boot.iso) but now I get
> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
> VFS: Unable to mount fs via NFS, trying floppy.
So that is even worse...
>
> How does it know which machine to try as the NFS server?
It uses the same host as the DHCP server unless you specify
nextserver in the dhcpd.conf.
Checking /var/log/messages on the NFS server is the way to check for
requests. The obtained network parameters do also appear in the kernel
messages though they do of course whizz past.
Is this different hardware to what you used for EDG? At this very early
stage of the install then everything is identical until after the kernel init
script has been executed which is you are failing before reaching.
Steve
> which one it is trying? The LCFGng server (pc15.hep.ucl.ac.uk) is
> exporting the nginstallroot directory, and with the previous boot disk the
> node managed to get as far as mounting it.
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
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