image transfer problem

[Lorenzo Campo]

Hi,
I checked NFS server but everything seems to be ok. In /etc/exports 
there are following lines:

# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be 
exported
# to NFS clients. See exports(5).
/files/scratch/debmirror *(async,ro)
/usr/local/share/fai 192.168.100.0/24(async,ro)
/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot 192.168.100.0/24(async,ro,no_root_squash)

while in /etc/dhcp3/dhcp.conf there are:

# dhcpd.conf for fai
# replace faiserver with the name of your install server

# deny unknown-clients;
option dhcp-max-message-size 2048;
use-host-decl-names on;
#always-reply-rfc1048 on;

filename "pxelinux.0";

# the server from which to load the initial boot file if different
# from server-name (if the DHCP server is not also the TFTP server)
next-server nodo00;


subnet 192.168.100.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.100.100 192.168.100.101;
option routers 192.168.100.100;
option domain-name "beowulf";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.100.101;
option time-servers nodo00;
option ntp-servers nodo00;
option nis-domain "beowulf";
option nis-servers faiserver;
server-name "nodo00";
option root-path 
"/usr/lib/fai/nfsroot,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,acregmin=1800,acregmax=1800,acdirmin=1800,acdirmax=1800";
}

# perl -ane ' {print "host atom {hardware ethernet $1;fixed-address 
atom}";}'
#host demohost {hardware ethernet 0:2:a3:b5:c5:41;fixed-address demohost;}
host nodo01 {hardware ethernet 00:13:d4:7a:83:ee;fixed-address nodo01;}


where the master is nodo00 and the first node is nodo01. NFS and DHCP 
daemons are up and running, and the configuration of iptables is simply:

# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.11 on Mon Nov 14 11:49:57 2005
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [5679:503578]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [6475:484126]
:pfilter - [0:0]
COMMIT
# Completed on Mon Nov 14 11:49:57 2005

so I guess there are no connectivity problems in the local network. Any 
idea about why nfs server seems not work? Anyway I'll be grateful if you 
could send me your patch, it could be useful, maybe also for this problem.
Thank you
Lorenzo

 >/tmp/fai/boot.log is one of the logfiles created in the RAM of your 
client (and
 >later stored to /var/log/fai/localhost/...), but most probably this is 
not that
 >important.
 >
 >/fai/class is (usually) set up by mounting the fai-configuration 
directory from
 >your server using NFS, which is probably located at 
/usr/local/share/fai, so you
 >are right. But as a result of the RPC error the directory could not be 
mounted.
 >
 >You need to check the connection to your NFS server, and furthermore 
check that
 >the NFS-services are running. I had the problem that for some reason my
 >rpc.mountd crashed after mounting the NFSROOT, which resulted in 
similar errors.
 >If that is true for you, I can send you a patch to fix this issue.
 >
 >HTH, Michael
 >
 >