FAI and NFS... please help troubleshoot

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Thank you Thomas for the hint -- it pushed me in the right direction
after hours of being stuck ;-)

to make store short, to make it work, I had to comment out that call to
dhclient:

get_dhcp_info() {

    boot=1
#    dhclient -lf /dev/null $netdevices >>$bootlog 2> $LOGDIR/dhclient.log
#    killall dhclient
}

otherwise that call on right network interface seems to drop the box off
the network for some reason. After I commented it out it went through
nicely ;)

Thank you for your help

P.S. I am really eager to see support for different distributions (ie
sarge/etch/sid) -- at the moment, since neither fai-setup nor
make-fai-nfsroot take anything else than
/etc/fai/fai.conf,make-fai-nfsroot.conf,sources.list, it gets very hard
to implement it (I am doing it semi-automatically, have .common files
and .$dist files incluging commongs, appropriate .$dist files gets
copied into the main ones during setup). Also to make it clean,
corresponding classess (SARGE, SID,ETCH) have to be defined within fai
install process so configuration can be tuned accordingly without
duplicating the scripts for different dists. For instance sarge
has kernel-image and etch and sid already linux-image..


> >>>>> On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:51:24 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at psychology.rutgers.edu> said:

>     > For the client I've tried to switch to tcp and nfs v3 -- at some point
>     > it suceeded after few "still trying" messages,
> Have a look at this problem. Why does it only work after several tries?

>     > May 25 17:44:18 raider mountd[4145]: authenticated mount request from node26.ravana.rutgers.edu:1023 for /home/fai/nfsroot/amd64.sid (/home/fai/nfsroot)

>     > Calling task_confdir
>     > Kernel parameters: ip=dhcp devfs=nomount FAI_ACTION=install console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/home/fai/nfsroot/amd64.sid,tcp,v3 FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,reb 
>     > nfs: server 10.0.0.249 not responding, still trying
>     > nfs: server 10.0.0.249 not responding, still trying
> Does your client has multiple network devices?
> IMO it's in get-boot-info. there we call dhclient $netdevices. This
> may cause you network setup to get faulty. Add a set -xv command into
> this script, so you see what happens inside get-boot-info.
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