Problem during booting of install kernel

Thomas Neumann blacky+fai at fluffbunny.de
Thu Nov 20 19:04:42 CET 2008


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hiya

Nikola schrieb:
[...]
> On my site, DHCP and TFTP/FAI are on two different servers. Also, in
> pxelinux.cfg/ file, there is ip=dhcp line.
>
> Since the kernel parameters are: nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot, I assume
> this is causing the problem?

nfsroot=<faiserver ip>:/srv/fai/nfsroot

IIRC you have to specify the faiserver's ip not his hostname, because the
initrd might not be able to correctly resolve the hostname.

tschüß
thomas



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