I need some netboot help
Thomas Lange
lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Thu Oct 28 17:48:26 CEST 2010
>>>>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:31:56 +0200, Markus Wigge <markus at cultcom.de> said:
> For paravirtualised VMs XenServer is aware of the Debian repository
> architecture and tries to boot the kernel and initrd in
> "dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/xen", so I built
> my own repository infrastructure and put the original Xen-Kernel there
> with a custom netboot inirtd.
Please boot the Debian kernel, that is inside the nfsroot. You may
want to put a xen version into the nfsroot.
> Unfortunately it does not work as expected yet. For some reason the
> netboot initrd image I tried is unable to mount the nfsroot.
Do not boot the netboot image. You must boot a kernel which can mount
the root file sys tem via NFS. I guess the netboot image can't do
this.
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regards Thomas
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