Still having problem with configuring FAI

Nicolas Courtel courtel at cena.fr
Thu Jun 14 18:43:15 CEST 2012


Le 14/06/2012 17:28, Michael Senizaiz a écrit :
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Nicolas Courtel <courtel at cena.fr 
> <mailto:courtel at cena.fr>> wrote:
> Le 12/06/2012 19:14, Steve B. a écrit :
>
>     I keep getting the error when the target boots;  Trying netboot
>     from :/srv/fai/nfsroot .. Begin: Trying nfsmount -o nolock - ro
>     :/srv/fai/nfsroot /live/image .. nfsmount: can't parse IP address
>     ' ', then an endless loop of error can't parse IP address ' '.
>
>
>
> An easy workaround for this problem is to prepend the server adress in 
> the NFSROOT variable, like this: NFSROOT=192.168.1.1:/srv/fai/nfsroot. 
> And then run fai-chboot again for the target.

> This is occuring because the DHCP server isn't sending over 
> ROOTSERVER, or you are configuring with a static IP so rootserver 
> doesn't get set by the DHCP server.
>
>

It is, in fact, just before the nfs mount failure I can see the output 
of ipconfig, including 'rootserver=192.168.1.1' followed by rootpath; 
but for some reason the rootserver value is not sent to the kernel in 
amd64 environment, although it is with a i386 kernel.

Thanks for the tip,

-- 
Nicolas

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