Still having problem with configuring FAI

[Michael Senizaiz]

What kernel are you using?  Are you using 'boot=live'?  The boot= tells it
what script in scripts/ to run after init, and only live and nfs will use
the rootserver variable.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Nicolas Courtel <courtel at cena.fr> wrote:

>  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> 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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