/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir

John G. Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Wed Jun 12 00:30:50 CEST 2013


What does it mean to specify nfsvers=3 in the pxelinux.cfg file? 
Googling shows me that it may mean to add "ks:nfs:nfsvers=3" to the 
append line in a file such as /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg/default.




On 06/11/13 16:45, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:32:57 -0500, "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu> said:
>
>      > After rebuilding my nfsroot with fai 4.0.6, I have no
>      > /srv/fai/nfsroot/liv/filesystem.dir. It seems to have built the root
>      > directly in /srv/fai/nfsroot. So I can do ths:
> In FAI 4 the nfsroot uses dracut (instead of live-boot), which does
> not use the live/filesystem.dir subdirectories.
>
> Also some minor changes in pxelinux.cfg (or the kernel command line)
> has to be made. Use fai-chboot for creating the correct pxelinux
> configuration.
>
>
>      > [   13.221333] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> This may be caused by an NFS v4 problem. Bug  #676883 describes a
> workaround.
>

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