Clarification for NFSROOT ?

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:35:02 -0500, George VerDuin <gfv2008-home at yahoo.com> said:

    > Let's start with the content of pxelinux.cfg/file.  My FAI is 4.0.8.  In 
    > the boot string is found the parm.:
    >      nfsroot=192.168.2.12:/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3
    > The above works fine for my LAN.

    > BUT:  In order to obtain this parm requires manual editing to insert 
    > both the ip and vers into the text following creation of the file by 
    > fai-chboot.   I'm searching for a better approach.
You can create a PXE config template file by hand, and then use
fai-chboot -vc to copy this template to a certain host configuration.

    > The way I find that nfsroot.conf file works is:
    >    A) NFSROOT=/srv/fai/nfsroot
    >        works correctly for fai-setup while creating nfsroot per the 
    > fai-guide
    >    B) NFSROOT=192.168.2.12:/srv/fai/nfsroot:vers=3
    >        works correctly for fai-chboot while building a pxelinux.cfg/file.
Do not use B, because in nfsroot.conf the variable NFSROOT is used for
creating the nfsroot. It's not the same as nfsroot= in the
pxelinux.cfg files.

You should also use root= instead of nfsroot= in the pxelinux.cfg
files when using dracut, which is default for FAI 4.

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regards Thomas