FAI via PXE: dracut mounts nfsroot from DHCP server instead of FAI server (and fails)

[Frank Thommen]

Hi Thomas,

On 09/30/2015 03:37 PM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:31:14 +0200, Frank Thommen <f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de> said:
>
>      > in our setup, FAI server and DHCP server are on two different machines.
> I have the same setup.
>
>      >    When booting a FAI client via PXE, dracut tries to mount nfsroot from
>      > the DHCP server (111.222.333.66) instead of using the FAI server
>      > (111.222.333.73).
> This is a known problem, which is more a dracut problem than a FAI
> problem. The fix is described in this posting of the debian bug:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731244#24
>
> Since I'm also the maintainer of dracut, I will think about adding a
> patch to Debian's dracut version.

Thanks.  This solved the issue.  Hopefully there will be a fix soon, so 
that we don't have to fix this for each single PXE config.

Frank