Sorry I'm trying to install red hat ws. I thought that it looks similar. Nicolas ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Friday, March 11, 2005 3:06 pm Subject: Re: Fedora diskless feature > NICOLAS GOBET wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have 8 Dell PowerEdge 1850 to install. It's a good occasion to > try the > > diskless feature of redhat. > > I followed this documentation: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3- > Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-diskless.html > > But there is a problem: > > when the pxe client boots, it makes a kernel panic, because of no > init> found. > > The server is a Dell Poweredge with Red Hat ES 3 > (192.168.0.20)(up to > > date) and the nodes will have a RedHat WS 3 distribution. > > > > The setup of the first node works great and I make an image using: > > rsync -v -a -e ssh 192.168.0.198:/ /diskless/RHEL3-WS/root/ > > --exclude="/proc/*" --exclude="/sys/*" > > > > Then I have made the nfs exports: > > /diskless/RHEL3-WS/root/ *(ro,sync,no_root_squash) > > /diskless/RHEL3-WS/snapshot/ *(rw,sync,no_root_squash) > > > > I can acces these nfs shares with each computer on my lan. > > The the dhcpd sends what's needed, exactly as described in the doc. > > The PXE client boots, gets the pxelinux.0 (given by the setup of > Red Hat) > > > > Then it looks in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg, trying to find a > > file with its MAC Address and finally loads the client file > > corresponding to it's ip: > > #beginning > > default rhel-3-ws > > > > label rhel-3-ws > > kernel rhel-3-ws/vmlinuz > > append initrd=rhel-3-ws/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 > init=disklessrc> NFSROOT=192.168.0.20:/diskless/RHEL3-WS > ramdisk_size=10000 ETHERNET=eth0 > > SNAPSHOT=192.168.0.220 NFSROOT=192.168.0.20:/diskless/RHEL3-WS > > init=disklessrc root=/dev/ram0 > > #end > > > > As written in this file, the client looks in ...../rhel-3-ws and it > > loads the vmlinuz and the initrd.img generated by the Red hat tool. > > > > This works correctly but right after the load of the nfs shares > appears> the kernel panic: > > here are the interesting lines: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > Freeing ununsed kernel memory: 224k freed > > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > > > It sounds like the nfs share is mounted, but the kernel doesn't see > > anything on the "partition". > > I was able to mount the nfs share with the cd installation. > > > > Has somebody an opinion about this? Where did I make mistakes? > > Are you trying to install Fedora (as per the message subject), or > Red > Hat Enterprise 3 WS (as per all the pathnames quoted above)? > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
