On 4/30/07, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/30/07, Stefan van der Eijk <stefan@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get FC6 working on a diskless system. I hope this is the > correct list to discuss this topic, if not please ignore this message. > > As I mentioned, I'm trying to get FC6 to work in a diskless system. To > do this I first installed FC6 in a VMware (with disk). I'm using that > as the "example" system. > > I'm following the instructions provided in the documentation of the > system-config-netboot-0.1.41-1.FC6 package. After rsyncing over the > files to the NFS server, setting up DHCP and TFTP servers it's time > for the first attempt. The diskless client is a vmware, confgured to > boot over the network (PXE). > > With the first attempt, the system stops with the following error: > "Mounting rot filesystem: /nfsroots/fc6-diskless/root from 192.168.254.254 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > 192.168.254.254:/nfsroots/fc6-diskless/root, > missing codepage r other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or > so." > > For screenshot see: http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/1.jpg > > As mentioned in > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend#Redhat_and_Fedora_Core > /sbin/mount.nfs is missing in the initrd.img. This patch adds it > (although I'm not sure if mount.nfs4 should be added too): > > # diff -ur /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless.orig > /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless > --- /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless.orig > 2007-04-29 23:18:24.000000000 +0200 > +++ /usr/share/system-config-netboot/diskless/updateDiskless > 2007-04-29 23:18:50.000000000 +0200 > @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ > done; > #/bin/cp "$ROOT"/usr/share/hwdata/pcitable $MNTPOINT/usr/share/hwdata/ || die; > # disklessrc now uses modules.pcimap, not pcitable > -BINS="/sbin/busybox.anaconda /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe /sbin/rmmod > /sbin/dhclient /bin/bash /bin/mount /sbin/route /sbin/ip /usr/bin/expr > /sbin/lspci /sbin/ifconfig /sbin/consoletype /sbin/pivot_root > /bin/hostname /bin/domainname /usr/bin/host" > +BINS="/sbin/busybox.anaconda /sbin/insmod /sbin/modprobe /sbin/rmmod > /sbin/dhclient /bin/bash /bin/mount /sbin/mount.nfs /sbin/mount.nfs4 > /sbin/route /sbin/ip /usr/bin/expr /sbin/lspci /sbin/ifconfig > /sbin/consoletype /sbin/pivot_root /bin/hostname /bin/domainname > /usr/bin/host" > # Set up links to all the busybox functions - > # may be different for different versions of busybox! > if [ ! -e $ROOT/sbin/busybox.anaconda ]; then > > 2nd attempt ended with it complaining that it couldn't pivot_root. > Seems that /.oldroot directory isn't created. For screenshot see: > http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/2.jpg > > After making that directory it also complains that /.snapshot isn't > made either. Starting udev takes ages, > http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/3.jpg > > I didn't wait for it to finish, just made the directory on the NFS > server and reset the vmware. > > http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/4.jpg > > After re-reading the .html pages in > /usr/share/doc/system-config-netboot-0.1.41/ I followed the > instructions to create a client. Changed the pxe config to reflect > this. > > label fc6 > KERNEL vmlinuz > APPEND initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 init=disklessrc > NFSROOT=192.168.254.254:/nfsroots/fc6-diskless ramdisk_size=19102 > ETHERNET=eth0 SNAPSHOT=fc6-diskless > > resulting in this: http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/5.jpg > > added "ramdisk_blocksize=1024", from > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Diskless_Frontend#Redhat_and_Fedora_Core > > The end result is a FC6 diskless client that hangs on starting udev. > http://eijk.homelinux.org/~stefan/fc-diskless/6.jpg > > I'm wondering what I've missed in the documentation and what I'm doing > wrong. I feel that I'm already correcting too many things myself --> > this stuff should be made in a way that it just works and is trivial > to set up. As the package version/release is still the same in > rawhide, I guess this same package is going to be shipped with FC7. > > What would be the best way to move forward? Shall I start with filing > some bugreports? Or is this not the right time to do so (freeze for > fc7)? > > with kind regards, > > Stefan van der Eijk Have you considered using Linux Terminal Server, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltsp/ ?
No, I didn't, I was expecting (!!) that the redhat tools would be able to do the job. Are there ltsp packages available in Fedora or would I need to cook my own?
