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Does anyone have any good how-to's or documentation on setting up read only root NFS for pxe booting diskless computers? A few months ago I stumbled upon an official Redhat doc through a google search(not hosted by redhat and I cannot find it anywhere on the Redhat site) written by Dave Kline named "Configuring diskless clients with Red Hat Enterprise Linux" from 2011. It seemed to

Hello all, I have observed a problem with a diskless PXE client I am attempting to configure. PXE/NFS/DHCP/TFTPd server is running CentOS5.1 and the Diskless workstation's root and kernel was extracted from a CentOS5.1 (custom kernel due to setting to enable Root File System support). Problem: When the diskless client boots and logs in I notice that my root user is being squashed, even if I

I have several machines, same hardware and config, but one tiny little change.. the hostname. Each one of these diskless machines needs its own hostname. Presently my pxelinux.cfg is setup like: prompt 1 default Gentoo timeout 10 label Gentoo kernel boot/kernel-3.16.5-gentoo APPEND root=/dev/nfs rw ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.1.10:/RAID/diskless/XXXXX-mythtv-0.27-fixes,tcp,rsize=131072

Hi, I''m using Xen for a few years, on diskless Intel servers. These servers boot using PXE to an iSCSI remote disk, and works just fine. Now I''m trying to do the same, but instead of using iscsi, I would like to use the server booting in a NFS root. The problem is that, after I boot the server and start Xen, when I try to start a VM, it takes fron 60 to 180 seconds to start

> /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/default > --- > DEFAULT /gentoo-x86_64/boot/kernel-3.14.14-gentoo > APPEND ip=dhcp ro rootfstype=nfs root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=10.0.0.11:/diskless/gentoo-x86_64 > init=/linuxrc That pxelinux.cfg/default seems "tolerable" for older versions, but not for Syslinux 5+. Is this an inadequate copy of the actual content? Or is it really a

Hi everyone, I got the error: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux NET4.0 ds: no socket drivers loaded request_module[block-major-8]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device ""or 08:03 Please append a correct "root"boot option The strange thing is that it tries to mount from harddisk. This I got somewhere else: "the kernel looks like it is trying to

Yes it is possible. Not sure why you posted this to syslinux though. On Monday, August 24, 2015 10:46 PM, Marc Tousignant via Syslinux <syslinux at zytor.com> wrote: I have several machines, same hardware and config, but one tiny little change.. the hostname. Each one of these diskless machines needs its own hostname. Presently my pxelinux.cfg is setup like: prompt 1 default

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Nux! wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to deploy some non-linux OS via pxe and I was thinking to > just launch CentOS in RAM and then run dd or qemu-img or something > like this in order to complete the other OS install via template > imaging. My first idea was to build a custom CentOS livecd and use > that in combination with pxe

Because everything I searched on for a PXELinux mailing list pointed me to here. And because PXELinux is a derivative of SYSLinux. If there is a better mailing list for my questions, please let me know. Since you say its possible, care to enlighten me on how to do so? Marc From: Don Cupp [mailto:doncuppjr at yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 10:58 AM To: Marc Tousignant

Hello all Now I may be way of whack here, so please forgive me. I''m trying to merge xen with redhat''s config-netboot. The idea being a kinda stateless domU. For those that haven''t seen you share a rootfs and then bind mount all the individual files over then top, and the redhat gui builds all the pxeboot config and stuff for you if you want a diskless client. I

I'm trying to boot RedHat 9.0 on a diskless PC from a head machine running Redhat 9.0. The network appears to be setup correctly. I can boot the installation disk image fine using pxelinux. What I am trying to setup is a number of different Linux systems each with its own root directory on the head machine. I am hoping that I don't have to modify the kernel for any of these systems.

in Documentation/nfsroot.txt, it says: 1.) Enabling nfsroot capabilities ----------------------------- In order to use nfsroot you have to select support for NFS during kernel configuration. Note that NFS cannot be loaded as a module in this case. The configuration script will then ask you whether you want to use nfsroot, and if yes what kind of auto configuration system you want to use.

Hello all, I have finally successfully booted a diskless NFS Gentoo client and I am very pleased with it! I only have one issue left I'd like to understand; the master Gentoo server that I based my diskless image from boots nicely via dhcp and accepts the hostname parameter its DHCP server passes along with its leased IP address. I have posted in the Gentoo forum, but thought I'd post

I'm replacing the master node in a cluster and having issues PXE booting the diskless nodes. The current master works fine, but the new node to replace the current node which has the same setup is having the issues. The hardware is: Dell r920 (new master node, UEFI) Dell r620's (diskless, BIOS) Dell 1950's (diskless, BIOS) When trying to boot, the 1950 node displays (though both

any comments? if nothing else, is there any way to atomically setup bridge? not on list, please cc. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 21:08:15 -0000 From: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> To: Adam Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu>, xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] nfsroot and brige > hello, > it seems like a catch-22 to

Hi, I've got another one... NFS error 101 with NFSROOT has been discussed a lot, and hpa gave an answer to it which appears right. It's ENETUNREACH, and I suspect my diskless box does not set its IP parameters right. PXElinux is set up as follows: label linvdr kernel kernel-linvdr append initrd=initrd-linvdr acpi=off root=/dev/nfs \

Hello ALL, I've got a diskless server working (under Gentoo), booting on it works. (a linux session start with no problem.) My Big problem, is to get Memdisk to boot with PXE. In fact memdisk is loaded, but it cannot find the img file. I've tried a lot of thing, but nothing works... tftp use : /diskless the config file for PXE in then in : /diskless/pxelinux.cfg/ the root for the

I've been having some real issues creating a working configuration file for my PXE Linux 2.03 installation from which I intend to boot diskless workstations. I've tried a huge number of differences for passing the init argument but none seem to work. Current config file should look something like this: ******** default std label std kernel linuz append root=/dev/nfs

Hi to all, I'm trying to install PXE boot + NFS for diskless boot for Linux system. So everything looks fine until I tried to use other NFS server to mount root file system. So I try just to change parameter in pxelinux.cfg files Append nfsroot=to_new_nfs_server:/new_root_dir But in boot process I received rootserver: TFTP/DHCP server rootpath: <empty>

Hi to all, ?I'm trying to install PXE boot + NFS for diskless boot for Linux system. So everything looks fine until I tried to use other NFS server to mount root file system. So I try just to change parameter in pxelinux.cfg files Append nfsroot=to_new_nfs_server:/new_root_dir But in boot process I received rootserver: TFTP/DHCP server rootpath: <empty>