Hello all!
I try mondo/mindi for some days now but it does not
work and I don't know the reason.
It is an intel Suse-8.0 Client and I use the Suse-8.0
packages from ftp.mondorescue.org.
dhcp and tftp work fine. mondoarchive works, but I
don't find any initrd.img for pxe/nfs. All initrd
I have found ask for a CDROM and as they cannot
find any they ask for a floppy when starting the
pxe recovery.
Isn't it possible to recover by using pxe/nfs only ?
Some information and my configuration:
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# I tried both, with and without "-H"
client# mount 192.168.1.1:/exp/NFS /mnt/NFS
client# mondoarchive -On 192.168.1.1:/exp/NFS -s 650m [-H] -E /mnt/NFS
server# mount -o loop /exp/NFS/1.iso /mnt/mondo
server# cp -p /mnt/mondo/* /tftpboot/ 2>/dev/null # cp files only
server# cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
default RESTORE
prompt 1
timeout 30
display message.txt
label RESTORE
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img pxe load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 \
ramdisk_size=68640 rw root=/dev/ram nuke acpi=off apm=off devfs=nomount
# append is one line in the file, I broke it just for easier reading
When rebooting the client, I can see:
1. making a dhcp request
2. getting IP, GW, filename "pxelinux.0", tftp-IP ...
3. making tftp request
4. getting initrd.img
... doing something
5. looking for a CDROM
6. complains that there is no CDROM and falling back to floppy
I don't understand this last step. Why it is looking for CDROM when I
do a pxe/nfs recovery ?
Ralf Baerwaldt
