[Techtalk] booting a diskless client

[Maria McKinley]

Jean-Daniel Pauget wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:39:16AM -0700, Maria McKinley wrote:
>> Found an error message, NFS3ERR_NOENT
>>      No such file or directory. The file or directory name specified 
>> does not exist.
>>
>> How can it exist the first time, but not the second? I guess the nfs 
>> command has changed, but can't quite figure that out. Both times it 
>> should be getting the root-path from the dhcp server.
>>
>> Argh!
> 
>     I wonder if the last time I had to set things up I ran into troubles
>     when trying to boot with a server using user-mode nfs-server rather
>     than kernel-mode nfs-server ...
> 
>     reading back my notes from then, I think I insisted on
>     kernel-nfs-server being used (and indeed my net-boots work with it)
> 
>     give it a try ?
> 


I think you are onto something. I have been using the nfs-kernel-server, 
but I think there is a bug with it that I am running into. I was looking 
at this list discussion:

https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2007-November/005511.html

I wasn't sure exactly what he meant by add nfs-common to the NFSROOT 
file, so I looked at the bug report he was referring to:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444079

So, there someone says add the -o nolock option, but I'm not sure where 
to add this option. I am also not sure what fai is, so maybe this isn't 
even relevant, but seems worth a try.

cheers,
maria