Bug#267553: kernel does not install from nfsrooted environnement

[Frederik Schueler <fs@lowpingbastards.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:50:59AM +0200, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote:
> The exact booting order was the following :
> - Netbooting (PXE) the box,
> - partitioning
> - tar xzf sarge.tgz /mnt/out (home build sarge-base tarball)
> - chroot /mnt/out
> - mount /proc
> - apt-get {update,upgrade}
> - install some packages

at this point you should install initrd-tools and setup your
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf to have a ROOT=<device> entry pointing to
what will be your rootfs partition. 

from what device do you want to boot at all, ata sata scsi...?

> - apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686
> 
> Right know it seems I cannot install sarge from a nfsroot env without 
> building my own kernel... I do feel the severity should be higher. 
> Leaving it at your appreciation because of the freeze.

Are you going to boot the systems from disk or via network?

Greetings
Frederik Schueler

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