Re: 3.0.17 alpha nfs-root install problems
"Sam Johnston" <samj@samj.net> writes:
> Most impressed with the new installer. Just having some grief with
> installing to an alpha (specifically multia) which has no disk
> devices. Boots fine. Mounts root over NFS fine. Downloads files
> from the network fine. Just refuses to mount the rescue disk In
> messages I'm seeing things like this:
>
> installing /tmp/rescue.bin
> Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: no such device
> Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: no such device
> Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: invalid argument
> Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: invalid argument
> Mounting /dev/ram on /floppy failed: no such device
> Unable to mount the rescue floppy. You may have inserted the wrong floppy.
> Please try again.
>
> Incidentally, cat /target/tmp/tmp/rescue.bin > /dev/ram followed by
> mount -t ext2 /dev/ram /floppy works fine.
Hm, that's weird. I'll check it when I get around.
> Any ideas what's going on here? If it's fixed in a new version, how
> can I create a new tftpboot.img? Does anyone have such an animal
> ready to roll?
Just checking out boot-floppies out of CVS and building should work
(although it downloads huge amounts of stuff), except currently the
busybox package is broken and a new version needs to be built.
Falk
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