Hello,thank you very much for your response. (sorry, my english isnt very good).I try to specify the problem. What is in the instructions I run OK, I tried to, there is a problem. It is to me but to the whole system started from a file, such as a rootfs.gz. And that was the root from /dev/ram0 and not dependent on the running of the server where the NFS. And throughout the / (rootfs) would be in memory, instead of NFS, as it is in the instructions, or with you. My procedure was as follows.
1) i create 400M file dd if=/dev/zero of=ext.img bs=1024k count=400 2) and ext2 on this file mkfs -t ext2 ext.img 3) mount this file as loop to /mnt mount ext.img /mnt/ -o loop 3) to this file i copy rootfs (a) deboostrap + setup kernel ; b) copy running system (cp -ax) ) 4) modify fstab in "new" system: /dev/ram0 / auto defaults 0 0 5) umount /mnt/ and gzip: gzip -c ext.img > rootfs.gz 6) config tftp on router: router:/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg# cat default default linux label linux kernel vmlinuzappend vga=normal init=/sbin/init initrd=rootfs.gz ramdisk_size=750000 root=/dev/ram0 rw --
when i start diskless pc, system start booting ok, get ip ok, get rootfs.gz ok (screen here: http://www.sdilej.eu/pics/f2525f3751c0f396b53f722494f7c0e5.PNG ) booting kernel is ok, but this go down with this message: http://www.sdilej.eu/pics/f31ae42809c9ea4795450a8da1cb3695.PNG
this is doing on debian etch, in lenny is dont write "list of partitions". thank you very much, nice day. m. Steve Kemp napsal(a):
On Sat Mar 21, 2009 at 13:22:31 +0100, michal krajcirovic wrote:Appreciate any idea to solve, or even pay for some help (paypal, ...), but a lot of me to burn it and you do not know advice.You don't say what part failed. In general you'll receive no help unless you explain what you've tried, which part failed, and what error messages you received. The basic stuff, getting a PXE network setup for installation, is described here: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478 If you can get that part working then you're almost there, you only have to use debootstrap/similar to create a filesystem exported by NFS and then pass that via your PXE setup. My PXE file contains this: LABEL netboot KERNEL netboot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.17 APPEND root=/dev/nfs initrd=netboot/initrd.img-2.6.27.17 nfsroot=192.168.1.10:/nfs/netboot ip=dhcp rw The kernel I copied from my host system. The initrd I generated after changing /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to have "root = NFS" and rebuilding it. In terms of the actual NFS root I export it like this: /nfs/netboot 192.168.1.0/24(rw,async,no_root_squash,insecure) There's nothing special in the root, just a simple filesystem with NFS root, and simple /etc/network/interfaces to default to usign DHCP Steve