On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 11:51:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:44:36 -0700 > Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org> wrote: > > i am unable to figure out how to configure yaird for NFS Root. > Hi Vagrant :-) greetings. > I agree with you that this is not currently very well handled. alright, let's work improve it, then :) > > i can't figure out what the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab would be, > Currently, MOUNTDIR does not support nfsroot so needs to be commented > out completely. ugh. > > as many NFS Root setups have no entry in /etc/fstab for root at all, > > and should be buildable in a chroot environment. perhaps if the third > > column in /etc/fstab for "/" is "nfs" it should realize that it's an > > nfsroot? > Recognizing NFS rootfs defined in fstab would probably be neat and not > hurt, but would only work for cases like lessdisks were the ramdisk is > built within the chroot also offered as rootfs. sure, but handling some situations well is often better than handling no situations well :) > Another issue is NIC drivers to include. When run on the NFS server as > is usually the case with lessdisks, by default only the driver for the > server NIC is included, which probably isn't what you want. indeed. > Attached is my current approach to running lessdisks with yaird. okay, that got me as far as building an image (although the Template.cfg patch didn't apply cleanly to version 0.0.11-9 of yaird, but i figured it out all the same). perhaps include (and if needed, update) these patches in a README.nfsroot or doc/examples/nfsroot.cfg or some such? ideally, a simple setup could be enabled by changing a single configuration option :) unfortunately, i still wasn't able to get it to boot, having similar/identical issues as with initramfs-tools: debian bug 336519 *sigh* live well, vagrant
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