[mythtv-users] Best options/howto for diskless frontends

[Per Jessen]

Paul Gardiner wrote:

 > I ran "mkinitrd -k vmlinuz -i initrdnfs -f nfs -D eth0 -B" and copied
 > the result plus the kernel to my server's tftp directory.

This probably makes no difference, but I usually build with "-d /dev/nfs"; 
somehow "-f nfs" hasn't always worked for me.

 > I put the following in the pxelinux.cfg file:
 >
 > DEFAULT clunk-nfs
 >
 > LABEL clunk-nfs
 >             KERNEL clunk/vmlinuz
 >             APPEND initrd=clunk/initrd init=/bin/systemd root=/dev/nfs
 > rw nfsroot=10.0.0.5:/home/clunk
 > rootflags=hard,intr,v3,wsize=8192,rsize=8192
 >
 > [also tried init=/bin/init and leaving it out completely]

I always leave it out.

 > It tries very hard to work. The boot gets past the nfs mount stage and
 > gets some way through the init, but then it just stops. No shell
 > prompt, and I can't ssh in, so it's difficult to tell where it went
 > wrong. Here's a photo of the screen:
 > http://intranet.glidos.net/~paul/boot-failure.jpg.
 >
 > On the server side, I can see three
 > successful dhcp runs, with a tftp access between first and second, and
 > an nfs mount between second and third. I feel like it's close, but I'm
 > out of ideas what to try to get it the rest of the way.

In /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0, do you have:

STARTMODE='nfsroot' ?


/Per

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