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

Per Jessen per at computer.org
Fri Feb 22 11:35:33 UTC 2013


Paul Gardiner wrote:

> On 22/02/2013 07:18, Per Jessen wrote:
>> 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'll keep that in mind in case I run into any future problems. Maybe
> some bugs have been fixed since your last run. Another difference:
> I may be able to do without v3 in the rootflags. I haven't tried
> it since it's all been working, but earlier - before I had your and
> Tim's help - the boot progressed just as far without v3.

Hmm, interesting - perhaps mkinitrd was updated too.  I seem to recall
some sort of chicken-and-egg situation that prevented nfsv4 from
working so early.

>>
>> In /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0, do you have:
>>
>> STARTMODE='nfsroot' ?
> 
> Ah! No I don't. That may have been an alternative solution. Will that
> tell init that there is no need to if-up eth0?

Something like that I suspect, yes. 



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