[mythtv-users] Questions on PXE booting a frontend

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Gareth
Glaccum<gareth.glaccum at btopenworld.com> wrote:
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> From: Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com>
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> much happier.)  The final problem I encountered before giving up for
> the night is that the "mount" command built into nash doesn't support
> NFS, so I guess I need to package up and use mount.nfs in the initrd
> script.
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> I am surprised at that, are you sure it isn't just getting the wrong
> arguments? (personally I leave my fstab as /dev/root).

You are right.  The man page for nash says that the mount command does
not support NFS, but the document appears to be 5 years out of date.
Looking at the mkinitrd script and the nash source code indicates that
NFS mounting is supported.  I'll report back when I have that part
working.

Jim