nfsroot problem

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 9 17:00:06 UTC 2004


Damir Anicic said:
> I have a problem with diskless client, nfsroot booted (no initrd).
>
> I have collected the (almost) minimal set of files one needs for diskless
> boot from the existing Fedora Core 1 instalation (on Pentium IV),
> and placed in /tftpboot/smallFedora.
> The nfsroot capable kernel image is also in place.
> The DHCP, TFTP, ... everything correctly setup.
>
> When I boot a Celeron (Pentium IV class) machine everything is OK.
> But, booting Pentium I (an old 133 MHz IBM) machine does not work.

The first problem I see is that your files are compiled for i686 (since
you took them from a Celeron machine) and the Pentium is a i586 arch. 
Things like the kernel and glibc are compiled for difference
architectures.

-- 
William Hooper





More information about the fedora-list mailing list