diskless fc6

[Chris Rouch]

On 2/2/07, davide rossetti <davide.rossetti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, January 31, 2007 10:05 am, Chris Rouch wrote:
>
> I haven't solved it conclusively yet. I unpacked the initrd.img and
> replaced mount with 'busybox mount' for the first nfs mount. This
> works, and the system boots to a login prompt, but there were enough
> other errors to make me think this wasn't a good solution.
> I looked at the script which creates the initrd.img and it just does a
> copy of /bin/mount.
>
> > My suspicion is that /bin/mount should be enough, but it needs
> > something else to make the nfs mount work correctly. I plan to try
> > again, but this time with a more or less full FC6 installation on my
> > diskless image rather than the minimal one I had before. I've also
> > thought of putting mount.nfs into the initrd.img and using that. Both
> > of these will have to wait until at least the weekend though.
>
> - busybox mount is ok
> - plain initrd.img /sbin/mount works, provided I copy /sbin/mount.nfs
> to initrd.img (found via strace)
> so it seems system-config-netboot forgot to copy /sbin/mount.nfs from
> master host to initrd.img. is there a bugzilla for this ?
>

I think /bin/mount has changed somewhere between fc4 and fc6 but
system-config-netboot hasn't been updated to reflect this.

Someone has already created a bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210738

Chris