[K12OSN] Booting iMacs and YUM Question

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Mon Apr 18 18:25:13 UTC 2005


Selzler, Bruce wrote:
> Hello Team,
>
> I have two questions.  First, I just updated a LTSP server via yum so that I can
> boot iMacs from the server.  On the test iMac, its one of the blue bondi's, it
> actually starts to boot then comes up with the following error;
>
> ERROR! Failed to mount the root directory via NFS!
>
> I'm assuming this is whats keeping the system from booting altogether.  However
> it appears that NFS is running correctly.  Any ideas?

Make sure that the ppc directory is exported. You should see a line like
this in /etc/exports:


      /opt/ltsp/ppc  192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(ro,no_root_squash,sync)


If you don't see a "/opt/ltsp/ppc" line, you can either add that line by
hand or run (if you have a stock install)

     /opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/setup-update.sh


Afterwards, run:

	exportfs -a

That should do it.

> Second, I have another server, which happens to be identical to the one just
> discussed, that I updated so I can work with the schoolbell program.  While
> schoolbell was installed and works on the first server, it does not on the
> second server.  And, as I said, these are identical servers and configurations.
> Any ideas?
>
> Let me know what you think.
>
> - Sez

What does the logs say?  /var/log/schoolbell


-Eric
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