[K12OSN] Test NBD Root?

[Warren Togami Jr.]

On 8/15/2011 5:41 AM, Dean Jones wrote:
> On 8/14/11 3:02 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
>> On 8/12/2011 8:15 AM, Burke Almquist wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 12, 2011, at 2:53 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/NBDRootConfiguration
>>>>
>>>> Could someone please test if the NBD Root boot documentation still
>>>> works?
>>>>
>>>> Warren
>>>>
>>>
>>> My Optiplex GX1 (PIII 450 192MB) works out of the box as a client on
>>> a fresh install of SL6.1. Even the network setup seemed to work fine
>>> for me.
>>> When I enable NBD root instead of NFS, it gets to the login screen
>>> fine. But when I try to log in, it keeps going back to the login
>>> screen again.
>>> Does NBD require more memory to work?
>>
>> Strange... on my system, the EL6.1 chroot with NBD boot gets stuck after:
>> Adding udev persistent rules [ OK ]
>>
>> If you boot NFS the next visible thing there is starting the NBD swap,
>> so I tried to turn off NBD swap with no apparent effect.
>>
>> I don't know what's going on. I will dig more later.
>>
>> Warren
>>
>
> This is with the main EL6 release. With the release 11 the NBD root
> works fine. So these message comparisons are between those two versions.
>

In my case it doesn't even get to X in EL6 with NBD boot.

I suspect something during "Adding udev persistent rules [ OK ]" screwed 
up the nbd block device and it is just hanging.

Warren