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Old 11-25-2009, 04:05 AM   #1
ramu.kavati
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PXE remote boot issue with Intel gigabit ET Dual port server adapter


Hi,

I am trying to verify pxe boot of SLES 11 via Intel gigabit ET Dual port server adapter.

I have setup dhcp server, tftp server, NFS (exported /tftpboot to diskless host with proper permissions) and /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default on a machine. When I try to remote install on a diskless host, it could not find harddisk. I had to manually mount /tftpboot as "/ " via NFS, then installation went fine. At the end, when it asked for reboot, I have changed /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default with the options root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=nfs://<IP>/tftpboot. But diskless throws an error "unable to mount nfs://<IP>/tftpboot". Can you please let me know if I am missing anything in the above setup.



Thanks & Regards,

Ramu
 
Old 11-25-2009, 08:49 AM   #2
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If you are trying to boot to an NFS root filesystem, then the kernel must be built with NFS root support. Is this what you are trying to do?
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