[syslinux] Re: network boot nfs as root

[robvog at hetnet.nl]

Hi there,

>> > How do you tell the kernel the  root FS? 
>> I have: 
>> In /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default 
>> default linux root=/dev/nfs nfsaddrs=192.168.1.1:192.168.1.1:192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:netserver:eth0 nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/netboot/base 
>> where netboot/base is where root for client system begins. 

>I have several pxelinux servers set up.  here's part of the config 
>for one of them. 

>LABEL linux 
>    KERNEL pxe-vmlinuz 
>    APPEND root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.99.1:/tftpboot/commonroot/ 

IT WORK'S!!

It was indeed my pxelinux configuration file that was failing. I took the above and adapted it to mine settings, and the directory gets mounted by the client. It won't do much beyond that since I haven't adapted the client's root directory not yet.
I start at that now.

Thank you very much Josef and Jim.


Rob