nfsroot via NetApp F840

DISCUSSION Daniel G. Pruitt 2 participants 2 messages Sep 20, 2002

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Daniel G. Pruitt

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2002-09-20 21:09 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi,

I'm having difficulties getting nfsroot to mount "/" via a NetApp filer. Are there any tricks to this, patches I need, etc.?

Here's what I'm using...

PXEConfig File:

---
DEFAULT netapp

LABEL netapp
KERNEL linux-2.4.19smp
APPEND root=/dev/nfs
nfsroot=128.165.87.20:/vol/vol1/rfs/128.165.87.181,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,nfsvers=3
IPAPPEND 1

---

I have tried nfsvers 2 and 3. I have tried tcp and udp nfs. I have tried all combinations of these, and the NetApp won't mount to root in the kernel.

I have successfully mounted nfsroot from a Linux NFS Server with these options.

Also, once the diskless client is booted (via Linux NFS Server), I can successfully mount the NetApp file system to /mnt/tmp.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Daniel

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H. J. Lu

2002-09-20 21:44 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 5 lines · Daniel G. Pruitt

Hi,
I'm having difficulties getting nfsroot to mount "/" via a NetApp filer. Are there any tricks to this, patches I need, etc.?

I don't think you can since device files are special. You may get away with it using devfs.

H.J.