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emk

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Registered: 2010-05-11

Posts: 39

Diskless client NFS boot fails. cannot create /dev/nfs

Hi

I've set up a diskless laptop to boot off my server, both running Arch. I followed the wiki article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_NFS_root

PXE on the laptop connects with the tftpd server just fine, gets the kernel and begins booting up. At some point it begins looking for /dev/nfs, declares it does not exist, attempts to create it and and fails with the following error (from memory as I'm not at the computer now).

"ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device root=/dev/nfs"

my kernel param line in pxelinux.cfg/default is just like the one in the wiki article i.e

default linux

label linux
kernel vmlinuz26
append initrd=kernel26.img rootfstype=nfs root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/disklessroot,v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384 ip=::::::dhcp

any help will be greatly appreciated.

emk

ChojinDSL

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-11-30

Posts: 64

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Re: Diskless client NFS boot fails. cannot create /dev/nfs

I'm assuming youve entered your own IP addresses instead of just copy&pasting from the howto, correct?

Also, did you install all the nfs packages, and do the mkinitcpio-nfs-utils procedure?