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vcl00e

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Registered: 2016-10-19

Posts: 2

Network Boot with pxelinux.0 hangs after loading .img file

Hi, I'm trying to get a diskless computer to boot over network into NFS

I've been following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_system

This is the output I'm getting so far before the system hangs:

PXELINUX 6.03 PXE 2014-10-06 Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
Now booting the kernel form SYSLINUX...
Loading nfs4/arch/boot/vmlinux-linux-rt... ok
Loading nfs4/arch/boot/intel-ucode.img...ok
Loading nfs4/arch/boot/initramrs-linux-rt.img...ok

My main problem is that I don't know how to troubleshoot the system - it doesn't print any error messages.

This is my pxelinux.cfg:
[alarm@storage ~]$ cat /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default
DEFAULT linux
LABEL linux
  SAY Now booting the kernel from SYSLINUX...
  KERNEL nfs4/arch/boot/vmlinuz-linux-rt
  APPEND edd=off acpi=off root=/dev/nfs initrd=nfs4/arch/boot/intel-ucode.img,nfs4/arch/boot/initramfs-linux-rt.img nfsroot=192.168.1.253:/srv/tftp/nfs4/arch ip=:::::eth0:dhcp rw

This is an RT kernel and initfs I compiled, but I've also tried with standard kernel and initfs the result was the same.

I can see the contents of the nfs share if I run "sudo mount 192.168.1.253:/srv/tftp/nfs4/arch test"  then "ls test"

The initfs file isn't corrupt, I could inspect the contents and see the init scripts inside - but none of the messages it was supposed to print was seen in the output I posted above.

Thanks for reading. I have been trying to get it working for weeks.. please help..

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,362

Re: Network Boot with pxelinux.0 hangs after loading .img file

Need to know more about what you've done. 
Did you use mkinitcpio-nfs-utils and make the needed changes to your mkinitcpio.conf?  You may need to hack in something if you are using nfs4 versus nfs3...

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