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Registered: 2019-11-27

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Trying to do a diskless install but getting kernel panic due to no fs

I'm following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_system with NBD and hitting a wall with this. Client gets to grub menu and starts loading the kernel, but then there is a panic due to having no root. root=/dev/nbd0 is passed as kernel param but it doesn't seem to matter. Kernel panic says no file system available and doesn't mention nbd anywhere. When I run lsinitcpio on initramfs-linux.img that was generated by mkinitcpio and is being served to client, fstab is completely empty. How would that happen?

Here is the grub config:

menuentry "Arch Linux NBD .20" {
    insmod all_video
    insmod nbd
    linux vmlinuz-linux ip=:::::eth0:dhcp root=/dev/nbd0 nbd_host=192.168.10.20 nbd_port=10809 nbd_name=arch debug initrd=initramfs-linux.img
}

And the kernel panic:

https://i.imgur.com/RlGaYxl.png

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Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2019-11-27 15:10:09)