Hi Rich,<br><br>I am not sure whether FC6 needs a special setup to be netbooted but I had some weird issue the very 1st time I had to netboot my debian based client. PXE worked, kernel loaded, but then, X would not start. There was also a freaky message about fstab and fsck, and that the mount was read-only (sounds very similar to your issue). I simply forgot to modify the /<nfs-share-root-for-diskless-client>/etc/fstab on the NFS server. I removed everything that had to do with the client local HD, added a /dev/nfs entry pointing to the NFS share holding the root of the diskless client, and a few /var/<some-stuff> entries mounted on /dev/ramX (X being 1, 2, ,3, etc).<br><br>Once I modified the fstab, the netboot was successful :)<br>I am not at home so I cannot opy/paste my diskless client's fstab but it gives you an idea of the problem I had and fixed.<br><br>J.<br><br><br><br><b><i>Rich West <Rich.West@wesmo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq"
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Neil Sedger wrote:<br>> <..snip..><br>>> o It does generate an error regarding fstab being ro during startup, and<br>>> it then hangs for ~2mins at starting /sbin/init<br>>> <br>><br>> fstab should be in the snapshot area...<br>><br>> Mine sits at /sbin/init for about 2 mins too. Not sure what its doing as <br>> there's no output! It doesn't whinge when its done though, just carries <br>> on normally, so maybe this is just how long it takes?<br>><br>> <br>>> o It doesn't start any of the local network services (ssh, ntp, etc).<br>>> o It doesn't allow me to log in as "root" or as "mythtv". I can't even<br>>> /bin/su - as either of those users..<br>>> <br>><br>> Not sure about those, but fixing the snapshot problem will very probably <br>> fix them too. Especially if /etc/passwd and friends are
supposed to be <br>> in the snapshot and therefore out of date... or if it can't write to /var...<br>><br>><br>> What does it say on screen when the snapshot fails?<br>> Mine has said things like 'dir xxx not found' or 'dir yyy could not be <br>> created', mostly because of silly typos by me when editing the <br>> 'files.custom' (or whatever its called) file and trying to remove <br>> redundant dirs from the 'root' dir on the server...<br><br>Just to clarify.. I took the image from a fully functioning FC6<br>frontend, so, yes, X worked then. :) You're probably right that the<br>problem is with the pivot-root or mounting of the individual files over<br>top of the root filesystem. The "/.snapshot" directory itself is<br>getting mounted, but none of the files are being overlayed.<br><br>The only noise it generates is in regard to it being unable to write to<br>fstab.<br><br>I guess I will have to dig in to that disklessrc startup script to
see<br>where it might be failing..<br><br>-Rich<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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