On 09-Oct-99 at 16:56, Michael Hierweck (michael@hierweck.de) wrote: > The kernel get its IP via BOOTP. > After mounting the root-filesystem via nfs my diskless workstation > runs init. Init invokes the script rcS (Debian 2.1). > > The root-filesystem contains a minimal configuration > (some libs, init, mount, sh->bash, inittab, fstab, rcS). > > I inserted some mount commands at the bginning of rcS > so that the full /lib /bin and /sbin directories should be mounted. > > These mounts fail. > > Message: > > portmap server: localhost does not respond > > What is the reason for this behaviour? > I don't know about Debian, but usually (Suse, RH) NFS mounts need the loopback interface (lo) to be configured and the portmap daemon to be started before they can mount NFS disks. Thus for diskless operation one needs to insert an appropriate ifconfig + portmap before the mount call in rcS (and probably remove these calls for later runlevels). Norbert =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Norbert Paschedag <noe@ifh.de> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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