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I originally posted this in gentoo-user. I don't normally like to cross post |
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but I haven't received a response yet, so I thought the devs would have more |
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insight into these problems. Hopefully you'll tell me to change permissions |
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on some file and it'll work :) .... |
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I'm having trouble setting up a diskless Gentoo client. I have a Gentoo server |
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that will serve the root filesystem via NFS. The client's root has been setup |
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using a stage1 tarball and going through the bootstrap, etc. process to get |
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xfree merged. (The client will only provide an XDM login into the server so I |
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don't need a lot of packages). |
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I've gotten far in the process: A correct kernel with NFS root support has |
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been setup. I've used the mknbi program to create a bootable network image. I |
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have a floppy disk that will grab the kernel from the server using the |
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etherboot package. A tftp server is setup correctly to server the kernel. The |
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kernel boots, finds the nfs server and mounts the correct filesystem. It does |
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go through the boot sequence. I have modified /sbin/rc to create /etc, /var , |
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/tmp and /root on tmpfs and copy the /etc and /var files from the root |
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filesystem into the temporary copy. I am mounting /mnt/.etc-tmpfs to tmpfs, |
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copying the files and then using mount -o bind to mount /mnt/.etc-tmpfs to |
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/etc. Same with /var. /tmp and /root is directly mounted to tmpfs with no |
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files in them. I have disabled the filesystem checks as well. |
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The boot sequence works fine until I get the init level 3. I only have the |
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"local" service starting and it completes fine (there is nothing in |
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/etc/conf.d/local.start so it does nothing). When init tries to start agetty |
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then the system hangs (no response to the keyboard, not VC switch). I've |
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tried to change init to start /bin/login instead and it runs, but when I type |
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in the user/pass it hangs as well. I changed to use "/bin/su - --login" |
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instead of agetty and I can login and issue commands successfully, etc but I |
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would like to get agetty working correctly. |
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I also tried getting the X Server to start. The client has an nvidia card. I |
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have successfully installed Gentoo to a hard drive on this machine and it |
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works without trouble. I tried xf86cfg without an XF86Config file, but it |
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blanked the screen and locked up the machine. I tried using a VESA |
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configuration but it says no display modes are available. I used an nvidia |
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configuration but it hangs the machine. |
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I think there is some basic problem here, not specific to xfree, since agetty |
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hangs and login (after typing user/pass) hangs. I tried to mount the root |
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filesystem rw and not use /etc, /var, /tmp and /root in RAM, no change. |
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I am using kernel gentoo-sources-2.4.19-r9. Is there a known bug in the kernel |
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or perhaps devfs? Should I not being using devfs with /dev on nfs? I can move |
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a copy of /dev to a tmpfs if necessary, that's about the only thing I haven't |
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tried. |
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Any help is greatly appreicated. |
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Thanks. |
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Pat Double, double@×××××××××.com |
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"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." |
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