[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 NFS root filesystem HOWTO

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > You can also test TFTP using the `tftp' command.
> > 
> > You may want to emphasize the importance of the `-s' option for tftpd. On my
> > Debian server (which already was being used for TFTP), it wasn't enabled by
> > default.
> 
> 
> I added something here, let me know if it meets with what you expect.

Actually I meant that you can test tftp from another machine too, using the
tftp command (if you allow the other machine to connect, of course).

I didn't know tftp took that many command line parameters, and indeed, at
least the Debian and CentOS (Red Hat clone) versions don't understand your
sample command line.  So probably these are a feature of the kboot tftp variant
only.

s/when seting up/when setting up/

> > BTW, when I copied my FC5 install from hard disk to my NFS server, I didn't
> > manage to boot from it: it always hung when starting udev.  This problem is not
> > present in the (older) FC5 NFS root I copied from you. That one worked fine.
> 
> 
> I did some fixups to that (my) fs to support NFS use.  It could be you need
> to fix the PS3's remote fstab file:
> 
> +++ /target/ps3/etc/fstab
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> +/dev/nfs                /                       rootfs  defaults        0 0
> 
> and/or remove the eth0 config file, since the startup scripts in some distros (FC)
> will try to re-initialize the interface, which then disconnects the root fs.
> 
> For FC5, this is /target/ps3/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Thanks, I'll give them a try.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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