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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I'll add some notes regarding this to the HOWTO.  If you try these, let me know
> if they work.

Thanks! Removing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 fixed the hang when
starting udev.

Updating /etc/fstab fixed the incorrect output of e.g. `df' and `mount', which
showed the wrong root file system.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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