Hi all,
I'm having problems attempting to network-boot a Linux box
from my ES40 TU64 V5.0a PK1. The booting machine fails to mount
its root filesystem, which actually lives on one of the ES40
disks and is exported via NFS.
(I'm doing this using the dhcp distribution from the ISC because
I couldnt get joind to even respond to a request for an ip address)
The network-booted box stops when it tries to mount its root
filesystem. The error message is:
call_verify: server requires stronger authentication
Root-NFS: Server returned error -13 while mounting /tftpboot/ProX/prox-2
(Error -13 is permission-denied)
I've tried:
1. Setting the export mode on this file to root=0
No difference.
2. Running mountd on the Alpha with no options set
No difference.
3. Booting the network-bootable machine from another Linux box.
It then works.
4. Mounting /tftpboot/ProX/prox-2 on the network-booted box when booted
up as in 3. The mount succeeds.
In fact the network-boot succeeds if I just have the Linux-box's
root partition on another Linux machine, but keep its /usr partition
on the ES40.
I get no errors logged in /var/adm/syslog.dated/current/daemon.log.
Should mountd log failed mount-attempts there? I get nothing logged
if I force an error by deliberately trying to mount a non-existent directory.
My dhcpd.conf is:
option domain-name-servers 131.111.85.23;
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 131.111.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0
{
host prox-2
{
hardware ethernet 00:90:05:DF:03:EE;
fixed-address 131.111.26.29;
option host-name "prox-2";
option domain-name "mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk";
filename "/tftpboot/ProX/vmlinuz_rh7-vga.net";
option root-path "/tftpboot/ProX/prox-2";
}
}
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Terry.
Terry Horsnell (tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
I.T. Manager
Medical Research Council
Lab of Molecular Biology
Hills Road
CAMBRIDGE CB2 2QH
U.K.
Phone: +44 (0)1223 248011
Fax: +44 (0)1223 213556
Received on Wed Jul 11 2001 - 18:58:53 NZST