[gentoo-user] Re: pxe boot + nfs mountpoints

[James <jtp@nc.rr.com>]

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM, James<jtp@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Okay, I've gotten a little further by moving some of the runscripts to
> /etc/runlevel/boot.
>
> I still, however, can't seem to get /usr/ nfs mounted before some of
> the boot runlevel daemons kick off (like keymap, etc.).
>
> I think part of the problem is I'm using OpenRC. Any way on forcing
> netmount init script to kick off before everything else?
>
> -j
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, James<jtp@nc.rr.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I am having a weird problem and I'm going nuts trying to figure out
>> what may be going wrong.
>>
>> I've followed the "Diskless Nodes" document[1] on the g.o website. So
>> far my machine will PXE boot and mount root partition without any
>> issues.
>>
>> The diskless client, however, does *not* mount the non-root partitions
>> (such as /opt, /usr, etc.). This results in a system with no /usr
>> partition and a ton of my tools missing. ;)
>>
>> If I log into the crippled system, however, I can manually mount /usr
>> and /opt. Things work better at that point.
>>
>> Here's the fstab file inside of /diskless/gentoo/etc/:
>>
>> 10.1.1.5:/diskless/gentoo    /         nfs
>> sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    0 0
>> 10.1.1.5:/opt                /opt      nfs
>> sync,hard,intr,ro,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    0 0
>> 10.1.1.5:/usr                /usr      nfs
>> sync,hard,intr,ro,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    0 0
>> 10.1.1.5:/home               /home     nfs
>> sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192    0 0
>> none                            /proc     proc    defaults
>>                             0 0
>>
>> -----
>>
>> /etc/exports is as follows:
>>
>> /pxe/diskless/gentoo    *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check)
>> /opt                    *(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check)
>> /usr                    *(sync,ro,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check)
>> /home                   *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check)
>> /var/log                *(sync,rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash,no_subtree_check)
>>
>> Any thoughts on why these partitions are not mounting automatically?
>> I've even appended "auto" to the fstab mountpoints with no success.
>>
>> Help greatly appreciated. :)
>>
>> -j
>>
>> 1 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
>>
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