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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:49:54 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: linux hangs during boot up
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the wiki instructions you want to follow are the ones under "netbooting
linux on a bobcat"

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:12:07 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> As the wiki page says:
> 
> cd cougar/linux/pkg-tools
> sudo ./mk-mipsel-deb-rootfs
> This will create the tree /var/chroot/etch-mipsel on your local disk.
> From this point you can either export this tree as an NFS share or use
> rsync -vauH to copy it to an exported directory. 
> 
> [edit]Installing Kernel and Kernel Modules 
> You need to install the kernel modules in your [NFS] root directory.
> This requires that you have one set up already! See section: Creating
> a Root filesystem. 
> 
> $ make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=<path-to-NFS-root-directory> modules_install
> For instance, the NFS root directory for one of my bobcats is on my
> workstation in /var/nfsroot/bobcat, hence the command would be make
> INSTALL_MOD_PATH=/var/nfsroot/bobcat modules_install for me. Yours
> will be different! Make sure you give the right directory, or you will
> install kernel modules in some crazy place. 
> 
> copy vmlinux.bin to your tftp server, and then follow the instructions
> on netbooting linux on a bobcat. 
> [edit]Booting for the First Time Your Newly Created NFS Root
> (Finishing the Install) 
> Note: This section is preliminary. Not all of this has been thoroughly
> tested. 
> 
> The first time your filer boots from a newly created NFS Root
> partition run the following command on the filer: 
> 
> /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:10 PM
> To: Maxim Kozlovsky
> Subject: Re: linux hangs during boot up
> 
> Where did you get the root filesystem?
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:24:19 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
> <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
> > IP-Config: Complete:
> >       device=eth0, addr=10.2.204.1, mask=255.255.0.0, gw=10.2.0.1,
> >      host=eng131, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
> >      bootserver=10.0.0.23, rootserver=10.0.0.23, rootpath=
> > Looking up port of RPC 100003/3 on 10.0.0.23
> > Looking up port of RPC 100005/3 on 10.0.0.23
> > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 104k freed
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> > 
> > 
> > The kernel was built from what is currently checked in. The command
> > line was the following:
> > 
> > CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyS0,57600n8 console=ttyMM0,57600n8
> > root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.23:/var/nfsroot/max,v3,tcp
> > ip=10.2.204.1:10.0.0.23:10.2.0.1:255.255.0.0:eng131:eth0:none -s"
> > 
> > Is there some step that I missed?
> > 
