[Pkg-ltsp-devel] problem - 'waiting for root file system'

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 03:00:09PM +0530, Jyothi rao wrote:
>  I am a user of ltsp.  I installed ltsp-server and used.  initially when the
> client was booted, the client got the dhcp
> acknowledgement and did all booting properly, but when the nfs mounting was to
> happen.
> the system just waited with a message 'waiting for root file system' and then
> after some
> five minutes, it dropped to a shell saying that '/dev/nfs' was not found.
> I have found the reason for the problem and thought of sharing it

what version of ltsp-server were you using? version of ltsp-client and
initramfs-tools?

dpkg -l ltsp-server
chroot /opt/ltsp/i386 dpkg -l ltsp-client initramfs-tools
(or some location for your chroot for a different architecture)

please consider using the package "reportbug" to report bugs, as it will
help collect relevent information like version.

> The problem was that, the scripts that built the ltsp client, expected an
> argument boot=nfs.
> which need to passed from the pxelinux.cfg's default file.
> 
> In the 'default' file of the pxelinux.cfg directory, the following argument
> needs to be appended.
> boot=nfs.

this shouldn't be necessary with any version of the ltsp packages.
current version (0.93debian1) sets this parameter with a configuration
snippet for initramfs-tools, and older versions should have done a tweak
which configured initramfs-tools to set this argument (though i suspect
some older versions were maybe buggy).

live well,
  vagrant