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Mummelnase
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 Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:33 am Post subject: NFS-root: remount too late, booting fails |
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Hi everyone,
I just installed a machine that gets it's / from a NFS server.
The kernel get's booted by Grub from a small Flash:
| Code: | | kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.26-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.10.10:/www ip=192.168.10.100:192.168.10.10::255.255.255.0:alpha2nas:eth1:off |
This works fine, but when the services get initialised, I just get "read only filesystem" messages.
Changing the line for root in /etc/fstab to
| Code: | | 192.168.10.10:/www / nfs auto,remount,nolock,rw 0 0 |
didn't help since it's too late already when this file is used.
I kind of fixed this problem for now by adding
| Code: | | mount -n -o remount,rw - |
to /etc/init.d/checkroot at the first line of start(), the system boots just fine with that.
Since I expect this dirty workaround is in danger to be reverted with an update ti the init-files I'd rather solve this problem conforming to gentoo-standards.
Can onyone help me with this? |
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richard.scott
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Location: Oxfordshire, UK
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: |
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If your doing what I think your doing then this bug report will help:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246759
its a bug in /usr/share/genkernel/generic/linuxrc
you'll need to edit this file before creating the initrd for your flash image. |
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Mummelnase
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for your reply.
By "flash" I meant a DOM sitting on IDE0, with grub installed and the kernel available to boot.
The kernel itself has compiled in the necessary filesystems, nfs, root on nfs, etc.
Booting as such from the NFS works fine, but the root-fs is initially mounted readonly, thus the init-processes can't write on / until it's remounted RW, which doesn't happen automatically.
I added the NFS-option "remount,rw" to the kernel options (see above), where it's being ignored, and to /etc/fstab, where it's too late in the init procedure.
Manually adding the line "mount -n -o remount,rw /" to /etc/init.d/checkroot helped, but I consider this as as an ugly workaround... |
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richard.scott
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'm booting a cd image via PXE and needed to tweak the linuxrc file to get it to work correctly for me.
Perhaps in your case you could tweak /usr/share/genkernel/generic/initrd.scripts as this is where the nfs root is mounted with the ro command.
trouble is I've just noticed this in /usr/share/genkernel/generic/ initrd.scripts:
| Code: | good_msg "Attempting to mount NFS root on ${NFSROOT}"
mount -t nfs -o ro,nolock,rsize=1024,wsize=1024 ${NFSROOT} ${NEW_ROOT}
if [ "$?" = '0' ]
then
REAL_ROOT="/dev/nfs"
else
bad_msg "NFS Mounting failed. Is the path correct ?"
fi
# FIXME: Need to start portmap and the other rpc daemons in
# order to remount rw.
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it seems your fudge is the best way of doing what you want? unless your able to start portmap this early in the boot process?
If you want to keep from editing the checkroot script then why not create a new init.d script that runs early in the boot process? |
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nativemad
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Joined: 30 Aug 2004
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Location: Switzerland
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| Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
depend() {
before *
}
start() {
local retval=0
if [[ ! -f /fastboot && -z ${CDBOOT} ]] \
&& ! is_net_fs / && ! is_union_fs / ; then
if touch -c / >& /dev/null ; then
ebegin "WtF... nothing to remount here!"
# mount -n -o remount,ro /
eend $?
fi |
This is the head of my /etc/init.d/checkroot.... look at the "ebegin" part! 
edit
--actually both "patches" are necessary atm, if you have a squash or similar on nfs... in plain nfs, you won't hit the linuxrc-bug!
Cheers
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