Solved: network install failed with no useful error

From: John P. Looney (valen@tuatha.org)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 05:55:45 EDT


 A few people had me look at the reason why the machines would hang with:

whoami: no domain name

 after the kernel booted. It turned out it was a rather simple problem.

 I had set /export/home/installs/ as where the files for jumpstarting
resided. /export/home was exported with root_squash, which messed up the
clients, which expected to be able to mount their root filesystems as
root. Valtteri Vuorikoski suggested using snoop on the install server to
see what was going on during the TFTP phase, and afterwards, it showed
lots of NFS permissions problems, which led me to look in that direction.

 Other people suggested various solutions that were not required in my
case:
    NFS share wouldn't match that in /etc/bootparams
    NFS hang (restart NFS to verify)

John
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