2.e Netbooting on Cobalt Servers: - The Docs tell to place the bootimage in /nfsroot. When trying a netboot the cobalt loader looks into /nfsroot/boot, so there should be either a link from boot to . In /nfsroot or vmlinux_raq-2800.gz has to reside in /nfsroot/boot. - You docs tell to rename the netboot image to gentoo-cobalt.img.gz, but in the Colo commands it tells "nfs 10.0.0.254 /nfsroot gentoo.img.gz" 10.b - The handbook tells about creating /boot/vmlinux.gz from the colo But RAQ2 expects a vmlinux_raq-2800.gz Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
(In reply to comment #0) > 2.e Netbooting on Cobalt Servers: > - The Docs tell to place the bootimage in /nfsroot. > When trying a netboot the cobalt loader looks into /nfsroot/boot, so there > should be either a link from boot to . In /nfsroot or vmlinux_raq-2800.gz has > to reside in /nfsroot/boot. Yep, it does actually tell users to do this -- but it's not clear since the note about the RaQ1 was added in. In actual fact, the plan will be to replace the traditional netboot images with a tarball that contains the kernel image, CoLo, boot script and necessary symlinks. > - You docs tell to rename the netboot image to gentoo-cobalt.img.gz, but in > the Colo commands it tells "nfs 10.0.0.254 /nfsroot gentoo.img.gz" Yeah, a minor oversight -- again, the ideal will be to use a boot script packaged with the kernel and bootloader. > 10.b > - The handbook tells about creating /boot/vmlinux.gz from the colo > But RAQ2 expects a vmlinux_raq-2800.gz As does the Qube2, however I've found vmlinux.gz works too. I haven't heard issues with people using vmlinux.gz rather than vmlinux_raq-2800.gz. But a few suggestions to symlink can't hurt I guess. :-) I'll look into it.
Okay, I've produced new netboot images, which fix this issue: http://dev.gentoo.org/~redhatter/mips/cobalt/netboots These are tarballs that get extracted into / (creating the /nfsroot dir) with CoLo, and all necessary symlinks. The handbook has been updated (in my local repository -- see URL above) to reflect this. These changes will be sent upstream shortly, once they are finalised.
