docs are missing or have faulty info for netboot process. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. just follow the diskless node how to verbatim 2. dont use prior knowledge of the diskless how to in the alt install docs 3. Actual Results: ok first error i would get is a nfs fails to mount pre init-scripts, resulting in a kernel panic. after that error was resolved i got a "cannot mount root readd/write" error Expected Results: a login prompt on a diskless node Server: x86_64(amd64) Node: i486 pentium-m there are no crossdev issues ok first error i would get is a nfs fails to mount pre init-scripts, resulting in a kernel panic. i fixed this by changing pxelinux.cfg/default from the recommended config of DEFAULT /bzImage APPEND ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=master_ip:/diskless/node_ip after browsing a few of the wikis, and the site docs, i came accross this solution remerging grub with USE=netboot", and copied pxegrub and grub.lst to the nodes /boot. and changing the above settings to default gentoo prompt 1 timeout 10 label gentoo kernel /andromeda/bzImage append ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.110:/data/nodes/andromeda this got me past the the nfs mounting issue. before its asked, i did verify nfs support in both kernels. the second issue that arose was a problem with mountingthe root filesystem, it couldnt be mounted as read/write. after browsing through wikis i found a difference in the fstab configs, the docs suggest master:/diskless/192.168.1.21 / nfs sync,hard,intr,rw,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0 the other how to suggested i try 192.168.1.110:/diskleess/node / nfs defaults,sync,nolock 0 0 that got me around the fs not bein able to mount read write ill also point out i referenced http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml it explains the fsck problem thats not mentioned in the diskless nodes with /fastboot(which didnt fix the mount error). ive tried finding the wiki page i used with no luck.
It's unclear exactly what the suggested fix is for our documentation. Do you have a specific addition to put in a specific place or code listing?
