Re: apparent failure to mount /root during boot of netboot image

2008-11-22 Thread Andrew Baumann
On Saturday 22 November 2008 07.23:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, to understand your setup: your live image "lives" in an nfs-mounted > directory, > "192.168.53.66:/local/debian-live/binary/live/filesystem.squashfs" or > thereabouts, right? > > I am not at my devel machine at the moment, but the

Re: apparent failure to mount /root during boot of netboot image

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Baumann
On Friday 21 November 2008 16.18:34 Andrew Baumann wrote: > I was able to manually mount the filesystem, but only after manually > loading (ie. modprobe) the loop and squashfs modules: Quick update: breaking in at the top, manually loading the loop and squashfs modules, and resuming, d

Re: apparent failure to mount /root during boot of netboot image

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Baumann
On Friday 21 November 2008 15.52:25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The directories are not "made", they just "appear" there by mounting a > file system. Seems this part fails. This happens in mountroot. Try > breaking at "bottom" (that's just after mountroot) and have a look what > is mounted. Your roo

Re: apparent failure to mount /root during boot of netboot image

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Baumann
Hi Tomas, On Friday 21 November 2008 12.54:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:46:33AM +0100, Andrew Baumann wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm trying to build a netboot debian-live image for amd64 systems with a > > serial console [...] > >

apparent failure to mount /root during boot of netboot image

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Baumann
Hi folks, I'm trying to build a netboot debian-live image for amd64 systems with a serial console. This is using live-helper 1.0.1-1 on an amd64 debian testing system. So far, I have the system booting the kernel ok, but failling during the initrd, as shown below. It seems that something has go