Re: Debian Lenny NFS root woes!

2008-05-25 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Problem solved! Turns out I was missing some basic steps: From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/OnNFSDriveWithLocalBoot I just needed to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to change BOOT=local to BOOT=nfs and then regenerate the initramfs image with update-initramfs -k al

Debian Lenny NFS root woes!

2008-05-25 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
I'd like my machine to boot off a NAS box across the network, using NFS for the root file system. Since the box does not support tftp, I've installed a small flash drive for it to boot off and use as /boot. Following the instructions at http://myrddin.org/howto/debian-kernel-recompiling/ I've