diskless fc6

[Chris Rouch]

On 1/19/07, Chris Rouch <chris.rouch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have diskless booting working with fc6 and could tell me
> what they did to get it to work?
>
> I have a diskless via epia M10K box, booting an fc4 image. Yesterday I
> upgraded the server it boots from from fc4 to fc6, reran
> system-config-netboot and successfully got it to boot as it had
> before, i.e. an fc4 image loaded over nfs.
>
> I then tried to create an fc6 boot image. I installed fc6 on a third
> machine and copied the files as described in the howto (and the
> system-config-netboot dialog). I changed the properties of the
> diskless box to use the fc6 image. This begins to boot, but then gets
> a kernel panic. The messages I see are like this:
>
> Ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0
> time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed
> EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device
> grow-buffers: requested out-of-range block 10446744071562067960 for device ram0
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=ram0, iso_blknum=17 block=2147483618
> No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext2 iso9660
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable  to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
>
> (the above was hand copied from a screenshot, so there may be typos)
>

Adding "ramdisk_blocksize=1024" to the kernel command line gets me
past this speed bump, but then nfs fails to mount the image.

Chris