[RndTbl] REQ: Volunteer of a Clonezilla Guru for one day (maybe less)

[Sean Walberg]

Check your syslogs on the nfs server. Might be getting a permission
error somewhere.

Sean



On 2011-04-10, at 6:53 AM, Robert Dyck <rbdyck2 at shaw.ca> wrote:

> What we're seeing: We use either a floppy with gPXE to simulate network
> boot, or a CD with gPXE, or a few machines can be configured in BIOS to do a
> real network boot. The client displays that it does connect to the
> Clonezilla server, it does go through DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot for Linux)
> so it appears the TFTP process works. We do get a brief text menu that shows
> it will attempt to boot into Clonezilla client, then a series of messages
> scroll off the display indicating Linux start-up. However, we get a message
> that appears to say something about failure to mount a file system. The
> exact problem isn't clear since the messages scroll off the client machine's
> screen too quickly to read before it halts. We do have a Linux machine that
> acts as our router, but it has it's DHCP stack configured to point to the
> Clonezilla server ("next server" and "filename" parameters set in
> dhcpd.conf). Since we do get DRBL messages complete with a menu indicating
> it tries to start Clonezilla client, it shouldn't be the router. We have
> checked that NFS is running on the Clonezilla server. Help.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Dyck
>
> --- Mike pfaiffer wrote:
>>    Lindsay (the CLL supervisor) has asked if I could ask
>> the folks at the MUUG if there is anyone in the club with
>> Clonezilla experience who could show up for a Friday to go
>> over our set up and see what we are missing. There are two of
>> us working on the server and between the two of us we can
>> almost get it working consistently. What we are doing should
>> work (and did work for six machines a month ago). So far it
>> looks like the machines are doing a diskless boot into Linux
>> without installing the disk image. Rob may have more
>> information than this. When it works it works like a champ.
>> When it doesn't, we don't have a clue why... At least one of
>> the five of us will be at Tuesdays meeting...
>>
>>                Later
>>                Mike
>
>
>
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