On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:02 PM, clemens at dwf.com wrote: > Im trying to get a diskless boot set up under CentOS 5.2, and having > no luck > at all. > > I am to the point of running system-config-netboot, and whatever > information > I put in, I get an error message. > > Responding to the 2nd button on the first popup, which asks for NFS > info, > I put in the IP address of the current machine (the machine that > will hold > the boot images for the diskless machine) and the root directory for > the > diskless machine, viz > > /diskless/i386/CentOS5.2/root > > Which has a copy of my root file system, and in particular has a /boot > subdirectory. When hitting FORWARD, I get the error message: > > The diskless subdirectory must be NFS exported > and contain a boot subdirectory. > > Now Ive checked, vsftpd is running, nfs is running, and the above > directory > (and others) are in the /etc/exports file. > > I did this several years ago under Fedora, and dont remember having > problems > like this. Has ANYONE done this recently, and do you remember what > you had > to do??? I would REALLY like to exchange some e-mail with you. > It would be nice if there was an example somewhere. > > -- > Reg.Clemens > reg at dwf.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I remember getting something similar when the file and directory permissions were not set properly (and/or export permissions). So even when the boot directory exists, correct permissions to view or use it were not set properly. I didnt track down any information regarding the exact settings required for diskless boot, however when I copied the nfs export to a new export and chmod to world readable, then i got past the gui errors. I stepped back, adjusted the boot and then got the diskless client booting, however there were a few other things regarding permissions, home directories, and whatnot that also caused failure to boot, or get x started. Ill check out the wiki and see if anyone posted the information for file permissions, would be nice to get this going again.' Trevor