From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:34:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164044080.5700.61.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061120173311.154e54a6.Christoph.Pleger@uni-dortmund.de>
On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 17:33 +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:57:16 -0500
> Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 12:07:50PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> > > Warning: Unable to open an initial console
> >
> > This usually means /dev/console doesn't exist. With many of
> > today's distributions, this means you didn't boot with a
> > initrd properly set up to run with your newly built kernel.
>
> The device /dev/console exists, but init/main.c tries to open it
> read-write. As the nfsroot is mounted read-only, /dev/console cannot be
> opened read-write.
Yes. NFSv3 has an ACCESS rpc call, which allows the client to request
the correct permissions from the server rather than relying on mode
bits.
IOW: this is definitely an intentional feature.
Cheers,
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-17 15:40 NFSROOT with NFS Version 3 Christoph Pleger
2006-11-17 16:20 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-11-20 11:07 ` Christoph Pleger
2006-11-20 13:57 ` Joe Korty
2006-11-20 16:33 ` Christoph Pleger
2006-11-20 17:34 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2006-11-20 18:06 ` Peter Staubach
2006-11-21 0:11 ` Bill Davidsen
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