Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: NFSROOT with NFS Version 3 | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:34:40 -0500 |
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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
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