Problem with iPXE and AoE

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mcb30 Wrote:That may not be enough. AoE support needs to be included within the initrd, otherwise the system won't be able to connect to its own root filesystem. (Consider what happens once the kernel starts up: it doesn't help that aoe.ko is available in /lib/modules since /lib is not accessible until the root filesystem has been mounted, and the root filesystem is on an AoE disk.)

I see. Well, I will post exactly what I have just done to check (booting the client from the hard disk out of which I made the image)

Code:

mkdir /var/tmp/initrd && cp /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 /var/tmp/initrd
cd /var/tmp/initrd && mv initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686 initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686.gz
gunzip initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686.gz && mkdir unpacked && cd unpacked
cpio -id < ../initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
cd /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/block
ls -laR aoe

This is the result:

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4096 sep 19 09:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4096 sep 19 09:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32760 sep 19 09:18 aoe.ko

Doesn't this mean that the required kernel module is in place?

This is the content of /conf/initramfs.conf :

Code:

MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
BOOT=local
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto

This is the content of /config/modules :

Code:

unix

And this is the content of /conf/conf.d/resume :

Code:

RESUME=UUID=21a0e5ba-e084-4937-84d9-bf737462e974

Do you see any problem? What other thing do I need to check? (I will try to make a packet capture in a while and post results)