Alpine-linux netboot - no block devices found
by platypo from LinuxQuestions.org on (#597F6)
I posted a while ago about setting up a PXE-boot-enviroment for an old laptop. Unfortunately i am still stuck whith the Alpinelinux-Netboot-Files from Alpinelinux.org and the following configuration:
tftproot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
Code:PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 10
default alpine
LABEL alpine
LINUX image/vmlinuz-lts
INITRD image/initramfs-lts
APPEND ip=dhcp alpine_repo=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main modloop=my.server.ip.here://image/initramfs-ltsSo kernel and initramfs from the alpine-netboot-package are in tftproot/image/ and i chose the rolling repo for alpine. I am not sure about the modloop-parameter but otherwise i successfully booted into alpine-linux and the basic setup. The only thing that's problematic after boot: i have no block devices in /dev nor in /sys/class/block except ram0-9. So there is no way to install alpinelinux to any of the laptops hard drives.
I have tested the harddrive on another machine and it worked. I have tested with slackware-pxe-setup as in here with no problems finding the partitions of the laptops HD after netboot.
My simple questions are: am i overseeing something basic about alpine linux?
Are there any known issues with harddrives?
Is my setup faulty or missing something essential?
TIA
tftproot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
Code:PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 10
default alpine
LABEL alpine
LINUX image/vmlinuz-lts
INITRD image/initramfs-lts
APPEND ip=dhcp alpine_repo=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main modloop=my.server.ip.here://image/initramfs-ltsSo kernel and initramfs from the alpine-netboot-package are in tftproot/image/ and i chose the rolling repo for alpine. I am not sure about the modloop-parameter but otherwise i successfully booted into alpine-linux and the basic setup. The only thing that's problematic after boot: i have no block devices in /dev nor in /sys/class/block except ram0-9. So there is no way to install alpinelinux to any of the laptops hard drives.
I have tested the harddrive on another machine and it worked. I have tested with slackware-pxe-setup as in here with no problems finding the partitions of the laptops HD after netboot.
My simple questions are: am i overseeing something basic about alpine linux?
Are there any known issues with harddrives?
Is my setup faulty or missing something essential?
TIA