rpi4 network boot

[Klaus Küchemann]

> Am 07.02.2021 um 20:19 schrieb Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>:
> 
> 
> I believe he is asking you to verify that the fstab file for the _client_ (aka the diskless machine your'e trying to boot) is correct. That file exists as
> ${NFSROOTDIR}/etc/fstab  on the boot server.
> 
> HTH
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> Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>
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Yes, the fstab-setup is important…... but then I realized Matthew`s boot environment :
He has u-boot sitting on the pxe-Server, whereas the eeprom was flashed for completely diskless netboot 
as a requirement .
With that setup in fact we will end up in n infinite loop of an 'genet0: gen_intr2‘ -console-output,
regardless of fstab or whatever configuration elsewhere I tried. 

I have now refreshed the eeprom to it’s default(where diskless pxe-boot is disabled )
And again successfully net-booted (14_current in this case) :

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=5917

Since netboot from u-boot on the uSD requiresdonly 1 command by hand (load net0:/boot/kernel/kernel
)(+ command :’boot’) and there’s no problem with the genet-driver I guess that 
It’s an issue of the pxe-flashed eeprom where we don’t yet know exactly what happens.


So for now I guess netboot from uSD is a painless and well working setup,
while to be honest:
I don’t remember exactly at the moment how I figured to get it to work after trials&errors  :-) Ha Ha 
But I’ll leave the uSD untouched or copy the folder to have a point for a tutorial or so if someone is interested in.

Regards

K.