OK, the saga continues. We are getting close here, I am sure. I am getting a TFTP boot and a NFS root file system.
One serious issue J I cannot log in! Both debian and root users fail. The rfs is debain Jessie and I’ve cleared any root password stuff from /etc/shadow
jevans@nfshost# cat bone/rootfs/etc/shadow
root::16595:0:99999:7:::
debian::16595:0:99999:7:::
Any ideas?
FWIW Mounting the file system from the flasher image worked immediately once nfs-common was installed.
uname -a
Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone70 #1 SMP Fri Jan 23 02:15:42 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux
attempt to mount the exported NFS rfs to check it works
root@beaglebone:~# ls -als /mnt/nfs
total 8
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 1 21:28 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 1 21:28 …
check what is exported from the main workstation
root@beaglebone:~# showmount -e debi7
Export list for debi7:
/home/jevans/bone/rootfs *
now mount the drive
root@beaglebone:~# mount -t nfs debi7:/home/jevans/bone/rootfs /mnt/nfs
and get a listing. All looks good
root@beaglebone:~# ls /mnt/nfs
am335x-boneblack.dtb dtbs media root sys var
bin etc mnt run tmp vmlinuz-4.1.0-bone9
boot home opt sbin uEnv.txt
dev lib proc srv usr
Board also automounts exported NFS drive if added to etc/fstab thus:
UUID=ab728192-ba33-4dfb-b3ef-ae05824502c8 / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs defaults 0 0
192.168.1.115:/home/jevans/bone/rootfs /mnt/nfs nfs defaults 0 0