Q: I'm booting a NetBoot client — or, rather, trying to. But it keeps looping through the reboot, getting only as far as allocating a swapfile. What's wrong?\
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A: One cause of this could be that the client's private partition is not exported correctly. The private partition must be exported with root access for the client. Even if
\b /etc/exports
\b0 shows a proper entry, if a parent directory of the client's private partition is a) on the same filesystem, and b) exported
\i without
\i0 root access for the client, then the client's private partition will not be exported with root access for the client.\
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A situation where this will occur readily is if you're trying to use a machine with one partition on the disk as the NetBoot server. This is
\i not
\i0 a supported configuration. In this situation, the
If you want to leave the explicit lines for the two clients' partitions that will do no harm, and might help avoid a problem if you ever set things up on a two-partition disk.\