Mounting the Host File System

The NFS root file system to be mounted on the target is generated in the ChorusOS operating system build directory by the command:

% make root

This command populates the build directory with the root directory that contains binary and configuration files to be accessed by the target system.

At start-up, the C_INIT daemon reads the sysadm.ini configuration file and executes all the commands. See sysadm.ini(4CC) for more information. This configuration file may contain instructions to mount the root file system. For example:

% mount hostaddr:chorus_root_directory /

If there are no root file system mount instructions in your sysadm.ini file, you must mount the root file system explicitly from the shell:

% rsh target mount hostaddr:chorus_root_directory /

where target is the name of the target, or its IP address, hostaddr is the IP address of the NFS host in decimal form (for example 192.82.231.1), and chorus_root_directory is the path of the target root directory on the NFS host (for example /home/chorus/root).

When the mount of the root file system is successful, the C_INIT daemon displays, for example, the following message:

C_INIT: 192.82.231.1:/home/chorus/root mounted as root file system

The next message from C_INIT depends on whether the /etc/security file exists in the target root directory /home/chorus/root. If /etc/security exists, C_INIT displays:

C_INIT: system in secured mode

If /etc/security does not exist, C_INIT displays:

C_INIT: notice - system not in secured mode

You can check that the root file system is mounted using:

% rsh target mount

Make sure that the file system containing the /home/chorus/root directory can be accessed by NFS from the remote ChorusOS target.