[ale] NFS ROOT

[jeff tillotson]

I am at wits end.  I have tried everything I can think of but still can not get a sysem to boot with an nfs 
root.  The etherboot floppy works fine.  I get a IP address fine, I can start the correct kernel just fine but 
I fail to complete the boot.  I don't get an error it just freezes after the "Freeing unused kernel memory" 
message.  

The nfs root point looks like:
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 17 10:41 bin
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       692084 Sep  4 16:45 bzImage
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       697344 Sep  4 18:01 bzImage.out
drwxr-xr-x   14 root     root        81920 Sep  4 11:26 dev
drwxr-xr-x   38 root     root         4096 Sep  4 18:10 etc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Sep  4 18:04 fastboot
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 18:03 home
drwxr-xr-x    7 root     root         4096 Aug 17 10:41 lib
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 18:03 mnt
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 18:03 proc
drwxr-x---   11 root     root         4096 Sep  4 11:27 root
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug 17 10:41 sbin
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 18:04 tmp
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep  4 18:04 usr
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root         4096 Jul 10 01:13 var

I create the boot image with this command

/homes/jefft/etherboot/mknbi-1.2/mknbi --target=linux --format=elf 
--rootdir=172.17.1.96:/tftpboot/clusterboot --rootmode=rw 
--ip=172.17.1.120:172.17.1.96::255.255.255.0:test:eth0: --append=init=/sbin/init --out bzImage.out 
bzImage 

Any assistance would be great!

Thanks,
Jeff

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