[ale] NFS ROOT

[Ken Nagorski]

Hi there,

What happens when you mount this partition on an already running box via
NFS? 

Also... What kernel are you using? And what version of NFS tools. 

Thank you
Ken

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, jeff tillotson wrote:

> 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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