[2] [ale] NFS ROOT

[jeff tillotson]

Thanks for your response.  

If I try to mount the partition on a running system it works fine.  

The kernel the server is using is 2.4.8 and the client is booting a 2.4.8 client.  Both the client and server 
are using nfs version 3.  The nfs utils are from the RedHat RPM and is version 0.3.1-5.  


Ken Nagorski <kenn at pcintelligent.com> wrote on 9/5/01 4:32:12 PM:
>
>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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