Re: Root-NFS: No NFS Server available...

[Barton Hodges <barton@gcmcomputers.com>]

Hello once again :)

Ken Yap wrote:
> 
> >"Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up."
> >"VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy."
> 
> Somehow your server is not serving or the client is not connecting. Check
> the logs. Portmap running? Client permitted in /etc/hosts.allow?

No, I'm positive that I *did not* put the client ip in /etc/hosts.allow.
That might be part of the problem.  Is this required?

>>And: You dont need bootp in the kernel. The bootrom does this.

>Strictly speaking no since you can hardwire all paths needed, but by
>configuring bootp into the kernel you can find out automatically which
>NFS server and path to use.

This might be my other problem.  When I recompiled, I remembered seeing
that I did not need bootp compiled in, and thought that might have
been contributing to my troubles, so I left it out.

I did find, that if I passed command line parameters to mknbi-linux
telling it where the root fs location was, then it got further than it
had before.

Now, I am receiving a "RPC call returned error 111" message, but
I have not tried recompiling with bootp installed yet.

I am still receiving this message:

> >"IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration information."
> 
> Sounds like your bootpd or dhcpd doesn't provide all the info required.
> Did you fill in all the fields?

here is my /etc/dhcpd.conf:

option domain-name "gamehendge.com";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.241.1;
option broadcast-address 192.168.241.255;
use-host-decl-names on;
subnet 192.168.241.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
        filename "/tftpdir/vmlinuz.xterm";
        host xterm {
                hardware ethernet 08:00:2B:B7:F3:80;
                fixed-address 192.168.241.3;
                filename "/tftpdir/vmlinuz.xterm";
        }
}

Is there anything obvious that I am doing wrong here?

Thanks again for helping me set this thing up.  I can taste success :)

Barton Hodges
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