Re: Please Help: Root-NFS: No NFS Server

[Nicolas Lopez <kimo_sabe@atdot.org>]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 02:47:06AM -0500, Eric Dahnke wrote:
> 
> > > The documentation says that in 2.2 kernels the default is /tftpboot/<domain>, so my
> > > tftpboot contains the root file system under the dir /tftpboot/istreetlabs.com
> > >
> > > I have even tried the mknbi -x -k zImage -o vmlinuz -d /tftpboot/istreetlabs.com -i
> > > 192.168.30.3  -> same result No NFS server available.
> > >
> >   What doesn't your boottab line look like, and why don't you specify the
> > nfs root there?
> 
> I'm using DHCP, and dhcpd.conf looks like this:
> 
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;
> option broadcast-address 192.168.255.255;
> option routers 192.168.40.2;
> option domain-name-servers 216.99.225.30, 216.99.225.31;
> option netbios-name-servers 192.168.30.3;
> option domain-name "istreet.com";
> 
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
>         range 192.168.30.100 192.168.30.200;
>         host carolina1 {
>                 hardware ethernet 00:E0:29:58:98:86;
>                 fixed-address 192.168.30.71;
>                 filename "/tftpboot/vmlinuz";
>         }
> }
> 
> Can I specify nfsroot using DHCP?
> 
> Should I switch to bootp instead?
  Um, you don't really have the option.  The kernel only does bootp, not
dhcp.  So if you want to be able to autoconfigure and netboot a linux kernel
you pretty much have to use bootp(dhcpd's bootp should be fine).
  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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