Re: Mounting Root on NFS problem (kernel 2.4.18)

[Petr Olivka <petr.olivka@vsb.cz>]

I am using options "-i server_address" and work fine with bootp.

my command line:

mknbi-linux -x -k bzImage -o bzImage.img -l eom -i 192.168.1.2 -a "rw"

poli

On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:

>
>
> Hi:
>
> I'm new to this mailing list, so please excuse me if this question has been
> asked before.  Is there a searchable archive of the mailing list?
>
> Anyway, I've had success in booting a diskless client via DHCP using
> kernel 2.2.14 patched with nfs-swap and supermount, and root mounted on NFS
> for the client side.
>
> But, when upgrading to kernel 2.4.18 and configuring the kernel for diskless
> booting the same way as before, a problem appeared while booting complaining
> that it couldn't mount root on NFS since no NFS server was available, and it
> gave up immediately asking to insert a floppy as an alternative mount point.
>
> But NFS server is available since switching to kernel 2.2.14 the booting up
> works immediately without any changes done to the boot server.  Is there
> something that I missed or is it a known and already solved problem with
> kernel 2.4.18 ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Napi
>
> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/napi.html
>
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