Re: Diskless Boot

Hi David.

I'll answer your question off-list to keep the noise level down.  This
is a linux systems administration question.


>> I subscribed for the site but am not sure that my confirmation response came
>> through.
>> 
>> I am running NFSd on an NT box exporting some drives and trying to boot a
>> diskless system.
>> 
>> If I boot the board with nfsroot set to our stand NFS server, it comes up
>> and I can mount the NT box with
>> 
>> mount 10.64.16.239:/target /mnt/bob
>> 
>> But if I set the bootline as follows:
>> 
>> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/nfs
>> nfsroot=10.64.17.239/target
>> ip=172.16.16.185:10.64.17.239:172.16.16.1:255.255.255.0::eth2:off
>> 
>> It will not connect with message:
>> 
>> IP-Config: Complete:
>>       device=eth2, addr=172.16.16.185, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=172.16.16.1,
>>      host=172.16.16.185, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
>>      bootserver=10.64.17.239, rootserver=10.64.17.239, rootpath=
>> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.64.17.239
>> Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 10.64.17.239
>> Root-NFS: Server returned error -13 while mounting 10.64.17.239/target
>> 
>> 
>> My net.cfg is:
>> 
>> ;; Save this file as nfs.cfg after appropriate editing.
>> 
>> (
>>  (*nfslocaluid* 0) 
>>  (*nfslocalgid* 0)
>>  (*nfsdebug* 1)
>>  (*nfs-rw-uids* 0)
>>  (*nfslocalumask* #o000)
>>  (*exports* (("/target" "c:/nfsserv/share/target")
>>              ("/d" "d:/")))
>>  (*hosts-allow* nil)
>>  (*hosts-deny* nil)
>>  (*use-system-portmapper* nil)
>> )
>> 
>> 
>> Am I doing something wrong in the bootline?
>> 
>> David F. Jenkins
>> Artesyn Communications Products
>> 608.826.8458 
>> [email protected]