System Hangs at nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP

Ok, Booting goes good until it gets to nfs_boot:
trying DHCP/BOOTP.  I've used Ethereal to see what is
going on, and the last packet sent is an NFS Read
Reply from loading the kernel.  My thought is that I
can't run MAKEDEV on my host system (Red Hat FC3).  Is
this the case??  Has anyone else had this problem?? 
I've had it up and running before, after having the
same problem, but for the life of me, I can't figure
out what I did to fix it...

Running a NeXTstation with 20MB ram...

Dustin Smous