nfs and initrd (instead of nfsroot)

[michip]

Hi,

I' am setting up a new diskless client with kernel 2.6 (mm-sources-2.6.6_rc3) and I need to emulate nfsroot. I am running some really old boxes for more than 4 years by now on nfsroot, and I managed Gentoo with Kernel 2.4 and nfsroot.

So far 2.6 does not support nfsroot anymore (do I miss something ?), an I'am on my way to do that in initrd. Outch.
I've managed to create an initrd with some libs and can use ifconfig, portmap and maybe dhcpcd if I try.

Currently a HD is attached, and I can boot the machine with initrd or not by grub.conf. Booting from disk, starting portmap and mounting the nfs works w/o any hazzle.
Booting to initrd, ifconfig works and I try mount -n ..... follows with -oport=2049,mountport=xxxx:
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: failed to connect to pormap (errno = -5)

this repeates 3 times.

Using w/o -rport=2049... and portmap instead gives the following:
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
lockd_up: no pid, 2 users?
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: failed to connect to pormap (errno = -5)
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: failed to connect to pormap (errno = -5)

Trying w/o portmap, than with an w/o again produces just
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel

and mounts

Any ideas, please ?

CU

Michael

[primero.gentoo]

[michip]

Shame on me, you're right. I don't know why I believed that . Maybe it was not included in 2.5.x and kept this in my mind.

Thanx,

Michael

[michip]

I've found the solution for my NFS-Problem; after some googlin' I found a posting of someone else with similiar probs. He deleted a script for starting up the network interfaces....I forgot to configure "lo"

CU

Michael