r0dzilla
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Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Posts: 70
Location: South Carolina, USA
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 Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:30 pm Post subject: Problems with diskless system, can't mount nfsroot |
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I have been a gentoo user for some time now. I think this is my first post in the forums, but I have been reading them, and getting answers to my questions, before having to post 
However I can't seem to find any info on this problem, except for a few tips, that I've used (like having network card driver built-in instead of as a module, duh!)
I setup my system very simular to the method described in this post: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54293
I've got tftp and everything elese working and the 3com network card downloads and boots pxegrub. pxegrub boots the kernel and everything looks fine until it tries to mount root:
| Quote: | VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or 00:ff
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:ff |
On my server, I have another install of gentoo (as descrbed in the post above) at /diskless/node1
One thing I noticed is that I did not see an nfs device in /diskless/node1/dev
I tried searching to see how to configure it in /etc/devfs.conf, but I gave up and did a:
| Code: | | mknod /diskless/node1/dev/nfs c 0 255 |
This did not help either...
I have NFS built into kernel as well as root over nfs. Wierd thing is I did not see that option in menuconfig, I had to edit the .config file to see it (and change it to y).
Also tried setting "mount devfs at boot" in kernel too
Any suggestions?
Thanks, in advance for any assistance you can provide. |
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