[Gllug] NFS root booting

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:36 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 29 Dec 2007, Adrian McMenamin outgrape:
> 
> > [    2.585989] Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
> 
> 
> > CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttySC1 panic=5 root=/dev/nfs
> > ip=192.168.61.55:192.168.61.50:::::any earlyprintk=serial
> > video=pvr2fb:640x480-32 at 60"
> 
> You are missing the nfsroot= parameter, which tells the kernel what the
> IP address of the NFS server is, the exported directory on the server to
> mount, and so on.
> 

Not a requirement.


> See Documentation/nfsroot.txt for more details.
> 

I did. It says:


  If the `nfsroot' parameter is NOT given on the command line,
  the default "/tftpboot/%s" will be used.

Which is what I was using.

> (To be honest I can't see how this command-line could ever have worked:
> were you getting your root filesystem from somewhere else and thinking
> you were getting it via NFS?)
> 

There was a bug in the kernel. A patch has now been posted on lkml.

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