[Klug-general] Debian Lenny NFS root woes!

Karl Lattimer karl at qdh.org.uk
Sun May 25 13:32:35 BST 2008


On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 13:18 +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
> Karl Lattimer wrote:
> >> /mnt/ide4/telvin-root              *
> > try 192.168.2.0/24 instead
> 
> It's telvin-root I want to mount...
> 
> > might work :)
> 
> Works for everything else except nfsroot! :-(
> 
> > and make sure portmap is running, on old redhat systems nfs would be
> > executable without portmap, which used to trip me up.
> 
> Definitely running on the NAS:
> 
> $ rpcinfo -p 192.168.2.254
>     program vers proto   port
>      100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>      100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>      100003    2   udp   2049  nfs
>      100003    3   udp   2049  nfs
>      100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs
>      100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
>      100021    1   udp   1027  nlockmgr
>      100021    3   udp   1027  nlockmgr
>      100021    4   udp   1027  nlockmgr
>      100021    1   tcp   2801  nlockmgr
>      100021    3   tcp   2801  nlockmgr
>      100021    4   tcp   2801  nlockmgr
>      100005    1   udp    926  mountd
>      100005    1   tcp    929  mountd
>      100005    2   udp    926  mountd
>      100005    2   tcp    929  mountd
>      100005    3   udp    926  mountd
>      100005    3   tcp    929  mountd
> 
> My understanding is that it shouldn't be needed on the client as part of 
> nfsroot...
> 
> I might just throw it at someone.

/me ducks...

I think you need portmap for clients too, I seem to remember issues with
that.

Maybe your server side configuration isn't correct...

Just a guess.

K,




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