Maria McKinley wrote: > I have a machine that I am attempting to boot over the network. I have > compiled a kernel for it, Debian Lenny Linux version 2.6.26, with nfs > file system and root file system support. For a complete rundown on how > I have created the setup, please see: > > http://www.shadlen.org/~maria/pmwiki/Work/Gpxe > > Things work well up until it is time to mount the file system from > fstab. The mount is not happening because statd is never started, and > statd is not starting because portmap is not starting. I suspect it is > related to this bug: > >
so you say, you can boot from the remote server but you can not mount the root fs rw? Are you dropped to the little shell from the initrd? I suppose that you have the wrong permissions on the nfs server for what you are using as root. check the root_squash option in export regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
