Thanks, Der Her...I got the NFS problem now. But my question is the 440GP root filesystem. Where should I point the fs directory for it in the Ebony kernel directory? I just arbitrarily pointed it to a canned target file system dirextory existed on my Host system.
Thanks, --Khai --- Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr at mail.hofr.at> wrote: > > > > I got the following boot up problem with 2.4 devel > > kernel when booting on the IBM ebony board: > > > > Sending BOOTP requests . OK > > IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 199.254.9.151, my > > address is 199.254.9.207 > > IP-Config: Complete: > > device=eth0, addr=199.254.9.207, > > mask=255.255.255.0, gw=199.254.9.254, > > host=199.254.9.207, domain=, > nis-domain=(none), > > bootserver=199.254.9.151, > > rootserver=199.254.9.151, rootpath=/projects/hard > > hat/khai/devkit/ppc/405/target > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux > NET4.0. > > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 199.254.9.151 > > Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from > server, > > using default > > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 199.254.9.151 > > Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from > > server, using default > > mount: server 199.254.9.151 not responding, timed > out > > Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting > > /projects/hardhat/khai/devkit/ > > ppc/405/target > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying > floppy. > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k > > block-major-2, errno = 2 > > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 02:00 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > 02:00 > > <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. > > > > It didn't seem to like the root filesystem > directory I > > specified on the Host. Where should I point the fs > > directory for it in the Ebony kernel directory? I > just > > arbitrarily pointed it to the 405 target file > system > > dir existed on my Host system. > > > I would recomend you check on the server side in > /var/log/messages what nfsd > is fussing about - did you export it with > (rw,no_root_squash) ?? if not then > uid 0 becommes uid -1 (nobody) and will have > access/perm problems. > > hofrat ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
