thanks. That was it. Too much dirt in my eyes today. My U-boot script that builds the bootargs was wrong.
-----Original Message----- From: Steven Blakeslee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:59 PM To: Barbier, Renaud (GE Infrastructure); linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org Subject: RE: Linux 2.4.26 boot over network >Now, I am trying to boot Linux over the network using the following boot arguments: >Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot= >192.168.49.189:/home/proj/at921/Filesys/usr/local/gefnes/target >192.168.49.1:192.168.49.189::255.255.255.0::eth0:off da104_gpio=8 In the first one you had ip=bootp, this uses bootp to get the ip address. In the second one you do not have an ip define so the ethernet is not being enabled. You need something like this ip=192.168.49.1:::255.255.255.0
