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Bug 10261

Summary: boot fails for nfsroot clients
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: s.m.green
Component: liloAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description s.m.green 2000-03-20 11:32:30 UTC 
boot.b supplied with RedHat6.1 appears to be broken with respect to nfsroot
clients booted from a floppy.

After creating a nfsroot kernel with 2.2.12 and 2.2.14, I get the following
errors using boot.b of RedHat 6.1

Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.4.1
portmap: server 192.168.4.1 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server using default
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.4.1
portmap: server 192.168.4.1 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server using default
mount: server 192.168.4.1 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /cluster/nfsnode
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.4.1
portmap: server 192.168.4.1 not reponding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server using default
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.4.1
portmap: server 192.168.4.1 not reponding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server using default
mount: server 192.168.4.1 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /cluster/nfsnode
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.

Switching boot.b for that of RedHat 6.0 results in clean nfsroot booting.

We can't tie this error down to anything else except boot.b - we've been
round the houses regards kernel options etc and had no problems with
RedHat-6.0.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 05:09:06 UTC 
There were problems with LILO in older releases with passing long kernel append
lines; these should be fixed in newer releases