Re: nfsroot booting problem 2.0 -> 2.1

DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 12:06:19 +0100 (MET)

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>I have several diskless linux machines that I boot off a kernel floppy
>disk. dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0; rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/boot255
>
>Everything works fine with 2.0.34 but fails strangely under 2.1.108.
>The kernel loads fine, finds it's network information from the bootp
>server, then begins to timeout with rpc error messages from the nfs
>server. lockd complains and it says no response from local portmapper.
>Eventually it will boot, but takes about 20mins with all the timeouts.
>It seems to lockup and require a hard reboot shortly after it becomes
>'usable'.

Make sure rpc.portmap is running on Your clients !
You can also add the 'nolock' mount option for the nfs filesystems.
I think then it doesn't require rpc.portmap.

Hope this helps !

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