[syslinux] VFS: Cannot open root device, pxelinux nfsroot

[Martijn Bakker]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 01:17:23PM +0200, rob.vogel at hetnet.nl wrote:
> Hi everyone,

hey,

> I got the error:

oh, that's not good :)


> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default I got:
> LABEL  linux
> KERNEL  bzImage
> APPEND root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/netboot/base

you can leave the root=/dev/nfs here. In stead, do this:

on the machine where you are compiling the kernel, make /dev/nfs:
  mknod /dev/nfs c 0 255

and then use rdev to make your kernel point to it:
  rdev <kernelimage> /dev/nfs

You probably already did all this, because you read the
Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-HOWTO.html), but I'm just making
sure here :)

grtz, Tijn

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