[syslinux] NFS error 101, again
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Dec 29 17:14:13 PST 2003
Harald Milz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got another one... NFS error 101 with NFSROOT has been discussed a
> lot, and hpa gave an answer to it which appears right. It's ENETUNREACH,
> and I suspect my diskless box does not set its IP parameters right.
>
> PXElinux is set up as follows:
>
> label linvdr
> kernel kernel-linvdr
> append initrd=initrd-linvdr acpi=off root=/dev/nfs \
> nfsroot=192.168.20.1:/opt/tftpboot/linvdr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 \
> nfsaddrs=192.168.20.20:192.168.20.1:192.168.20.99:255.255.255.0:linvdr
>
> (append line broken for readability only)
>
> I also tried ip= instead of nfsaddrs= as well as ip=dhcp, no luck.
>
> Why in the world would the kernel not configure its IP values? It's a SuSE
> 8.0 default kernel, and it has everything set:
>
Do you have multiple interfaces on this machine? If so, apparently the
kernel auto-configuration won't do its thing unless it's told which
interface to use (which you don't.)
-hpa
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