[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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