From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Subject: VFS: Cannot open root device, nfsroot Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:49:53 +0200 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <30da01c211f6$80b1acf0$d16897c2@hetnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from [194.151.104.209] (helo=hetnet.nl) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17I4mV-00074q-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:51:11 -0700 To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi everyone, I got the error: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux NET4.0 ds: no socket drivers loaded request_module[block-major-8]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device ""or 08:03 Please append a correct "root"boot option The strange thing is that it tries to mount from harddisk. This I got = somewhere else: "the kernel looks like it is trying to boot off of 08:03, which is = correct, /dev/sda3." sda3 is indeed the root partition of the scsi harddisk. It seems the kernel tries to mount /dev/sda3 as root instead of mounting = the directory offered by nfsserver. Getting kernel goes ok, so there seems to be some misunderstanding = between pxelinux config file and nfsserver. These are my config files: /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default I got: LABEL linux KERNEL bzImage APPEND root=3D/dev/nfs ip=3Ddhcp nfsroot=3D192.168.1.1:/netboot/base /etc/exports: /netboot/base 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash) /etc/hosts.allow: ALL:ALL /etc/hosts.deny: is empty rpcinfo -p : says portmapper, mountd and nfs are active. My log that logs all says nothing after DHCPPACK for ip assignment by = dhcpd and "tftp: client does not accept options" which is normal I = understand. I have also tried to use other kernels and root filesystems (in = /netboot/base, client was supposed to nfs) but without succes. The kernels I made all gave the error: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/smp for linux NET4.0 ds: no socket drivers loaded request_module[block-major-8]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device ""or 08:03 Please append a correct "root"boot option And a kernel I ripped of a bootflop gave not the error: ds: no socket drivers loaded but has propably not the necessary modules for nfsroot compiled. I am at a loss, I have no idee why it's not working. If anyone has a sugestion I would very much apreciate it. _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs