From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (970903.SGI.8.8.7/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id QAA545237 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA14035 for linux-list; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:18:44 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA13973 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:18:34 -0700 Received: from multi11.netcomi.com (multi11.netcomi.com [204.58.155.211]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id QAA03983 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:18:23 -0700 env-from (mgix@nothingreal.com) Received: from void (lax-ca50-20.ix.netcom.com [204.30.73.244]) by multi11.netcomi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA28887 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 18:18:18 -0500 Message-ID: <34512C2B.41C6@nothingreal.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 16:15:55 -0700 From: Emmanuel Mogenet Organization: Nothing Real, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; IRIX 6.2 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Step by step, cont'd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Today, I tried to boot Linux on my Indy with an NFS mounted root. Failed again. Here's what I did: 1. Installed the root tree on machine 192.0.2.15, in /disk4 2. Configured bootp on machine 192.0.2.3 so that it could inform my machine that it's address is 192.0.2.2. 3. Rebooted my machine 4. Went to sash. 5 Typed: scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)/vmlinux nfsroot=192.0.2.15:/disk4 So far, so good. 5. The linux kernel booted, and said: Root-NFS: Got BOOTP answer from 192.0.2.3, my address is 192.0.2.2 Root-NFS: Adding default route failed! Root-NFS: Unable to contact server ... Anybody knows why it couldn't add a route ? I'm using the following kernel: vmlinux-970916-efs I'm going to try an older one. - Mgix