From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200007052245.AAA24265@denx.local.net> To: "TWG - pat, mark & steve" cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Problems with HardHat/NFS root filesystems From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:27:57 EDT." Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 00:45:48 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message you wrote: > > Thanks, Wolfgang, for your response. It helped somewhat. Here's what I > discovered: > > 1. I am also unable to run ash.static Then shread libs are not your primary problem. > 2. I forgot to mention another error message (actually, I thought it was > trivial but it's not), I also get a "Warning: unable to open an initial > console" error message. OK - that's a different issue, then. > In /etc/exports, I export the volume as /opt/hardhat..... > > However, when I do an "exportfs -av" the exported volume shows up as > /usr/opt/hardhat..... > I specified /opt/hardhat... in /etc/dhcpd.conf > > I think, therefore, that NFS is not allowing access to the proper > directories, and that's why it can't find an init (or a /dev/console!) > > Am I on the right track? I think so - most probably your target can't see the files it needs. You should be able find out by running some network analyzer (tcpdump might be enough for the job; ethereal will make it more convenient). The quick test is to fix your configuration and try it out :-) Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de If it went on at this rate, in several billion years he'd be rich beyond his wildest dreams! - Terry Pratchett, _Soul Music_ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/