From: Randy Smith <rsmith@imagemap.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: root file system mounted via NFS - retry?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:35:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <443CF3F8.408@imagemap.com> (raw)
Hello,
I have a general question regarding having a root file system mounted
via NFS. Our system consists of a linux PC that acts as the NFS server
and two embedded ppc boards running linux that mount their file systems
via NFS. The problem is that the embedded boards boot much faster than
the PC, and when they attempt to mount the root file system, the NFS
server is not up yet. The embedded boards hang and it takes quite a
long time before the watchdog timer reboots them. The next time round,
they come up just fine.
What I would like for them to do is keep trying until the NFS server
appears and then continue to boot.
We are running DENX's ELDK 2.4.25 kernel on the ppc boards and I know
that for some linux releases, one may add values for timeo and retrans
on the boot command line in the NFSROOT= command. Can anyone tell me if
they are valid for this release of the kernel? Or if there is another
way to accomplish this?
Thanks,
-Randy Smith
Software Engineer
ImageMap, Inc.
next reply other threads:[~2006-04-12 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-12 12:35 Randy Smith [this message]
2006-04-12 12:40 ` root file system mounted via NFS - retry? Jarno Manninen
2006-04-12 12:50 ` Brent Cook
2006-04-12 14:01 ` Randy Smith
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