booting from NFS-runaway loop

2008-03-11 Thread Vim Venture
Hello, I'm having some trouble getting my Davinci DM6446 EVM to boot off of my NFS server. I can mount the filesystem, but the kernel won't boot. The boot is getting stuck with this error: request_module: runaway loop modprobe char-major-0-20481 In setting up the system, I copied the

Re: booting from NFS-runaway loop

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Berry
Did you use 'cp -a' on the filesystem copy? I don't think cp preserves the links without the -a argument. Vim Venture wrote: Hello, I'm having some trouble getting my Davinci DM6446 EVM to boot off of my NFS server. I can mount the filesystem, but the kernel won't boot. The boot is

Re: booting from NFS-runaway loop

2008-03-11 Thread Vim Venture
Thanks Stephen, While that didn't solve my problem, it certainly gave me a direction to head in. I was using a Windows host, with more trouble than it seemed worth, and decided to switch over to a Linux host. So hopefully my new installation will go a little smoother. Working on that