On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Giles Godart-Brown
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've seen many posts about how to boot a Beaglebone black via an NFS mounted
> root partition, but none seem to work with the latest version.
> I started by creating an NFS mount on my Ubuntu PC and successfully mounting
> it from the Beaglebone when booted from an SD image of the latest version
> dated 2013.06.20 from the Beaglebone site. All the commands below were done
> as root.;
> uname -a
> Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone50 ....
> Then test the mount with;
> mount -o nfsvers=3 192.168.10.118:/home/bone /mnt/nfs
> Next I copied the entire filesystem to the nfs mount with
> cp -axv /. /mnt/nfs/.
> I've edited the fstab on the nfs (/home/bone/etc/fstab) to add
> /dev/nfs / nfs defaults 0  0
> and correctly edited /home/bone/etc/network/interface to reflect the correct
> IP address etc.
> Next I edited the uEnv.txt on the SD card to add
> serverip=192.168.10.118
> ipaddr=192.168.10.47
> hostname=MH_bbb
> netmask=255.255.255.0
> gateway=192.168.10.1
> nfsdevice=eth0:off
> nfsopts=vers=3
> rootpath=/home/bone
> and changed the mmcargs line to;
> mcargs=setenv bootargs console=tty0 console=${console} ${optargs}
> ${cape_disable} ${cape_enable} ${kms_force_mode}
> ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gateway}:${netmask}:${hostname}:${nfsdevice}
> root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=${serverip}:${rootpath},${nfsopts}  ${systemd}
> The Bone starts to boot and I can ping it on the correct IP address, but the
> display never shows anything and it doesn't let me ssh to it.
> Can anyone let me know what I've missed?

Please "pastebin.com" your full serial boot log.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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