Hi Glenn. I managed to get ours working with the guide. Our exports file says:
Yes, Master<1002> more /etc/exports /export/home/tofu/cicadaroots 169.254.128.0/24(sync,rw,no_root_squash) And: Yes, Master<1003> ls /export/home/tofu/cicadaroots/ bee2Guppi filesystem_etch_nfs_2009_07_07.tar.gz roach_2 tftpboot bee2Unused roach_1 roach_3 Yes, Master<1004> Where roach_1 contains the etch filesystem: Yes, Master<1005> ls /export/home/tofu/cicadaroots/roach_1 etch You have to be sure your export points to an actual directory and not a link, also. We also had a problem with routes on one of our machines with multiple networks. Make sure that the route to your host is OK, and that the DHCP host knows about it. Yes, Master<1004> route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.16.96.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.3.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 default vlan96-gw.gb.nr 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Yes, Master<1005> Good luck! John > Hello, > Sorry to bother you all with this, but I'm having trouble getting my > ROACH to mount the network file system. I followed the guide, and the > DHCP seems to work as well as the TFTP portion. However, when it's > time to mount the root file system, I get: > > Sending DHCP requests ., OK > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 192.168.0.1, my address is 192.168.0.8 > IP-Config: Complete: > device=eth0, addr=192.168.0.8, mask=255.255.0.0, gw=255.255.255.255, > host=192.168.0.8, domain=, nis-domain=(none), > bootserver=192.168.0.1, rootserver=192.168.0.1, > rootpath=/srv/roach_boot/etch > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.1 > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.1 > Root-NFS: Server returned error -13 while mounting /srv/roach_boot/etch > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. > VFS: Cannot open root device "192.168.0.1:/srv/roach_boot/etch" or > unknown-block(2,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 0100 4096 ram0 (driver?) > ... > > 1f05 384 mtdblock5 (driver?) > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(2,0) > Rebooting in 180 seconds..System Hardware Reset > > > I've tried googling a while on the "error -13" message and see that it > means that my nfs server is saying access denied. However, I can't > figure out why this is. > I've tried doing chmod -R 777 /srv/roach_boot/etch but no change. > My /etc/exports file is as follows: > /srv/roach_boot/etch 192.168.0.0(rw,subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure) > > I've also tried exporting /srv/roach_boot > > $sudo exportfs > /srv/roach_boot/etch > 192.168.0.0 > /srv/roach_boot > 192.168.0.0 > > > I appreciate any help solving what I'm sure is a silly linux problem. > My server is debian lenny if it matters. > > Thanks, > Glenn >
