Hi Tom

Are you certain NFS is working correctly? Since the initial uImage transfer
is over tftp and dhcp looks okay from the log! Possibly try mount nfs from a
computer on the same subnet as the roaches using dhcp from the server?
Maybe?


Regards


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Tom Downes <[email protected]> wrote:

> Casper folks:
>
> I am setting up a netboot system for our ~16 ROACH boards. I had
> things working until I attempted to edit /etc/network/interfaces to
> enable eth0 to use DHCP. My testing to this point had been over the
> serial port. As soon as the DHCP client makes a request, the NFS
> connection breaks and I get:
>
> nfs: server 10.5.5.32 not responding, still trying
>
> This is, of course, after netboot makes some initial DHCP requests as
> part of the BOOTP / TFTP dancing. All that works and it can boot
> successfully if I do not enable eth0 as part of boot-up.
>
> How do I enable eth0 to use DHCP without breaking the NFS connection
> that allows the ROACH to continue seeing the exported filesystem?
>
> Tom
>
>


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