Hello List, while trying to get a diskless Sparc Station SLC to boot from the network using the latest stable debian-sparc files, i encountered some problems with mounting the NFS root filesystem.
Searching this list and the Web i only found some threads about the same problem in January. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200201/msg00080.html) Unfortunately, the problem wasn't solved there. I set up everything as described in the threads about this issue. RARP, TFTP, RPC and NFS are configured correctly on the server machine, i think. I used the latest available official linux-a.out. The SLC downloads and boots the kernel, but then it complains: ... Partition check: Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.1 RPC: sendmsg returned error 51 portmap: RPC call returned error 51 Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.1 RPC: sendmsg returned error 51 portmap: RPC call returned error 51 Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default RPC: sendmsg returned error 51 mount: RPC call returned error 51 Root-NFS: Server returned error -51 while mounting /export/sun-debian-3.0/debian-sparc-root VFS: unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. I got this result with several different proposed flavors of kernel options, like ok boot net ip=192.168.0.56 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.0.1:/export/sun-debian-3.0/debian-sparc-root Watching tcpdump output, it seems like there isn't even a single RPC / NFS packet sent over the network - just RARP and TFTP traffic. Hardware problems are unlikely, since OpenBSD runs perfect on this machine. Anybody having an idea? Maybe i'm overlooking something really stupid? Thanks for any hint, Boris
