I am trying to properly configure a diskless server and client. The server (machine A) is on 10.0.0.43. It is running atftpd, dhcp and nfs. My client (machine B) is on 10.0.0.6. I can start machine B and watch PXE get the IP address (10.0.0.6) and bring up the grub menu I customized for this client. I can even get the kernel image to boot. The problem comes when the kernel tries to mount via NFS. The error I get is:
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 10.0.0.43 RPC: sendmsg returned error 101 Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
I got a similar error when doing nfsroot with my sparc box. It means that it doesn't have an IP address. Do you see it getting an IP from DHCP in the kernel output above that error? Try 'ip=bootp' (or whatever) and see if it helps.
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