check that portmap is running on the server.
/etc/init.d/portmap status can other clients mount nfs? On Sun, January 16, 2005 7:46 pm, Andrew Gaffney said: > Keith P Hassen wrote: >> >> 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. > > -- > Andrew Gaffney > Gentoo Linux Developer > Installer Project > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
