Nick Rout wrote:
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
Yes, I checked using "rpcinfo -p", etc, etc.
Actually, I realized immediately after sending my first email (isn't it always the way) that I neglected to compile in the correct network driver for the client. After that, things worked like a charm.
What was irritating about this process is that it was difficult for me to gleam the problem from the client side because there is no "log" that I can refer to, only a fast-scrolling boot process. ;)
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