Thomas Lange schrieb:
But you may debug your NFS server. Check if the mount requests are received by your NFS server. tcpdump and /var/log/daemon.log may help.

dammit, you're right. the server does not even try to mount rootfs,
but why? just for fun i tried debian-installer and all went fine.

daemon.log tells me:
Oct 8 17:02:39 fai3 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:30:f1:7d:4d:44 via eth0: network 80.190.151.0/25: no free leases
Oct  8 17:03:39 fai3 last message repeated 20 times
Oct  8 17:04:56 fai3 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:13:72:5e:47:05 via eth0
Oct 8 17:04:56 fai3 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 80.190.151.40 to 00:13:72:5e:47:05 via eth0 Oct 8 17:04:58 fai3 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 80.190.151.40 (80.190.151.16) from 00:13:72:5e:47:05 via eth0 Oct 8 17:04:58 fai3 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 80.190.151.40 to 00:13:72:5e:47:05 via eth0
Oct  8 17:04:58 fai3 in.tftpd[3175]: tftp: client does not accept options

regards,
Tobias

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