In message <0509218DDAD7D6118055006008F6D5F6A1E39A at postal.viasat.com> you wrote: > > I am having a problem with NFS mounting the root filesystem. It seems that > init > is not being executed. However, the problem may be with rootpath not being > set. > Should that parameter be set from the kernel command nfsroot=?
What are you talking about? > Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/powerpc-rootfs > ip=172.25.59 > .11:172.25.59.15::255.255.0.0:vib::off Your rootpath _is_ set here: you're using "/tftpboot/powerpc-rootfs" as root directory. ... > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 172.25.59.15 > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 172.25.59.15 > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). And the root filesystem was found and mounted. > Mounted devfs on /dev > Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k init > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. Are you sure you NEED devfs here? For now I recommend to disable this option, as it adds just additional complexity. To anlyze what's going on with your NFS root filesystem, run a network sniffer (like ethereal) and check wich accesses work, and which are failing. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
