I am having trouble booting the kernel with a root file system over NFS. Once the kernel has mounted the file system, it cycles through this pair of messages, endlessly:
nfs: server 192.168.0.39 not responding, still trying nfs: server 192.168.0.39 OK I can't figure out if this is a configuration problem or a hardware problem with our new board. Booting in EXTREMELY slow, but manages to make some progress. At first, I thought that I had an NFS server configuration or firewall problem. But eventually, I discovered that the kernel had some success mounting the root file system because I started seeing messages from the init scripts. Neither the BDI2000 or u-boot had any problem using the network hardware, so I suspect something must be misconfigured in the kernel. While these messages are appearing, I can ping the board without any dropped packets. The board is modeled after the Freescale Lite5200 (IceCube), but uses an MPC5200B processor. The development environment is ELDK 3.1.1 with the ELDK's CVS development tree of Linux 2.4.25. Here is the console log during kernel startup... I've also attached our kernel .config file. **************************************** ==> bootm 0xff100000 bootm 0xff100000 ## Booting image at ff100000 ... Image Name: Linux PPC MPC5200 2.4 Created: 2006-07-19 22:31:09 UTC Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 884063 Bytes = 863.3 kB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=64Mb, BAT3=0Mb, residual: 0Mb Linux version 2.4.25 (ejubenville at cvs) (gcc version 3.3.3 (DENX ELDK 3.1.1 3.3.3-9)) #3 Wed Jul 19 15:30:56 PDT 2006 On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 16384 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.0.39:/opt/eldk/ppc_6xx ip=192.168.0.73:192.168.0.39:192.168.0.3:255.255.255.0:mmt1::off Calibrating delay loop... 307.20 BogoMIPS Memory: 62176k available (1496k kernel code, 504k data, 76k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au) devfs: devfs_debug: 0x0 devfs: boot_options: 0x1 JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured devfs_register(cua): could not append to parent, err: -17 devfs_register(cua): could not append to parent, err: -17 ttyS0 on PSC1 ttyS1 on PSC2 ttyS2 on PSC3 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Port Config is: 0x11050004 ipb=132MHz, set clock period to 7 GPIO config: 11050004 ATA invalid: 01000000 ATA hostcnf: 03000000 ATA pio1 : 100a0a00 ATA pio2 : 02040600 XLB Arb cnf: 0000a366 mpc5xxx_ide: Setting up IDE interface ide0... ATA DMA task: 5 Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: SanDisk SDCFB-4096, CFA DISK drive hda: Setting MDMA 2 timings hda: Setting PIO 4 timings ide0 at 0xf0003a60-0xf0003a67,0xf0003a5c on irq 45 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 8005536 sectors (4099 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=7942/16/63, DMA Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<7>Unhandled interrupt 1a, disabled [PTBL] [992/128/63] p1 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192) eth0: Phy @ 0x0, type LXT971 (0x001378e2) IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=192.168.0.73, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.0.3, host=mmt1, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=192.168.0.39, rootserver=192.168.0.39, rootpath= NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.39 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.39 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k init nfs: server 192.168.0.39 not responding, still trying nfs: server 192.168.0.39 OK **************************************** The "not responding" and "OK" keep repeating at a slow rate, eventually interspersed with messages from the init process. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Ed Jubenville -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: config.txt Url: http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20060725/ccb98824/attachment.txt