[Ltsp-discuss] NFS trouble with ThinkNic

[Carrie Coy]

I'm trying out a ThinkNIC and I've used John Robertson's very helpful ThinkNIC
HOWTO to set it up.  I've used his vmlinuz.thinknic kernel and pxelinux.*
files from the sourceforge download.

I'm stuck where the root file system is  NFS-mounted.   This is what appears
on the ThinkNIC screen:

IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=192.168.36.1, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.36.18,
       host=ws001, domain=ssww.com, nis-domain=(none),
       bootserver=192.168.36.18, rootserver=192.168.36.18, rootpath=/opt/ltsp/i386
 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux Net4.0
 Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.36.18
 Looking up port of RPC 100005/2 on  192.168.36.18
 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
 Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
 nfs: server 192.168.36.18 not responding, still trying
nfs: server 192.168.36.18 OK

The final two lines cycle indefinitely .  The last thing I see in /var/log/messages
before my ThinkNIC get stuck is:

Feb 13 16:18:36 thincity rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
192.168.36.1:800 for /opt/ltsp/i386 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
    
I've read messages in the archives suggesting "Unable to open an initial
console" may be related to an incorrect root-path, but I *think* mine is
okay.   I have other (non PXE) clients that can boot with no trouble.   The
problem is something particular to the ThinkNIC.

I did have "permission denied" troubles before I adjusted the nfsroot in
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to read:

prompt=0
 label linux
         kernel vmlinuz.thinknic
         append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.36.18:/opt/ltsp/i386 ip=dhcp

Any suggestions on where I can look for the problem?

Many thanks,
Carrie Coy







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