There are two possibilites that I can think of: either NFS is broken on the
server, or the kernel that you're network booting isn't happy about your
eepro100 adapters. Please post what your /etc/exports looks like, and you
might try mounting a file system from the server to the server, just to
make sure NFS is really happy. The mere fact that nfsd is running on the
server has no bearing whether nfs is actually alive and happy. Do
something like:
mount localhost:/tftpboot /mnt
on the server and see if it mounts /tftpboot over /mnt. If the mount
fails, then it's an NFS problem, to correct do:
service nfs restart
and retry the mount above.
The other possibility is that the kernel is somehow unhappy with your
eepro100 adpaters on your client, and the kernel is failing to configure
them properly. Since eepro100 is already built into the boot kernel (which
kernel are you using to boot, by the way?) this is a much nastier problem
to debug. Let's not think about rebuilding the boot kernel until we've
ruled out nfs, ok?
Rich
Richard Ferri
IBM Linux Technology Center
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Steve Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.sourceforge.net on 12/03/2001
11:47:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] newbie question
Oh sure, it's network-booting OK. DHCP is working and the client is
booting off the server. It looks like it's running some kind of default
script - it's looking for Stallion cards, then 3C59X, then CS89x0 then:
IP-Config: No network devices available
Partition check:
Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy
VFS: Insert root floppy and press Enter
No network devices available? Huh? Where? I'm using eepro100 for the
client's on-board NIC to get to this point. Not sure what this refers to.
Steve
--On Monday, December 03, 2001 11:19 AM -0500 Michael Chase-Salerno
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I sounds like the network boot wasn't sucessful at all. On the console of
> the client, you should see it send out network requests and then load
> the netboot kernel and run it. Did any of this happen?
>
> Mike
>
> On Monday 03 December 2001 10:48, Steve Muir wrote:
>> Hi anyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up an 8-node cluster - 1 server and 7 diskless slaves
>> (using Etherboot floppies). I've been through all the wizard steps with
>> no error messages and get to the point where it asks me to reboot my
>> clients. So I watch as the machine boots and I get a "cannot mount root
>> fs - trying floppy" and "NFS not running" or something very close to
>> that and I'm stuck at that point. I can see the client filesystems
>> under /tftpboot/{client ip-address}/ and nfsd is running on the server.
>> I'm guessing I need to explicitly export the filesystems but I'm real
>> weak as far as nfs goes. Can anyone tell me if I'm overlooking something
>> really simple?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steve Muir
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>>
>>
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