... but my debian 11 server seems (according to my packet capture) to only support NFSv3 and NFSv4. Does anyone happen to know how to enable NFSv2 on nfs-kernel-server for this device? Or have any other suggested solutions to this problem?
The device is an ancient Soekris net4826 from the mid-aughts. It has soldered on flash storage, so the only way to recover from crashing firmware is to netboot. My setup *used to* work. It's getting DHCP information for PXE booting, TFTP's a kernel, but when the kernel attempts to mount an nfs rootfs, the mount fails and it kernel panics. We have one of them still in service in the field (and I have another one sitting in my test bed, crashing). The right solution is probably just to retire the one in the field and put the whole lot of them into a "museum box", but hey, it's the holidays. What better period to waste a bunch of time keeping creaking hardware alive. And anyway, the museum curators will be more thrilled to create an exhibit if they have working firmware. Thanks for any clues, meanwhile I'll keep searching the interwebs. -- Russell Senior [email protected]
