FS problem when booting on IBM Ebony

[Khai Trinh]

Thanks, Der Her...I got the NFS problem now. But my
question is the 440GP root filesystem. Where should I
point the fs directory for it in the Ebony kernel
directory? I just arbitrarily pointed it to a canned
target file system dirextory existed on my Host
system.

Thanks,

--Khai

--- Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr at mail.hofr.at> wrote:
> >
> > I got the following boot up problem with 2.4 devel
> > kernel when booting on the IBM ebony board:
> >
> > Sending BOOTP requests . OK
> > IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 199.254.9.151, my
> > address is 199.254.9.207
> > IP-Config: Complete:
> >       device=eth0, addr=199.254.9.207,
> > mask=255.255.255.0, gw=199.254.9.254,
> >      host=199.254.9.207, domain=,
> nis-domain=(none),
> >      bootserver=199.254.9.151,
> > rootserver=199.254.9.151, rootpath=/projects/hard
> > hat/khai/devkit/ppc/405/target
> > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux
> NET4.0.
> > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 199.254.9.151
> > Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from
> server,
> > using default
> > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 199.254.9.151
> > Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from
> > server, using default
> > mount: server 199.254.9.151 not responding, timed
> out
> > Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting
> > /projects/hardhat/khai/devkit/
> > ppc/405/target
> > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying
> floppy.
> > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
> > block-major-2, errno = 2
> > VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 02:00
> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> 02:00
> >  <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
> >
> > It didn't seem to like the root filesystem
> directory I
> > specified on the Host. Where should I point the fs
> > directory for it in the Ebony kernel directory? I
> just
> > arbitrarily pointed it to the 405 target file
> system
> > dir existed on my Host system.
> >
> I would recomend you check on the server side in
> /var/log/messages what nfsd
> is fussing about - did you export it with
> (rw,no_root_squash) ?? if not then
> uid 0 becommes uid -1 (nobody) and will have
> access/perm problems.
>
> hofrat


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