Ebony Board, PPC440GP and NFS time out

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 03:19:54PM -0700, Brian Hawley wrote:
> Loading file "/zImage.ebony" ...
> Sending tftp boot request ...
> Transfer Complete ...
> Loaded successfully ...
> Entry point at 0x500000 ...
> loaded at: 00500000 005C81DC
> relocated to: 01000000 010C81DC
> zimage at: 01005847 010C4136
> avail ram: 00400000 00800000
> Linux/PPC load: ip=on
> Uncompressing Linux...done.
> Now booting the kernel
> Linux version 2.6.5 (bnh-engr at feimer) (gcc version 3.3.3) #1 Wed May 19
> 15:41:31 PDT 2004
> IBM Ebony port (MontaVista Software, Inc. (source at mvista.com))
> On node 0 totalpages: 32768
> DMA zone: 32768 pages, LIFO batch:8
> Normal zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: ip=on
> PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes)
> Memory: 127584k available (1212k kernel code, 428k data, 84k init, 0k
> highmem)
> Calibrating delay loop... 598.01 BogoMIPS
> Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 6 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
> ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 1) is a 16550A
> mal0: Initialized, 4 tx channels, 2 rx channels
> emac: IBM EMAC Ethernet driver, version 2.0
> Maintained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> zmii0: input 0 in SMII mode
> eth0: IBM emac, MAC 00:04:ac:e3:23:b2
> eth0: Found Generic MII PHY (0x08)
> zmii0: input 1 in RMII mode
> eth1: IBM emac, MAC 00:04:ac:e3:23:b3
> eth1: Found Generic MII PHY (0x09)
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> eth0: Link is Up
> eth0: Speed: 100, Full duplex.
> Sending BOOTP requests ...... timed out!
> IP-Config: Retrying forever (NFS root)...
> eth0: Speed: 100, Full duplex.
> Sending BOOTP requests ...

Looks fine until BOOTP stage. Use any sniffer to check whether BOOTP requests
are coming out.

Please, check that your DHCP server allows BOOTP clients.

Eugene.


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