Slow boot with NFS, server not responding

Wed Jul 26 02:27:31 EST 2006

I am having trouble booting the kernel with a root file system over NFS.
Once the kernel has mounted the file system, it cycles through this pair of
messages, endlessly:

	nfs: server 192.168.0.39 not responding, still trying
	nfs: server 192.168.0.39 OK

I can't figure out if this is a configuration problem or a hardware problem
with our new board.  Booting in EXTREMELY slow, but manages to make some
progress.  At first, I thought that I had an NFS server configuration or
firewall problem.  But eventually, I discovered that the kernel had some
success mounting the root file system because I started seeing messages from
the init scripts.  Neither the BDI2000 or u-boot had any problem using the
network hardware, so I suspect something must be misconfigured in the
kernel.  While these messages are appearing, I can ping the board without
any dropped packets.

The board is modeled after the Freescale Lite5200 (IceCube), but uses an
MPC5200B processor.  The development environment is ELDK 3.1.1 with the
ELDK's CVS development tree of Linux 2.4.25.

Here is the console log during kernel startup...
I've also attached our kernel .config file.

****************************************
==> bootm 0xff100000
bootm 0xff100000
## Booting image at ff100000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux PPC MPC5200 2.4
   Created:      2006-07-19  22:31:09 UTC
   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    884063 Bytes = 863.3 kB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Memory BAT mapping: BAT2=64Mb, BAT3=0Mb, residual: 0Mb
Linux version 2.4.25 (ejubenville at cvs) (gcc version 3.3.3 (DENX ELDK 3.1.1
3.3.3-9)) #3 Wed Jul 19 15:30:56 PDT 2006
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 16384 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.0.39:/opt/eldk/ppc_6xx
ip=192.168.0.73:192.168.0.39:192.168.0.3:255.255.255.0:mmt1::off
Calibrating delay loop... 307.20 BogoMIPS
Memory: 62176k available (1496k kernel code, 504k data, 76k init, 0k
highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: devfs_debug: 0x0
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
devfs_register(cua): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(cua): could not append to parent, err: -17
ttyS0 on PSC1
ttyS1 on PSC2
ttyS2 on PSC3
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Port Config is: 0x11050004
ipb=132MHz, set clock period to 7
GPIO config: 11050004
ATA invalid: 01000000
ATA hostcnf: 03000000
ATA pio1   : 100a0a00
ATA pio2   : 02040600
XLB Arb cnf: 0000a366
mpc5xxx_ide: Setting up IDE interface ide0...
ATA DMA task: 5
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SanDisk SDCFB-4096, CFA DISK drive
hda: Setting MDMA 2 timings
hda: Setting PIO 4 timings
ide0 at 0xf0003a60-0xf0003a67,0xf0003a5c on irq 45
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: 8005536 sectors (4099 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=7942/16/63, DMA
Partition check:
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<7>Unhandled interrupt 1a, disabled
 [PTBL] [992/128/63] p1
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 8192)
eth0: Phy @ 0x0, type LXT971 (0x001378e2)
IP-Config: Complete:
      device=eth0, addr=192.168.0.73, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.0.3,
     host=mmt1, domain=, nis-domain=(none),
     bootserver=192.168.0.39, rootserver=192.168.0.39, rootpath=
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.39
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.39
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k init
nfs: server 192.168.0.39 not responding, still trying
nfs: server 192.168.0.39 OK
****************************************

The "not responding" and "OK" keep repeating at a slow rate,
eventually interspersed with messages from the init process.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Ed Jubenville
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