Re: [BUG] nfs version 2 broken

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 01:13:41 EST


On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 07:07 +0100, Knut Petersen wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> The good news is that I finally succeeded to boot over network
> using the PXE-bootrom / ip dhcp autoconfig / nfsroot method.
> But "ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=%s" is not the way to go
> with recent kernels. This results in a kernel panic caused by
> the inability to find root. Things go wrong immediately after
> rpc port lookup:
>
> > NFS: Buggy server - nlink == 0!
> > nfs_fhget failed

What kind of server is this that you are using? The above message
basically means that it is handing out inodes with a link count of 0.

Cheers,
Trond

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