Re: nfsroot booting problem 2.0 -> 2.1

David Maslen (david@binary.net.au)
10 Jul 1998 23:10:51 +1000

DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> writes:
> >same problem here :
> >mounting / from nfs server works fine,
> >mounting /var from local hard disks works fine too,
> >but mounting /var from nfs server (the diskless workstations) doesn't work:
> >rpc timeouts.
>
> Make sure rpc.portmap is running on Your client machine !

But this isn't really an option when doinging an nfsroot mount,
because nothing is running on local machine until the root filesystem
is mounted over nfs.

As I said, it works with 2.0.34 but not with 2.1.xxx

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