Broken NFS server (or client?)

[Mark Street]

Aha, from your previous post let's look at the parameters being passed.

>The appended lines are:
>root=/dev/nfs
>nfsroot=192.168.0.6:/

How about adding
ip=dhcp

It should work with dhcp though, the kernel should start a dhcp/bootp query 
when it boots as you are using kernel level autoconfiguration.

At 10:04 PM 8/8/2001 -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:

>>Hmmm, this has me wondering....are you using.....  ip=<autoconf> for the
>>kernel parameter .  Do the NIC's initialize with proper IP settings on both
>>ends?
>
>As far as the network goes, I know that the server is working because I 
>have been administrating it mostly using SSH (it is currently living on a 
>garage workbench where there are no chairs).  I'm not sure about the 
>client because I can't find any evidence that it is actually getting on 
>the network, even though the problem is being reported as an NFS error.
>
>I suppose that the problem could reside in the DHCP client that's built 
>into the kernel.  I have tried manually assigning IP information at the 
>LILO prompt (ip=192.168.0.217), but the documentation is so cryptic, I'm 
>not sure if I'm doing it right or not.
>
>This is just a wild guess, but should I try using a BOOTP or RARP server 
>instead?