Re: DHCP/nfsroot not working

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>]

Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> writes:

> I have an ebedded system (called coll road runner nad made by the
> german company Lippert) which I want to boot with DHCP and nfsroot.
>
> It has grub installed on its MBR on the hard disk and grub starts
> correctly and shows the menu defined in (hd0,0):/boot/grub/menu.lst.
>
> I have define one entry for nfsroot which is
>
>     title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-ut (nfsroot)
>     root            (hd0,0)
>     kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-ut root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/crr ip=bootp rw s
>     boot
>     savedefault
>
> The kernel is loaded by grub, boots, brings up the eth0 interface and
> sends DHCP requests.  The DHCP server replies correctly (checked with
> tcpdump) but the client seems not to see these replies.  It continues
> sending DHCP requests until it times out.

The above config isn't right... you should have ip=dhcp


Nic Ferrier