Re: init problems

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

Maria McKinley wrote:

> I have a machine that I am attempting to boot over the network. I have
> compiled a kernel for it, Debian Lenny Linux version 2.6.26, with nfs
> file system and root file system support. For a complete rundown on how
> I have created the setup, please see:
> 
> http://www.shadlen.org/~maria/pmwiki/Work/Gpxe
> 
> Things work well up until it is time to mount the file system from
> fstab. The mount is not happening because statd is never started, and
> statd is not starting because portmap is not starting. I suspect it is
> related to this bug:
> 
>

so you say, you can boot from the remote server but you can not mount the
root fs rw?

Are you dropped to the little shell from the initrd?

I suppose that you have the wrong permissions on the nfs server for what you
are using as root.

check the root_squash option in export

regards