On Tue, 2 May 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:

> > > What I have is my Sun 4/110 manages to get as far as all the way through
> > > kernel startup to mounting the root, which is an nfs share on my linux
> > > box and then crashes trying to mount root.
> > >
> > > I'm looking for bright ideas to maybe get this working, anyone?
> > 
> >         Send the exact error message, plus /etc/exports on your server.
> >         (I would say run NetBSD on the server, but lets try to fix the
> >         problem first :)
> 
> :-> The log (last 7 lines copied from console)
> nfs_boot: timeout...
> nfs_boot: timeout...
> nfs_boot: timeout...
> nfs_boot: bootparam whoami, error=60
> no file system for ie0
> cannot mount root, error = 79
> root device (default ie0):
> 
> :-> the /etc/exports file
> /export/client/root 10.1.2.139(rw,no_root_squash)
> /export/client/swap 10.1.2.139(rw,no_root_squash)
> /export/client/usr 10.1.2.139(rw,root_squash)
> /export/client/home 10.1.2.139(rw,root_squash)

	OK - it looks like the problem is the kernel fails to get 
	the necessary information via bootparam with respect to
	mounting the root filesystem. I'd start giving bootparamd
	very suspicious looks (and extra debugging flags if possible)

		David/absolute
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