Hi all, I install Potato PowerPC PReP on a MVME2306 diskless board. Install program run correctly, kernel an base system are on the server (Pentium75+RH6.0) Now I want to boot but I don't know how to specifie that root fs is a nfs mount. Boot parameters seems to be ignored. What is wrong ??
thanks Pascal here is the boot sequence : (/tftpboot/vmlinuz.2300 is a link on /nfsroot/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 and I want to mount /nfsroot as root fs) Copyright Motorola Inc. 1988 - 1997, All Rights Reserved PPC1 Debugger/Diagnostics Release Version 3.5 - 01/30/98 RM01 COLD Start Local Memory Found =02000000 (&33554432) MPU Clock Speed =300Mhz BUS Clock Speed =67Mhz Reset Vector Location : ROM Bank A Mezzanine Configuration: Single-MPU Current 60X-Bus Master : MPU0 Idle MPU(s) : NONE System Memory: 32MB, ECC Enabled (ECC-Memory Detected) L2Cache: NONE SelfTest/Boots about to Begin... Press <BREAK> at anytime to Abort ALL NetBoot about to Begin... Press <ESC> to Bypass, <SPC> to Continue Network Booting from: DEC21140, Controller 0, Device 0 Device Name: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pci1011,[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:0,0 Loading: /tftpboot/vmlinuz.2300 Client IP Address = 132.169.11.234 Server IP Address = 132.169.9.202 Gateway IP Address = 132.169.11.254 Subnet IP Address Mask = 255.255.252.0 Boot File Name = /tftpboot/vmlinuz.2300 Argument File Name = Network Boot File load in progress... To abort hit <BREAK> Bytes Received =&712708, Bytes Loaded =&712708 Bytes/Second =&237569, Elapsed Time =3 Second(s) Residual-Data Located at: $01F88000 loaded at: 00005400 0001C220 relocated to: 00800000 00816E20 board data at: 01F88000 01F8EA0C relocated to: 00810314 00816D20 zimage at: 00010400 000B1235 relocated to: 00817000 008B7E35 avail ram: 00400000 00800000 Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=132.169.9.202:/nfsroot Uncompressing Linux...done. Now booting the kernel PReP architecture Total memory = 32MB; using 128kB for hash table (at c01a0000) Linux version 2.2.15pre3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991109 (D ebian GNU/Linux)) #1 Tue Feb 8 17:24:45 EST 2000 Boot arguments: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=132.169.9.202:/nfsroot OpenPIC Version 1.2 (2 CPUs and 16 IRQ sources) at fc000000 OpenPIC timer frequency is 8333656 Hz time_init: decrementer frequency = 999983400/60 (15MHz) Calibrating delay loop... 209.72 BogoMIPS Memory: 30616k available (1064k kernel code, 980k data, 108k init) [c0000000,c20 00000] Dentry hash table entries: 4096 (order 3, 32k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) Page cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Setting PCI interrupts for a "MVME 2300" Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 32768 bhash 32768) Starting kswapd v 1.5 pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF). pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF). ... 1 or 2 mn !!!! ... pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF). pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xFF). Keyboard timed out[1] Keyboard timeout[2] MANY_PORTS enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Macintosh non-volatile memory driver v1.0 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 W82C105: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 59 W82C105: 100% native mode on irq 16 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfffffc0-0xfffffc7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio SL82C105 command word: 5 IDE timing: 00000909, resetting to PIO0 timing IDE control/status register: 00ff0091 hda: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive hda: no response (status = 0xff) hdb: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive hdb: no response (status = 0xff) hda: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive hda: no response (status = 0xff) hdb: no response (status = 0xff), resetting drive hdb: no response (status = 0xff) Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M floppy0: no floppy controllers found scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. pcnet32.c: PCI bios is present, checking for devices... eth0: DC21140 at 0xfffdf80 (PCI bus 0, device 14), h/w address 08:00:3e:27:3d:71 , and requires IRQ18 (provided by PCI BIOS). de4x5.c:V0.544 1999/5/8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Rebooting in 180 seconds..