I tried to mount another nfs mount on a system running with nfsroot. But I get
# mount basil:/home /basil/home/ mount: Network is down The network is not down of course, the system is happily running with nfs root from that server. Userland is older SUSE 10.0 Excerpt from strace mount: -Andi socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(938), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use) bind(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(939), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(900), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.23.204.1")}, 16) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="bigfoot", ...}) = 0 geteuid() = 0 getegid() = 0 getgroups(0, NULL) = 1 getgroups(1, [0]) = 1 gettimeofday({1185029510, 644658}, NULL) = 0 write(3, "\200\0\0Td*\362{\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\245\0\0\0\2\0"..., 88) = 88 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 20000) = 1 read(3, "\200\0\0<d*\362{\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4000) = 64 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 5 bind(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(939), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = -1 EADDRINUSE (Address already in use) bind(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(940), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 6 bind(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(0), sin_addr=inet_addr("0.0.0.0")}, 16) = 0 connect(6, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(111), sin_addr=inet_addr("10.23.204.1")}, 16) = 0 write(6, "\200\0\0008i \25\301\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\1\206\240\0\0\0"..., 60) = 60 poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, 60000) = 1 read(6, "\200\0\0\34i \25\301\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 400) = 32 close(6) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="bigfoot", ...}) = 0 close(3) = 0 close(3) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[TRAP SEGV RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 mount("basil:/home", "/basil/home/", "nfs", MS_POSIXACL|MS_ACTIVE|MS_NOUSER|0xec0000, 0x51ba60) = -1 ENETDOWN (Network is down) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html