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Re: Root-NFS: No NFS Server available...



>"Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up."
>"VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy."

Somehow your server is not serving or the client is not connecting. Check
the logs. Portmap running? Client permitted in /etc/hosts.allow?

>Also, after the network card is detected successfully,
>I receive this message:
>
>"IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration information."

Sounds like your bootpd or dhcpd doesn't provide all the info required.
Did you fill in all the fields?

>Does this have anything to do with the problem?

Could well be.

>Where does the kernel know to look for the NFS server anyhow?

>From the attributes within the bootp/dhcp reply to the query made by
the kernel (yes, a second time, not by the boot ROM).

Fix the first problem encountered before dealing with the rest.
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