Re: Problem booting with ISA card

[Hemant Joshi <hemantj@ip.eth.net>]

Hi Marty,
Yesterday I repiled you that eb-4.7.20-ne.lzdsk did work.
Atleast that the software detected the network card properly and proceed
for DHCP.  From the system I could see that the DHCP could assign IP
address(192.0.0.9) to the system.Then the system could get Linux image (zImage)
from the DHCP server. But while it tried to mount the NFS from NFS server, it
said following :

IP-Config : No network devices available.
Root:-NFS : No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS : Can not open root device 02:00
Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00

And then no progress.
What could be the problem?

Please note that, I verified NFS server exporting required file system.
I did this by trying mounting the same file system on a desktop running
Linux. This showed that NFS export from the server is working properly.
The same Linux box I am using to try etherboot.. 

Is it that, I need to specifically change any setting while I export file
system from the NFS server. Currently on the NFS server , /etc/exports file
contains following :
/tftpboot/192.0.0.9      192.0.0.9(rw,no_root_squash)

I did verify that, the system where I am trying etherboot, gets the address
192.0.0.9 also mensioned in the exports file.

Thanks again,
Hemant


On Sat, 03 Mar 2001, Marty Connor wrote:
> On 3/3/2001 12:08 AM Hemant Joshi hemantj@ip.eth.net wrote:
> >I am using etherboot-4.5.6.
> >I followed all the steps to try with floppy. I could make a boot floppy using
> >following command
> >cat floppyload.bin.pre bin32/ne.lzrom > /dev/fd0
> >After I inserted the floppy into a PC-LInux box, the system started accessing
> >floppy. But apart from just showing different CPU-registers again and again,
> >it did not do anything. 
> 
> This usually indicates that the floppy/drive has a problem.  I suggest 
> you do a thorough formatting of thed floppy and try again, or use another 
> floppy, possibly one that is DOS preformatted.
> 
> Also, you mentioned you are using Etherboot 4.5.6, which is quite old.  
> Try making a floppy image on:
> 
>    http://rom-o-matic.net
> 
> and do:
> 
>    cat eb-4.7.20-ne.lzdsk > /dev/fd0
> 
> Which should create a bootable floppy.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marty
> 
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