Harald Milz wrote: > Hi, > > I recycled an embedded board with a Cyrix GXm CPU for a diskless X > terminal. Had to build an etherboot image for the RTL8139 card and patch it > into the BIOS because the original BIOS only supports Netware boot. So > what. > > Now the /usr filesystem is mounted from my file server (mainly for the X > server). When the start script (there is only one, for speed reasons) tries > to mount /usr like > > mount -t nfs -o ro,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard,intr 192.168.20.1:/usr /usr > > it takes about 5 minutes until the mount command returns. In my server's > syslog, /usr appears to have been mounted by the client immediately. > > After a while, an error message comes up on the client > > portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out. > > There is no portmap running on the client (why should it)... Have you tried with portmap? Or use mount -o nolock. > > The kernel gets all its data from the DHCP server via autoconfig (even the > root dir which is mounted via NFS too) > > rsize, wsize aren't the problem. Same happens without these options. > > What am I doing wrong? Ah yes, the NFSd is the userspace daemon. I also > tried knfsd for NFS3 over TCP but that didn't work. Gave up very soon. > Heinrich Rebehn =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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