Sorry for all of the questions, but now when I try to program the FPGA with
katcp is complains about a read-only file system.  /etc/exports declares it
rw, so I seem to be stuck again.

Thanks,
Dale




On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Gary, Dale E. <dale.e.g...@njit.edu> wrote:

> > Good luck!  I don't have any further ideas other than verifying that the
> root file system is mountable by
> > computers on the ROACH2 subnet.
>
> You are a genius!  I hadn't updated exportfs...  It is now booted!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Dale
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:39 PM, David MacMahon 
> <dav...@astro.berkeley.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi, Gary,
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Gary, Dale E. wrote:
>>
>> > Hmm, I was just trying to follow the instructions in the roach nfs
>> guide, which says to create a directory named etch to put the root file
>> system.  I probably renamed the directory to etch.  Will that matter?  It
>> is the correct file system--just a different directory name.
>>
>> It won't matter for the computer (a rose by any other name...), but it
>> might confuse humans! :-)
>>
>> > However, I fixed the problem with loading the wrong uImage, and it now
>> boots to the point where I get this output:
>> >
>> > Sending DHCP requests ., OK
>> > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 192.100.16.206, my address is
>> 192.168.24.121
>> > IP-Config: Complete:
>> >      device=eth0, addr=192.168.24.121, mask=255.255.255.0,
>> gw=192.168.24.1
>> >      host=roach1.solar.pvt, domain=solar.pvt solar.ovro.caltech.edu,
>> nis-domain=(none)
>> >      bootserver=192.100.16.206, rootserver=192.100.16.206,
>> rootpath=/srv/roach2_boot/etch
>> >      nameserver0=192.100.16.2, nameserver1=192.168.9.15
>> > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
>> > VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0): error -6
>> > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
>> partitions:
>> > 1f00            4096 mtdblock0  (driver?)
>> > 1f01           65536 mtdblock1  (driver?)
>> > 1f02           49152 mtdblock2  (driver?)
>> > 1f03           11264 mtdblock3  (driver?)
>> > 1f04             256 mtdblock4  (driver?)
>> > 1f05             512 mtdblock5  (driver?)
>> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
>> unknown-block(2,0)
>> > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>> >
>> > So indeed the file system may not be right.  Still working on it...
>>
>> Good luck!  I don't have any further ideas other than verifying that the
>> root file system is mountable by computers on the ROACH2 subnet.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>

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