I am trying to prepare a diskless box but am stuck at a point. After the kernel image is loaded on the DC and the initialization starts ('dmesg' runs okay), it can't mount the root over NFS. The screen-message concludes like this:-

VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or 00:FF
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:FF

I am using PCQLinux7.1 and have NFS running (and "exportfs -a" done) on the DHCP server. /var/lib/nfs/xtab is also synchronised. /tftpboot/<IP-of-DisklessClient>/etc/fstab has the top entry as follows:

<IP-of-server>:/tftpboot/<IP-of-disklessclient> / nfs defaults 0 0

and there are entries for /home, /usr and /opt as well. And one more entry of proc as retaind from the server's /etc/fstab. I have edited etc/sysconfig/network and etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 files pertaining to the DC.

Can anyone please help?

Regards,
Shantanu






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