Hello, I have a general question regarding having a root file system mounted via NFS. Our system consists of a linux PC that acts as the NFS server and two embedded ppc boards running linux that mount their file systems via NFS. The problem is that the embedded boards boot much faster than the PC, and when they attempt to mount the root file system, the NFS server is not up yet. The embedded boards hang and it takes quite a long time before the watchdog timer reboots them. The next time round, they come up just fine. What I would like for them to do is keep trying until the NFS server appears and then continue to boot.
We are running DENX's ELDK 2.4.25 kernel on the ppc boards and I know that for some linux releases, one may add values for timeo and retrans on the boot command line in the NFSROOT= command. Can anyone tell me if they are valid for this release of the kernel? Or if there is another way to accomplish this? Thanks, -Randy Smith Software Engineer ImageMap, Inc.