Hi, I have two mvme2604 boards that are up and running with root mounted NFS using Gabriel's patches against 2.2.12 kernel. The boot messages for the boards always report " VFS: Mounted root (NFS filesystem) read-only". Not knowing NFS that well, is there a way I can change it so the boards mount the file system as read/write? I do have the nfs sever /etc/exports file set for " /tftpboot/192.168.1.5 vme(rw, no_root_squash)" read/write as I understand it. Might be a stupid question but I need to be enlightened.
With this same set up I have been playing with Gabriel's patches against 2.4-test series kernels and I usually get the following result from the boot messages: kmem_create: Forcing size alignment - nfs_fh VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 08:01 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01 Rebooting in 180 seconds I'm passing the root=/tftpboot/<IP address> in on the "Load:" line. This works just fine for the 2.2.12 Gabriel patched kernels. The NFS server is an intel running a fresh 2.2.17 kernel that I built, it's not running the provided Redhat patched kernels. Is this an NFS compatibility problem between the 2.4 series kernels and the 2.2 series???? I'm at a loss??? Thanks John ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
