My problem was that upon mounting, NFS wanted to see a name for the board (not sure why it needed this when mounting by IP address - just one of those things, I guess). Adding this line to /etc/hosts fixed my problem:
10.1.100.111 rpxlite (where 10.1.100.111 is the IP address of the board) Cheers, Laura --- Laura Dean <tralad at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Well, rebooting fixed the problem with trying to > mount > the wrong directory, maybe I should use DHCP Beta > 3.0 > but I was having problems getting that one to work > earlier... > > Yes, I assume I have something configured wrong on > my > NFS server but I can't figure out what it could be, > especially since I can mount the directories from > other Linux PCs on the network. > > Someone suggested that I should take out the nis > entrys in my nsswitch.conf file (which I did) and > maybe that would make it work (which it didn't). > > I've also noticed a new behavior which might > indicate > something to someone smarter than me - after the > board > tries to mount the NFS server, showmount no longer > returns a response. I restart the NFS server (and > unplug the board), and showmount shows that > 10.1.100.111 (the IP of the board) is mounted. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Laura > > --- Dan Malek <dan at mvista.com> wrote: > > Laura Dean wrote: > > > > > I expect this on the kernel I built from source, > > but I > > > was expecting the Hard Hat kernel to be mounting > > > /opt/hardhat/devkit/ppc/8xx/target. I assumed > the > > > "option root-path" line in dhcpd.conf configured > > this. > > > > Version 2.0 DHCP doesn't work properly with some > > BOOTP > > clients, in particular when providing this > > "extended" > > type of information. I suspect this may be the > > problem, and suggest you check out isc.org for > > information. > > > > I personally run Beta 3.0. > > > > It still looks like you may have some NFS related > > configuration problems on the server, too. > > > > Oh yeah, NFS root works fine, whether you > recompile > > or > > use the ready made kernels. > > > > -- Dan > > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
