I am having a problem with NFS mounting the root filesystem. It seems that init is not being executed. However, the problem may be with rootpath not being set. Should that parameter be set from the kernel command nfsroot=?
## Booting image at 00400000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.4.19-pre6 Created: 2002-12-06 17:44:09 UTC Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 901003 Bytes = 879 kB = 0 MB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK id mach(): done MMU:enter MMU:hw init MMU:mapin MMU:mapin_ram done MMU:setio MMU:exit setup_arch: enter setup_arch: bootmem arch: exit Linux version 2.4.19-pre6 (cpagnotta at lb-deviant-linux) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010 319 (prerelease/franzo/20011204)) #8 Fri Dec 6 09:28:29 PST 2002 On node 0 totalpages: 32768 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28672 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/powerpc-rootfs ip=172.25.59 .11:172.25.59.15::255.255.0.0:vib::off Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS Memory: 127092k available (1524k kernel code, 676k data, 212k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd devfs: v1.12 (20020219) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de). JFFS2 version 2.1. (C) 2001 Red Hat, Inc., designed by Axis Communications AB. i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module i2c-core.o: driver i2c-dev dummy driver registered. i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010825) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en abled ttyS00 at 0xef600300 (irq = 0) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0xef600400 (irq = 1) is a 16550A ttyS02 at 0xf4100000 (irq = 26) is a ST16650V2 ttyS03 at 0xf4200000 (irq = 26) is a ST16650V2 PPC 405 watchdog driver v0.5 IBM gpio driver version 02.01.21.d GPIO #0 at 0xc900d700 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) eth0: Phy @ 0x1, type LXT971A (0x001378e2) pcnet32.c:v1.27a 10.02.2002 tsbogend at alpha.franken.de Equalizer1996: $Revision: 1.2.1 $ $Date: 1996/09/22 13:52:00 $ Simon Janes (simo n at ncm.com) Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.4 (C)1999-2001 Maxim Krasnyansky NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.85 $, nftlmount.c $Revision: 1.25 $ NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192) IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver Reset ethernet interfaces eth0: IBM EMAC: link up, 10 Mbps Half Duplex, auto-negotiation complete. eth0: IBM EMAC: MAC 00:60:c2:0a:00:1f. eth0: IBM EMAC: open completed IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=172.25.59.11, mask=255.255.0.0, gw=255.255.255.255, host=vib, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=172.25.59.15, rootserver=172.25.59.15, rootpath= ip_conntrack (1024 buckets, 8192 max) ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 172.25.59.15 Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 172.25.59.15 VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k init Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..<NULL> ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/