Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 10:42:53PM -0300, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > > I now crash right here. The last good lines are > > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed > > Undable to handle kernel paging request at vritual address 14d58d54 > > printing eip

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
> I now crash right here. The last good lines are > VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) > Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed > Undable to handle kernel paging request at vritual address 14d58d54 > printing eip: > [ gooblehoo ... ] > > Ans you're right -- that is exactly where 2.2.2

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 08:54:15PM -0300, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > This is a bit confusing. This is neither a fail-to-mount-root panic nor a > cant-find-init panic, it's an Ooops, a processing error within the kernel. Right. And fiddling some more, I actually get a little further: > The partitio

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
> > I presume you're getting a can't find init message or a panic about > > the root device. > > Something like that. Retyping from the screen next to me: > > All well until including to > > hda: ... > hdb: ... > Uniform CD-ROM driver Rev > Partition check: > hda: > > and the trouble starts o

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:02:46PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > > To point out the obvious... > > are you sure you flipped the kernel-autoconfig bit in networking and > > the allow nfsroot bit (somewhere else I forget, probably network > file systems) Yes, I checked that: CONFIG_IP_PNP

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
To point out the obvious... are you sure you flipped the kernel-autoconfig bit in networking and the allow nfsroot bit (somewhere else I forget, probably network file systems) have the right NIC driver builtin to the boot kernel I presume you're getting a can't find init message or a panic a

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 02:32:10PM -0300, Jorge L. deLyra wrote: > > I going nuts here. In June, I set up a scheme to have an old PC boot from a > > local image (floppy and/or hd) and run of a nfs-root partition on my > > server. Works very well with 2.2.20, and I replicated it with 2.2.21. > > >

Re: nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Jorge L. deLyra
> I going nuts here. In June, I set up a scheme to have an old PC boot from a > local image (floppy and/or hd) and run of a nfs-root partition on my > server. Works very well with 2.2.20, and I replicated it with 2.2.21. > > But for the life of me, I cannot get it to work with 2.4.19. Neither the

nfs-root booting works for 2.2.* client, but not 2.4.19

2002-09-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I going nuts here. In June, I set up a scheme to have an old PC boot from a local image (floppy and/or hd) and run of a nfs-root partition on my server. Works very well with 2.2.20, and I replicated it with 2.2.21. But for the life of me, I cannot get it to work with 2.4.19. Neither the stock k