[Debian-au] Re: Problems with NFS-mounted root

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday, 17 July 2003 at 14:13:23 +0930, Adam Hawes wrote:
>> Ethereal shows that the kernel doesn't even try to access the NFS
>> server: there's no traffic at all after the kernel finishes loading.
>> I'm guessing that it has to be either an error in the grub config file
>> or in the kernel configuration.  Both are derived from a description
>> at http://bogmog.sourceforge.net/document_show.php3?doc_id=36.
>
> Forgive me for stating the obvious (again), but it sounds like your
> network drivers aren't loading into the kernel.  Are they compiled into
> the kernel or as modules?

They're compiled in.

> I'd hazard a guess that they need to be compiled into the kernel if
> the root (and hence modules) path is on a NFS share.  Can you see
> any messages relating to the network during bootup?

Yes.  The NIC is found and identified in some detail.  Sorry for not
printing the exact message, but it scrolls past, and there's no way to
get it back.  About the only thing it doesn't report is an IP address,
but I don't recall any difference from this (from another machine with
the same kind of NIC).

   00:0a.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xe400. Vers LK1.1.16
    00:50:da:cf:17:d3, IRQ 12
     product code 4242 rev 00.13 date 12-30-99
     Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
     8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
     MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
     Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
   00:0a.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled

Greg
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