Can you mount your exported / or /usr file system using another client?
are you sure NFS is working?

$ rpcinfo -p whisk

or from whisk itself,

$ rpcinfo -p localohost

-lava

Remember: NFS == Network Failure System

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Matt London wrote:

> Hi,
>   Odd problem here. Decided to move my SLC from netbooting from my linux
> box to my SS1 netbsd box. I copied everything over, setup rarpd,
> bootparams and nfs, then set the SLC on it's merry way. All looked fine
> till it came to mount it's root fs, when it stopped, seemingly doing
> another rarp lookup. The SLC is called spatula (192.168.1.19) and the SS1
> is whisk (192.168.1.6).
>
> kernel messages on whisk, (spatula) and [comments]
> [I set spatula booting]
> Oct 25 20:26:04 whisk rarpd[172]: received packet on le0
> Oct 25 20:26:04 whisk rarpd[172]: 08:00:20:03:0e:7d asked; spatula.matt replied
> Oct 25 20:26:05 whisk rpcbind: connect from 192.168.1.19 to getport/addr(nfs)
> Oct 25 20:26:05 whisk rpcbind: connect from 192.168.1.19 to
> getport/addr(mountd)Oct 25 20:26:07 whisk rarpd[172]: received packet on le0
> Oct 25 20:26:07 whisk rarpd[172]: 08:00:20:03:0e:7d asked; spatula.matt replied
> [spatula loads kernel over NFS]
> (nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam))
> (nfs_boot: client_addr=192.168.1.19 (RARP from 192.168.1.6))
> Oct 25 20:31:21 whisk rarpd[172]: received packet on le0
> Oct 25 20:31:21 whisk rarpd[172]: 08:00:20:03:0e:7d asked; spatula.matt
> replied
> (nfs_boot: timeout...)
> (nfs_boot: timeout...)
> (nfs_boot: timeout...)
> (nfs_boot: bootparam whoami, error=60)
> (no file system for le0)
> (cannot mount root, error = 79)
> [spatula stops booting and prompts for root device]
>
> Any ideas? I'm sure I've not changed anything since I had it booting from
> my linux box (but I've not got rarp and bootparams setup on that box
> anymore, making it hard to check if it's working)
>
> -- Matt
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