On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:45:29PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> Can anyone say what means this kernel error:
> cannot mount root, error = 49

rochebonne#/home/bouyer>grep 49 /usr/include/sys/errno.h 
#define EADDRNOTAVAIL   49              /* Can't assign requested address */

> 
> I just want to netboot diskless lpd-server, but kernel can't mount its
> root. I am using netboot.com compiled with
> USE_NETIF=3c509
> CPPFLAGS+= -DSUPPORT_RARP -DSUPPORT_BOOTPARAM
> CPPFLAGS+= -DSUPPORT_NFS -DNFS_NOSYMLINK
> 
> kernel config was DISKLESS - I only changed it for network card
> driver.
> 
> last part of dmesg is:
> biomask 0 netmask 400 ttymask 402
> boot device: ep0
> cannot mount root, error = 49
> root device (default ep0):

I assume you have the rigth bootparam server running ?
Do you have "options NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM" in the kernel config file ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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