Subject: Re: netboot hangs at nfs_boot
To: <>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-amd64
Date: 02/09/2006 09:19:27
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:16:28PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:54:55PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:14:05AM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > > Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
> > > > Maybe it has interrupt problems and does not notice the answers?
> > > 
> > > Would this not factor in when it's pxebooting (as that works fine)?
> > 
> > No. Interupt problems as in "kernel gets interupt routing wrong" - 
> > pxe booting uses BIOS calls, I think.
> 
> But the errors are with the kernel trying to mount root...

Exactly. Pxeboot uses bios: works. Kernel uses its own interupt routing: 
fails.

	-is