> 7) If your HP sticks halfway through boot trying to write to the NFS system:
> this is a symptom of using Linux as an NFS server. Linux NFS can't cope
> with 8K write requests, which are fragmented across several packets. The
> solution is to remount the root filesystem to use 1K blocks, by putting
> the following line near the top of the HP's /etc/rc :
> 
> # Very first thing to do is remount root with sensible values
> # for using Linux as an NFS server:
> mount -t nfs -a -o -I=1024,-r=1024,-w=1024 dram:/export/hp/root/ /

This doesn't seem to be the problem (at least not yet).

We can mount from the Linux to the HP (and Linux->Linux), but we can't
write to it. Even though mount reports that the fs is mounted read/write,
we can't. This happens on the Linux machine also.


David