Subject: Re: Info on booting a MV3800 via MOPD, Bootpd, and nfs
To: Dale Offret Jr. <dale@svwy.net>
From: Anders Hjalmarsson <hjalmar@as2-3-7.an.g.bonet.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/06/2001 21:35:04
> Trying BOOTP
> Using IP address: 172.16.100.218
> myip: (172.16.100.218)
> root addr=172.16.100.10 path=/ <--- here is the problem
> nfs_open: must mount first.
> Boot failed: Device not configured
>
> Date host mountd[146]: mount request denied from 172.16.100.218 for /
>
You have not specified which directory on the server is to be mounted as
root. You need to add something like
option root-path "the directory one the where the root fs for the vax is";
to dhcpd.conf or
rp=that directory
to bootptab depending on which you use.
-hjalmar