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>I have several diskless linux machines that I boot off a kernel floppy >disk. dd if=bzImage of=/dev/fd0; rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/boot255 > >Everything works fine with 2.0.34 but fails strangely under 2.1.108. >The kernel loads fine, finds it's network information from the bootp >server, then begins to timeout with rpc error messages from the nfs >server. lockd complains and it says no response from local portmapper. >Eventually it will boot, but takes about 20mins with all the timeouts. >It seems to lockup and require a hard reboot shortly after it becomes >'usable'. Make sure rpc.portmap is running on Your clients ! You can also add the 'nolock' mount option for the nfs filesystems. I think then it doesn't require rpc.portmap. Hope this helps ! -- David Balazic , student E-mail : 1stein@writeme.com | living in sLOVEnija home page: http://surf.to/stein Computer: Amiga 1200 + Quantum LPS-340AT -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||
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