Re: Root-Over NFS Diskless booting

[Robert Siemer]

From: Michael Taylor <address@hidden>

> It will start booting the 2.4.9 kernel, but when it comes time to mount
> the / filesystem i get this error.
> 
> RPC Call returned error 101
> Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number, using default
> NFS Server returned error -101 while mounting /

I don't think this is related to GRUB.

> There is a little more output than that, but it is not relevant. My
> NFS server shows nothing in the logs anywhere of the attempt to
> mount a share off of it.

First, there are two errors. [-:  The kernel can't reach the
portmapper (to get the port of nfsd) and even on the default port it
had no luck.

Is the portmapper running? What are /etc/hosts.* saying? Maybe
portmapper not allowed to answer. If everything looks okay, double
check with a NETWORK MONITOR like tcpdump or ethereal. What is the
netbook client requesting and what is the answer??

I know two packages for booting via network "netboot" and
"etherboot(?)". Even if you don't use them, there mailing lists
archives, websites and FAQs could be a better help in this case (even
if it is out of their role, too...)


Regards,
                Robert