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hey friends,
i am trying remote booting with etherboot latest atable version, i compile kernel and also created floppy image for that using which i can remote boot from any other machine, i also configured DHCP,NFS and TFTP.
now when i remote boot, my client is getting TFTP that means my DHCP is working and also it is loading that kernel so that means my NFS and TFTP are also workign fine upto some level then i m getting error :
VFS: can not open root device "nfs" or 00:ff
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 00:ff
any solution for this ? is it really problem at the time of compilation ?
i m totally new bie and i even googled it so much but could not find any satisfactory solution,....
hope i will get it from here..
thanks for reading all and trying to help me.
tilak
autoconfiguration enabled?
Have you enabled "IP: kernel level autoconfiguration" (IP_PNP) and "Root file system on NFS" (ROOT_NFS) (which depends on NFS being builtin as well)?
After being loaded by the etherboot loader (which got some data via DHCP) the kernel has to complete the network information (something is passed via the command line IIRC) and to autoconfigure itself. Also for NFS mounting normally you need a living system with a mounted root filesystem, thus the special nfs-root-option.