Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030389AbWBAGPc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 01:15:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030402AbWBAGPc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 01:15:32 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:2746 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030389AbWBAGPb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 01:15:31 -0500 Subject: Re: [BUG] nfs version 2 broken From: Trond Myklebust To: Knut Petersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <43E05031.2000107@t-online.de> References: <43E05031.2000107@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:15:19 -0500 Message-Id: <1138774519.7861.4.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.309, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 1.50, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.05, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0.14, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 24 On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 07:07 +0100, Knut Petersen wrote: > Hi everybody, > > The good news is that I finally succeeded to boot over network > using the PXE-bootrom / ip dhcp autoconfig / nfsroot method. > But "ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=%s" is not the way to go > with recent kernels. This results in a kernel panic caused by > the inability to find root. Things go wrong immediately after > rpc port lookup: > > > NFS: Buggy server - nlink == 0! > > nfs_fhget failed What kind of server is this that you are using? The above message basically means that it is handing out inodes with a link count of 0. Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/