Chuck Lever wrote: OK, Ubuntu doesn't use NFSROOT (the kernel's implementation), it actually does a real mount in user space. So all the normal NFS and generic mount options ought to work. I didn't realize that. I wonder why, especially since it doesn't work. So they pack a copy of nfs-utils in their initrd? And I could maybe use v4 as the root? But if that's the case then I'm getting off topic for this list. Thanks for your help. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html