I suspect some kind of timing problem, where the network interface hasn't come up yet at the time the portmap request is made. What does your nfsroot kernel option look like? What happens if you add ",port=2049" to the end of your nfsroot kernel option? -- 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